New Delhi, India is ready to dispatch rapid response teams to Nepal for assisting them with the present Covid-19 situation there, Lieutenant General Anup Banerji, DG Armed Forces Medical Services, said on Friday.

When asked about regional assistance, the Lieutenant General said that apart from Maldives, Indian is

Bhubaneswar,  The Odisha government has ensured food and shelter for around 5,547 migrant workers from other states who are stranded in Odisha in the wake of the nationwide lockdown to combat the Covid-19 outbreak, an official said on Friday.

The state government's spokesperson on Covid-19, Subroto Bagchi

Jammu, J&K government has earmarked 11 hospitals as COVID-19 hospitals and also reserved 3,400 beds for treatment and quarantine of affected people in the union territory.

"8 hospitals in Kashmir and 3 in Jammu to be exclusive COVID hospitals. 2,400 treatment beds and 1,000 additional quarantine beds were

Kolkata, A 29-year-old woman was arrested on Friday night for allegedly posting a "fake news" on social media that a doctor in the state's ID hospital, Beliaghata, has contracted the coronavirus infection, a city police officer said.

The arrest was made on the basis of an FIR filed with the cyber cri

Bhopal, A 53-year-old railway guard in Bhopal and two more members of the Jabalpur-based jeweller's staff tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday bringing the state's tally to 26.

The number of cases in Bhopal has risen to three while the break-up for the other cities is as follows: Indore 12, Ujjain two, J

Panaji, Shekhar Salkar, a former president and current spokesperson of the Goa chapter of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), has tendered a public apology for saying that 50 per cent of doctors at the Goa Medical College have been quarantined due to suspected infection of COVID-19.

The medical college is the st

Chandigarh, Sensing hardship being faced by migrant labourers with the imposition of lockdown to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Punjab government on Friday authorised all tehsildars 9local revenue officials) to issue curfew passes to enable them to return to their native places.

many daily-wagers

New Delhi, Amid the ongoing nationwide lockdown to contain the outbreak of coronavirus, the Supreme Court on Friday directed a Delhi-based family to pay Rs 4 lakh interim payment to a woman rendered homeless after being thrown out of a guest house.

The woman moved the apex court alleging she was thrown out af

Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday said that the situation does not look good as 39 more coronavirus positive cases -- the highest on a single day so far -- were registered, taking the state's total to 164.

He also termed the situation as serious, with all 14 districts in

New Delhi, Amid migration of labourers, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia urged them to stay back as food and accommodation were being arranged for them by the government.

While Kejriwal appealed to the migrants through a press conference, Sisodia met many of those who were walking