New Delhi: The Railway Board on Thursday announced that all passenger services, regular mail, express trains have been cancelled till August 12 in view of the coronavirus pandemic.

A full refund will be given to passengers who booked tickets for regular time-tabled trains from July 1 to August 12. 

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Bhubaneswar, In view of its rising Covid-19 cases, Berhampur Municipal Corporation in Odisha's Ganjam district will remain shut down for four days starting from June 27, District Collector Vijay Amruta Kulange announced on Thursday.

He said the shutdown has been ordered to facilitate active tracing and su

Bengaluru, As many as 519 Covid patient discharges have outnumbered 442 infections in Karnataka even as the state's tally rose to 10,560, an official said on Thursday.

"New cases reported from Wednesday 5 p.m. to Thursday 5 p.m. are 442," said a health official.

With 519 discharges, to

New Delhi, The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on Thursday reviewed the preparedness of authorities in Delhi and surrounding regions to deal with air pollution problem in the winter season.

CPCB Chairperson Ravi Shankar Prasad reviewed the preparedness of state Pollution Control Boards, Municipal Corporatio

New Delhi, The Indian Railways has prepared 1.91 lakh personal protective equipment (PPE) kits, 7.33 lakh face masks and over 66,400 liters sanitisers for Covid-19 warriors.

A senior Railway Ministry spokesperson said the railways in coordination with other Ministries and state governments was geared up to meet th

Mumbai, Maharashtra's Covid-19 cases again jumped sharply from Wednesday's highest of 3,890 to a new peak of 4,841 on Thursday while the deaths in Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) shot past the 5,000 mark to 5,065, health officials said.

The state's fatalities again catapulted from the June's lowes

Vijayawada, A goods train loaded with petroleum products caught fire after derailment in Andhra Pradesh's Prakasam district on Thursday, railway officials said.

The incident occurred between Surareddipalem and Tangutur railway stations on Ongole-Gudur section of Vijayawada division in the early hours of the da

New Delhi,  A minor girl, who reportedly had over one million followers on the short-video platform TikTok, was found hanging at her residence in the Geeta Colony area here, the police said on Thursday.

The 16-year-old deceased also had 1.35 lakh followers on Instagram.

According to the police,

New Delhi, The national capital on Thursday witnessed a spike of 3,390 Covid-19 cases and 64 deaths, taking the total tally to 73,780.

On Wednesday, Delhi had surpassed Mumbai in the number of Covid-19 cases, thereby becoming India's worst-hit city.

According to the Delhi government data, as man

New Delhi, After the BJP cornered the Congress on the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF) receiving donations from the Chinese Embassy here, the Congress responded that "the BJP should stop living in 2005" and alleged that the ruling party is adopting "diversionary tactics" to avoid answering questions on the Chine