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A medic wearing a PPE collects samples for COVID19 testing at kalasipalya police station in Bengaluru. PTI photo

Source of infection in Bengaluru covid cases remains a mystery

The state continues to test more than 15,000 samples every day and has 9,406 active cases

3 July 2020 1:18 PM IST

An ICMR team conducts surveillance in the view of COVID-19 outbreak at Balapur in Hyderabad. PTI photo

ICMR revises home quarantine guidelines, includes asymptomatic...

However, immuno compromised patients (included HIV, transplant recipients, cancer therapy) are not eligible for home...

3 July 2020 12:56 PM IST

A health worker checks the body temperature of a baby in Mumbai. (PTI)

Coronavirus cases keep soaring in India as daily tally crosses 20K...

The country recorded 20,903 coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours.

3 July 2020 11:39 AM IST

File photo of chief justice of Andhra Pradesh Jitendra Kumar Maheswari with governor Biswa Bhushan Harichandan.- DC Photo

Chief Justice of AP monitors treatment of 26 judicial staff who tested...

Judicial staff told to be like frontline workers in combating COVID-19

3 July 2020 10:52 AM IST

PM along with CDS Bipin Rawat and Indian Army chief MM Naravane at Leh. (ANI)

PM Modi to jawans in Ladakh: India in safe hands, your bravery is...

Modi reached Leh around 9.30 am.

3 July 2020 10:52 AM IST

A medic hekps her colleague wear a PPE suit before collecting samples for COVID-19 testing at Halasuru gate traffic station in Bengluru. PTI photo

Karnataka model collapses as COVID-19 tally mounts

In Yadgir, a body was being dragged in an agricultural land, in Hospet, a body was transported on bicycle

3 July 2020 10:49 AM IST

PM Narendra Modi and President Vladmir Putin (PTI)

PM dials Vladimir Putin, congratulates him on winning constitutional...

MEA spokesman Anurag Srivastava did not give a direct answer when asked if the Sino-Indian border situation had been...

3 July 2020 3:23 AM IST

Kerala now faces an uphill task. (DC photo)

Kochi tightens curbs after community transmission of cases goes up

Kochi residents told not to step out unless during emergencies

3 July 2020 1:46 AM IST

file photo of a MiG-29 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force. Indias Defence Ministry on July 2, 2020, gave its approval for the IAF to speedily procure 21 MiG-29 fighter jets besides 12 Sukhoi MKis from Russia. (PTI)

Don-'t ask why: India to buy fighter jets, missiles, weapons worth Rs...

The Defence Ministry-'s highest procurement body greenlights a huge shopping list

2 July 2020 11:36 PM IST

Earth movers lie idle at a coal mine in Dhanbad as Indias coal workers began a strike on July 2, 2020, to oppose the central governments decision to open up the countrys coal sector to privatisation. Prime minister Narendra Modi recently launched the auction process to hawk 41 coal mines for commercial mining. (PTI)

Have you noticed? Half a million coal workers are on strike

India-'s miners are opposed to the auction of coal blocks to private players

2 July 2020 10:17 PM IST

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. (PTI Photo)

Delhi sets up plasma bank for coronavirus treatment; Kejriwal seeks...

The government has set up the plasma bank at the state-run Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS).

2 July 2020 5:04 PM IST

Telangana High Court. (DC Photo)

Telangana High Court dissatisfied with KCR government report on...

The bench also said it would summon the chief secretary and other officials to appear before it personally if the report...

2 July 2020 4:16 PM IST