In Uttar Pradesh, Kamal Rani Varun, the only woman cabinet minister in the state, died of Covid-19 at a hospital in Lucknow on Sunday. She was 62. The technical education minister, who tested positive...

Twenty-six lakh people with 99 lakh mouths.No, it’s not a tale from the government’s beloved mythological texts but a logical inference from the migrant counts carried out by two of its arms.A lab...

Restaurants should introduce disposable menus, devotees visiting religious places should not touch the deities or holy books and mall visitors may stand only on alternate steps — one person on each...

“Unlock 1” will begin from Monday, confining the lockdown to Covid containment zones, educational institutions, congregation platforms and mass transport systems in the country.Malls, hotels and r...

The Union home ministry told Calcutta High Court on Tuesday that one of its teams was prepared to visit Bengal to inspect the Covid-19 situation in the state.Hearing a writ petition alleging the misma...

Thirty-six days after announcing at four hours’ notice a total lockdown of the country that left millions of migrant workers stranded without money or food in cities far from their homes, the Centre...

An assistant sub-inspector with the CRPF who had tested positive for Covid-19 a few days ago died on Tuesday, sources said, as the country’s biggest central paramilitary force reported its first vic...

Restaurants cannot open now, liquor cannot be sold, and barber shops and salons would also remain closed, the Centre clarified on Saturday after issuing a convoluted notification on Friday night on fr...

For the second time in successive crises, Union home minister Amit Shah has made himself conspicuous by his absence.The home minister was rarely sighted at the controls during February’s carnage in ...

The death toll due to the novel coronavirus rose to 452 with 32 fatalities reported since Thursday evening, while the number of cases saw a jump of 1,076 to go up to 13,835 cases on Friday, according ...