Chennai, The Tamil Nadu health department said on Thursday that 1,875 persons have tested positive for coronavirus in the past 24 hours, while 22 persons have succumbed to the dreaded virus and 1,372 patients have been cured and discharged from the hospitals.

In a statement issued here, the health department said

New Delhi,  Even as government data says the number of deaths due to Covid-19 is 948 in Delhi, a video has gone viral about Delhi's Punjabi Bagh funeral site, with BJP leader Kapil Mishra tweeting the video.

The situation at the funeral sites are pathetic as distressed family members have to wait for hour

New Delhi,  Finally, demand for isolation coaches prepared by the Indian Railways has started gaining momentum as the national transporter has received requests from Uttar Pradesh, Telangana and Delhi for the same.

The Indian Railways had transferred 5,231 coaches into isolation wards for novel coronavirus pa

Bengaluru, Bucking the high discharges trend of the past few days, more number of infections have been recorded in Karnataka in the past 24 hours, with 204 Covid cases raising the state's tally to 6,245, said an official on Thursday.

"New cases reported from Wednesday 5 p.m. to Thursday 5 p.m., 204,"

Bengaluru, The number of Covid-19 containment zones in the city rose to 85 with 244 active cases, said an official, here on Thursday.

The city reported the first positive case in the entire state on March 8 and went on to record 564 cases. Of this, 244 were active till Wednesday. Of all the cases, 308 recovered an

Bhopal,  Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday apparently slammed the Congress, and without naming any leader said the destruction of sinners is a work of virtue.

Taking to Twitter on Thursday, he wrote: "The destruction of sinners is a work of virtue. This is what our religion

Patna,  All political parties in Bihar are out to woo lakhs of migrant workers and labourers who have come home in the wake of Covid-19 lockdown. The elections are due in the state later this year.


Government figures put the number of these returnee migrants at around 25 lakh. At least 15 lakh of

New Delhi, A day after urging the people to offer namaz from their homes amid the spike in Covid-19 cases in the national capital, Jama Masjid's Shahi Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari, here on Thursday, said the mosque would remain closed till June 30.

Speaking to the media, Bukhari said, "I had made an appeal to

New Delhi, The Congress, which has already lost party-ruled Madhya Pradesh to internal rebellion led by Jyotiraditya Scindia, and saw a spate of its MLAs resigning in Gujarat, is trying hard to keep its flock together in Rajasthan.

In a late evening development on Wednesday, the Congress MLAs in Rajasthan were cal

Chennai,  What was supposed to have been a blissful first night for a newly wed couple finally turned out to be tragic last night.

The newly married husband on his first night killed his wife and later committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree in Tiruvallur district.

According to police,