India

New Delhi: The Centre has launched an online portal to track the movement of migrant workers in the country during the lockdown. Informing of the launch of National Migrant Information...

Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday announced extension of COVID-19 lockdown till May 31. "The calibrated phase-wise relaxation/lifting of lockdown orders will be notified in due course," an...

New Delhi: The Centre will soon launch PM eVIDYA programme to improve the accessibility to education through technology amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the flagship initiative, the focus will be...

New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday announced that the government will allocate an additional Rs 40,000 crore for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA)...

New Delhi: Mathematical modelling studies suggest containing the deadly coronavirus might be possible. However, its success “cannot be guaranteed” since there is efficient human to human transmission, the Union Health...

New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday announced the fifth and final tranche of the Rs 20 lakh crore stimulus package to offset the coronavirus effect on the...

New Delhi: The country’s COVID-19 tally crossed 90,000-mark on Saturday with the biggest single-day spike of 4,987 new cases, the health ministry said on Saturday. Maharashtra continued to be the...

Cyclones and hurricanes that create havoc and destruction and even those that don’t, are often given peculiar names like ‘Fani’, ‘Titli’, ‘Laila’, ‘Helen’ etc. The names have always been amusing...

New Delhi: Even as cyclone Amphan moves towards the east coast of the country, the onset of southwest monsoon in Kerala has been delayed by four days. According to the...

Mumbai: The nationwide lockdown, enforced by the government to check the spread of Covid-19, has hurt the cinema theatres big time. Multiplex chain PVR Pictures made no bones about their...