The Odisha government has decided to increase the Covid-19 testing capacity to 15,000 a day, according to an official here on Tuesday. ...
The over month-long curfew in Punjab to contain coronavirus has brought the state's economic activity to a grinding halt, a state task force report said on Tuesday....
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Tuesday that four more persons have tested positive for novel coronavirus in the state, taking the total number of people presently undergoing treatment to 123....
he Kerala government suffered a setback on Tuesday when the High Court stayed for two months the former's decision to deduct six-day salary of all its employees in the next five months as a temporary measure....
Urban slums are uniquely vulnerable to coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, say researchers, adding that to help such people, governments should focus on providing basic needs, including freshwater, sanitation and providing payments for lost work....
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has alleged that the government hid the names of top 50 wilful defaulters in Parliament. He said that on March 16 he had asked the Finance Minister in the Lok Sabha for the list but was denied by the government....
Even as researchers at Oxford University have begun testing their potential vaccine against COVID-19 on a small group of human volunteers, they hope to expand the tests soon after getting positive results from the initial trial....
Mizoram would soon be the sixth COVID-19- free state out of the eight states in northeast India as the state's lone corona patient tested negative while after five days, a fresh positive case was found in Assam, Minister and officials said on Tuesday....
Karnataka lifted more restrictions from the extended lockdown in 14 'green' districts, which are free from the coronavirus spread, to mitigate hardships of the people, a top official said on Tuesday. ...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday approved a $1.5 billion loan to the Government of India to help fund its response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic....
