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A Chennai municipal worker drives a coronavirus-themed autorickshaw in a residential area after the government eased lockdown restrictions. (AFP)

Violators in Tamil Nadu to be sent to institutional quarantine

The overall Covid-19 statistics for Tamil Nadu continued to be on a steep upward curve on all key parameters on...

5 Jun 2020 11:40 AM IST

5 Tablighi Jamaat attendees arrested for failing to declare themselves. (PTI Photo)

Home Ministry blacklists 2,550 foreign Tablighi Jamaat members for...

The MHA has banned their entry into India for 10 years.

5 Jun 2020 10:47 AM IST

Sanitation staff disinfect a classroom at the Osmania Medical College in Hyderabad where a number of medical profesionals have tested positive for COVID-19. (DC Photo: PS)

COVID-19 explodes among doctors in Hyderabad

No less than 48 doctors and post-graduate students have tested corona positive this week

5 Jun 2020 8:22 AM IST

Border Security Force personnel disinfect themselves on their return after patrolling, during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Ahmedabad. PTI photo

India likely to overtake Italy in COVID-19 tally

For the first time, over 9,000 COVID-19 cases and over 250 deaths were reported in India in a single day

4 Jun 2020 10:48 PM IST

The elephants death has given rise to a communal debate.

Communal colour added to pregnant elephant's death in Kerala

Maneka Gandhi's tweet triggers controversy

4 Jun 2020 7:00 PM IST

Information and Broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar (PTI)

Feeding firecrackers and killing not our culture: Javadekar on Kerala...

The elephant died at Velliyar River on May 27.

4 Jun 2020 3:05 PM IST

Dr Harsh Vardhan (Photo: File)

Health ministry issues office memorandum on COVID-19 for its staff...

The ministry also advised discouraging the entry of visitors into the office complex.

4 Jun 2020 12:52 PM IST

Alibaug faced the brunt of the cyclone. (PTI)

Cyclone Nisarga now a depression over Vidarbha; IMD says it will...

Mumbaikars heaved a sigh of relief as the cyclone's damage appeared limited.

4 Jun 2020 12:16 PM IST

Health workers call out to people to check their body temperatures in Dharavi slums, Mumbai. PTI photo

India sees record single day spike in Coronavirus cases

India stands seventh among the nations worst hit by the COVID-19 pandemic after the US, Brazil, Russia, the UK, Spain...

4 Jun 2020 11:10 AM IST

Exactly six months ago, on August 5, 2019, with the stated purpose of fully integrating Jammu and Kashmir into the Indian mainstream, the Narendra Modi government ended the states autonomy and broke it up into two Union territories of J&K and Ladakh. (Representational | PTI)

IAF building emergency air strip in Anantnag

On completion, it will serve as an alternate runway facility for fighter jets in case of any emergency.

4 Jun 2020 10:17 AM IST

A volunteer distributes food packets to guest workers at Kanyakumari station. (PTI)

Chennai records 1000 new COVID-19 cases in a day

The total coronavirus cases tally in the state stands at 25,872.

4 Jun 2020 9:41 AM IST

The Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad

17 medics at Hyderabad's NIMS hospital test positive for coronavirus

In all, 25 doctors at government hospitals in Hyderabad now carry the virus

4 Jun 2020 8:22 AM IST