Panaji, A miffed Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Thursday said people should not blame the government for any spread of coronavirus now, after he was forced to relent on his earlier decision of a "100 per cent lockdown" in Goa and order the opening up of grocery stores, amid panic and complaints from all quarters.<

Guntur (Andhra Pradesh), A few Andhra Pradesh policemen were among the injured in a stone-pelting incident that took place at Pondugula checkpost in the Andhra Pradesh-Telangana border on Thursday evening.

A large number of people had turned up on the Telangana side of the interstate border to proceed to their hom

New York, The number of COVID-19 cases worldwide topped 500,000 as of Thursday noon, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University in the US. The fresh figure reached 510,108 cases with 22,993 deaths.

Outside China, the countries that reported over 10,000 cases incl

London, The British government announced on Thursday that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country has risen to 11,658 and the death toll jumped by over 100 in a day for the first time since the outbreak of the disease.

A total of 115 people had died of COVID-19 in 24 hours, bringing the toll to 578,

Geneva, The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged all countries to unite against the COVID-19 pandemic, warning that "millions could die" without aggressive action.

"Almost half a million people have already been infected, and more than 20,000 have lost their lives. The pandemic is accelerating

Rome, The coronavirus pandemic has claimed 8,165 lives in locked-down Italy by Thursday, with the cumulative number of cases reaching 80,539, according to new data released by the Civil Protection Department.

Speaking during a nightly televised press conference, Agostino Miozzo, director of Civil Protection Depart

Tehran, Iran has reported 2,389 more cases of COVID-19 infection, as the total number reached 29,406. The country reported 157 new deaths from the novel coronavirus, raising its death toll from the virus to 2,234. So far a total of 10,457 patients have recovered since the first cases were detected on February 19.

New York, The US has reported 82,404 confirmed COVID-19 cases as of 6 p.m., US Eastern Time on Thursday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. The country has surpassed China to become the nation with most COVID-19 cases in the world, according to the CSSE.

Mumbai, In an unprecedented incident, a Mumbai man allegedly killed his younger brother for trying to step out of home during the ongoing 21-day lockdown period, police said here on Thursday.

The incident happened late on Thursday in the Poisar slum colony in the north-west suburb of Kandivali, said an official of

New Delhi,  Amid the surge in novel coronavirus cases in India, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here has decided to start a tele consultation facility for its follow-up patients. "The service will commence soon," an AIIMS official told IANS.

"Many patients whose appoint