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Stranded migrants board a truck to reach their native places in Uttar Pradesh, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, at Bakania bypass in Bhopa. PTI Photo

India

Despite Covid-19 risk, migrant labourers prefer trucks to Shramik...

The migrants find trucks and tempos convenient, mostly because they drop them close to their home.

16 May 2020 1:17 PM IST

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the Brady press briefing room of the White House. (AP Photo)

India

Covid-19 crisis: Donald Trump says US will donate ventilators to India

Trump said Indian-Americans were "great" scientists and researchers, who were contributing to the development of the...

16 May 2020 11:19 AM IST

487 police personnel have tested positive for COVID-19 since the lockdown. (PTI Photo)

India

Coronavirus cases in India near 86K mark; 2752 fatalities so far

Of the 2,752 fatalities, Maharashtra tops the tally with 1,068 deaths

16 May 2020 10:32 AM IST

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee wearing a mask is seen in her car during the nationwide lockdown, in wake of the coronavirus pandemic, in Kolkata. (PTI)

India

Mamata government discloses letters proving readiness to receive Vande...

The move came a day after the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) reacted to Bengal education minister's tweet.

15 May 2020 5:33 PM IST

$Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar has said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had proposed \working together\, but he rejected the offer. (Photo: File)$ India

Sharad Pawar writes to PM Modi, seeks urgent bail out for sugarcane...

Pawar sought the prime minister's "urgent intervention" to bail the industry out from the crisis now aggravated by the...

15 May 2020 3:55 PM IST

India

Supreme Court directs Centre to appraise it about quarantine...

A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and B R Gavai took up the matter through video conferencing.

15 May 2020 2:51 PM IST

India

Uttarakhand: 'Ghost villages' turn into quarantine centres for...

Poor infrastructure, difficult living conditions and lack of employment have been cited as the reasons such abandoned...

15 May 2020 1:56 PM IST

People, sitting in marked circles to respect social distancing norms, wait to collect free ration from a government shop, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown in Mathura. PTI Photo

India

Covid-19: India must gear up for possible community transmission, say...

More transmission possible due to easing of the lockdown, say experts

15 May 2020 1:24 PM IST

Covid19 hit South Asia very hard, worst economic performance in 40 years says World Bank. (PTI Photo)

India

World Bank clears $1 billion for India's fight against coronavirus

This takes the total commitment from the World Bank towards emergency COVID-19 response in India to $2 billion.

15 May 2020 12:16 PM IST

In this March 2020 photo provided by Gilead Sciences, rubber stoppers are placed onto filled vials of the investigational drug remdesivir at a Gilead manufacturing site in the United States. Given through an IV, the medication is designed to interfere with an enzyme that reproduces viral genetic material. (Photo | AP)

India

Health groups want India to rescind Gilead drug patents

Advocacy groups want remdesivir to be distributed more fairly to coronavirus patients around the world.

15 May 2020 11:46 AM IST

Migrants arriving from Andhra Pradesh undergo thermal screening after deboarding a train at Danapur railway station, during the ongoing COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, in Patna. PTI Photo

India

Covid-19 cases stand at 81,970; 2649 people dead across India

The number of active cases stood at 51,401 while 27,919 people have recovered and one patient has migrated.

15 May 2020 11:04 AM IST

The trees have practically shed their leaves. (Photo: AFP)

Life

More forest cover, less pandemic incidents: Madhya Pradesh study

The study has been conducted by the Madhya Pradesh forest department.

15 May 2020 10:33 AM IST