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Former Australia cricket captain Steve Smith (L) and teammate David Warner. AFP Photo

Steve Smith serves out two-year ban, becomes eligible for captaincy...

His Australian teammate David Warner remains under a career-long leadership ban

29 March 2020 9:30 AM IST

$A traveller looks up near a decoration with the slon \Remember your mission\ at a train station in Beijing. AP Photo$ World

Covid19: Imported cases rise in China, five new fatalities reported

The five new fatalities were all reported from the epicentre Hubei province, taking the death toll to 3,300

29 March 2020 9:24 AM IST

Migrant workers line up outside the Anand Vihar bus terminal in New Delhi to leave for their villages in the wake of the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown announced by prime minister Narendra Modi. On March 28, tens of thousands of migrant workers fought and shoved their way onto buses organised by Uttar Pradesh to go to their home towns. (AFP)

Why PM Modi should make a call to Naveen Patnaik

The Odisha CM would have some valuable insights on how to plan for a disaster

29 March 2020 8:35 AM IST

An Indian migrant workers family is silhouetted as they make the journey to their village by foot, following a coronavirus lockdown in New Delhi, India on March 28, 2020. Authorities sent a fleet of buses to the outskirts of New Delhi to meet an exodus of migrant workers desperately trying to reach their home villages during the worlds largest coronavirus lockdown. Thousands of people, mostly young male day laborers but also families, fled their New Delhi homes after prime minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day lockdown that began on Wednesday and effectively put millions of Indians who live off daily earnings out of work. (AP)

Testing key to lockdown's success, as fear of starvation looms

What will happen when the state apparatus needs to act beyond its capacity to cater to lakhs and crores of infected?

29 March 2020 7:23 AM IST

Police and paramilitary soldiers stand guard on a road leading to the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital in Srinagar, where most patients with symptoms of COVID-19 are being kept in quarantine. (AP)

26 Covid-19 suspects flee after quarantine riot at Srinagar hospital

They are retraced and brought back but one doctor loses her job for negligence

28 March 2020 11:46 PM IST

Sira residents maintain social distance in the aftermath of the death of a resident due to COVID-19 infection.

Home town of corona victim locked down

Nineteen members of dead man's family put under observation

28 March 2020 10:14 PM IST

These villagers of Markhal in Karnataka are camping in the forests of Charmadi Ghat in Mudigere in Chikkamagaluru district to stay out of reach of Covid-19.

Quarantine in the lap of nature: Villagers camp in forest to elude...

There's been an influx of city people into villages in recent days

28 March 2020 9:18 PM IST

The meet on February 1-2 to attend the Programming Committee will be the first meeting of the SAARC member states since the postponement of the 19th SAARC that was supposed to take place in Islamabad November last year, a Foreign Ministry official said. (Representational Image)

India proposes information exchange over Covid19 amongst SAARC...

India proporsed that a network of experts representing Health Services may set up on whatsapp to enable exchange of...

28 March 2020 8:49 PM IST

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan (centre) (PTI)

Cops file FIR on fake message quoting Shivraj Chouhan

The fake message quoted the chief minister as saying lockdown violators would be shot

28 March 2020 8:42 PM IST

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. (PTI)

Nitish has not one but three crises coming up

There's the coronavirus, return of thousands of workers and the early arrival of brain fever

28 March 2020 8:08 PM IST

Former India all-rounder Suresh Raina. DC File Photo

Suresh Raina donates Rs 52 lakh for fight against Covid19 pandemic

Former India all-rounder's contribution is biggest from any Indian sportsperson across disciplines

28 March 2020 8:03 PM IST

Workers prepare a quarantine centre at the Sarusojai Sports Complex in Guwahati on March 28, 2020. (AP)

India's COVID-19 cases reach 918: Latest data

However, 79 of them have been cured while there have been 19 deaths so far

28 March 2020 7:41 PM IST