Coronavirus

Lucknow: Bollywood singer Kanika Kapoor finally tested negative for COVID-19 on Sunday. This is her fifth test. She will have to stay at the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of...

New Delhi: Coronavirus cases in India are doubling every 4.1 days, informed Lav Agarwal, joint secretary of the Union health ministry, on Sunday. The rate of doubling would have been...

Bhubaneswar: To check the spread of novel coronavirus, Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Police Commissioner Sudhanshu Sarangi on Sunday warned traders of licence cancellation if they failed to maintain social-distancing norms outside the shops...

Cuttack: The Commissionerate Police on Sunday arrested 25 persons for the attack on policemen at Kesharpur here during the shutdown period. Informing this, Cuttack DCP Akhileswar Singh said that the...

New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has appealed to the people not to consume and spit smokeless tobacco in public places. According to the country's leading health...

Berhampur: To check the spread of COVID-19, Ganjam collector Vijay Amruta Kulange on Sunday directed people in the district to wear mask or at least tie a handkerchief or scarf...

Moulana Yusuf Tootla, a South African Muslim cleric who returned home recently after attending the Nizamuddin congregation last month, has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, his family members have said....

Berhampur: The Ganjam administration on Sunday sealed Matia Sahi village under Baghalati panchayat in the district. Ganjam collector Vijay Amruta Kulange said that over 130 people from Bomikhal in Bhubaneswar,...

New Delhi: A team of scientists from IIT Kanpur is trying to develop a protective coating that will help in making medicated masks for battling COVID-19. The coating will be...

Bhubaneswar: In view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to switch off lights and ignite lamps for 9 minutes at 9pm on Sunday as a sign of solidarity in the...