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Social media image posted by the Congress party showing Rahul Gandhi addressing a press conference by video link on April 16, 2020.

Lockdown not enough, test more, says Rahul

Lockdown is just a pause but not a solution, says Cong leader

17 April 2020 10:12 AM IST

Representational Image, PTI.

UP reopens few sectors for production even as virus cases surge past...

Uttar Pradesh has so far reported 13 fatalities due to coronavirus in the state

17 April 2020 10:02 AM IST

Income Tax department officials conduct raid in New Delhi. (PTI File Photo)

Centre sets big Income Tax targets despite tense economic situation

The target for corporate tax set at Rs 6.81 lakh crore, personal I-T Rs 6.25 lakh crore and security transaction tax Rs...

17 April 2020 9:38 AM IST

Devotees gathered at Siddeshwara chariot fest despite prohibitory orders at Ravoor village in Kalaburagi on Thursday.

Devotees throng chariot festival in Kalaburagi despite restrictions

Temple committee claim the organisers were taken aback by the behaviour of the devotees

17 April 2020 9:35 AM IST

Greater Chennai Corporation workers spray disinfectant inside a temporary set-up of 500 beds to quarantine coronavirus patients at the Chennai Trade Centre in Nandambakkam, Chennai. (PTI)

Dip in new cases makes Tamil Nadu chief minister highly optimistic

New coronapositive cases drop to 25 but state among the top three in India

17 April 2020 8:25 AM IST

migrant labourers stuck in the city during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, gather to demand transportation to go back to their homes, in Surat. (AFP)

Karnataka stares at Mumbai-like migrant labour situation

With the lockdown extension, labourers want to return home and are asking the government to make arrangements for their...

16 April 2020 5:01 PM IST

Indian municipal workers disinfect an area during lockdown to prevent the spread of new coronavirus . (AP)

Karnataka issues advisory for celebrating Ramzan

Public gathering including religious meetings and community cookings are banned

16 April 2020 4:29 PM IST

Medics during a door-to-door examination of COVID-19 amid a nationwide lockdown imposed in the wake of coronavirus pandemic in Jaipur. PTI photo

Lockdown cannot defeat virus, testing is biggest weapon: Rahul Gandhi

Ongoing nationwide lockdown is like a pause button and not a solution to defeat the virus, says Congress leader

16 April 2020 4:12 PM IST

Members of the Muslim community offer prayers outside a closed mosque during a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus, in Srinagar. PTI photo

Waqf boards told to implement strict social distancing during Ramzan

More than seven lakh registered mosques, eidgahs, imambadas, dargahs and other religious, social institutions come under...

16 April 2020 3:39 PM IST

A policeman chases away a man from a coronanvirus hot-spot in Tippu Nagar on Mysore road in Bengaluru. (DC Photo: Satish B)

Corona surge in Karnataka: 34 cases in one day, 17 from Belagavi alone

Highest number of new cases since March 8

16 April 2020 3:34 PM IST

Mahim Dharavi Medical Practitioners Association conducts a thermal screening of residents of Shastri Nagar during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, at Dharavi in Mumbai. PTI photo

Dharavi covid numbers surge, 71 virus cases so far

So far, eight patients from Dharavi have died

16 April 2020 2:32 PM IST

Bengaluru police and health officials garding Tippu Nagar on Mysore road where a senior citizen passed away with Corona positive during Covid-19 national lockdown. (Photo Satish.B)

32 municipal wards in Bengaluru declared corona hotspots

Kalaburagi district also included as a hotspots with 17 positive cases including three deaths

16 April 2020 2:31 PM IST