Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has set up Team 11 to monitor the situation in various sectors amid COVID-19 and the subsequent nationwide lockdown.

The various teams are led by 20 IAS and five IPS officers.

The leaders of these teams will report directly to the chief minister,

Chandigarh, Punjab Public Works Minister Vijay Inder Singla on Friday said the state has suspended collection of toll at all 23 toll plazas in the northern state till the end of the nationwide lockdown imposed to control the spread of coronavirus.

Since the curfew has come into force, only emergency vehicles are p

Srinagar, In its efforts to help the people during lockdown, the Indian Army said on Friday that it has distributed rations among daily wagers, migrant workers and the needy in Kashmir.

Following the lockdown to contain coronavirus spread, the Army has helped the disadvantaged throughout the Valley at grassroots l

Hyderabad, Ten fresh cases of Covid-19 were reported in Telangana on Friday, taking the state's total number to 59.

Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao told reporters that 10 persons had tested positive in a single day.

While the first case was discharged after treatment, 58 others are undergoi

Paris, Four workers from a French Christian charity who were kidnapped in Iraq in January have been freed, President Emmanuel Macron's office said.

The three French nationals and an Iraqi were abducted in Baghdad on January 20, the BBC said in a report on Friday.

Their release came a day after F

Beijing, Amid the fast-spreading coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which has currently infected over 5 lakh people worldwide, researchers have found that three newborns with coronavirus may have got the disease from their mother during pregnancy or childbirth in China.

According to the study, published in the journ

Vatican City, Mass testing has been carried out in the Vatican after a priest living at the Popes residence tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

Msgr. Gianluca Pezzoli, 58, head of the Italian section of the Vatican's Secretariat of State tested positive earlier this week. He is a permanent resident at S

New Delhi, Congress leader and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi has written a letter to Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and has asked for safety of students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya who are currently staying in Navodaya Nainital in a student exchange programme.

"In light of the

Mumbai, In a huge health concern, the Covid-19 positive cases count in Maharashtra shot up by 22 in the past 24 hours to stand at 147 now, a health official said here on Friday.

The overnight number of positive cases mounted from 125 to 135 with 10 new cases in the morning followed by 12 more detected positive fro

Lucknow, Interim Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday pledged all her MPLAD funds for combating coronavirus in her constituency Rae Bareli.

In a letter to the Rae Bareli District Magistrate, Sonia Gandhi authorised the DM to draw as much funds as required in dealing with the situation and provide sanitisers,