Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan urged the states to ensure uninterrupted supply of the grains to the common people.

He said the states can take the stock of foodgrains from Food Corporation of India (FCI).

Paswan also hailed the decision taken by the government to pe

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday launched the Shramik Bharan-Poshan Yojana and released the first installment of Rs 1,000 into the bank accounts of almost 20 lakh daily wage labourers of the state.

While launching the scheme, he said that his government will give a maintenance

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal here on Tuesday announced payment of Rs 5,000 to all the daily wagers in the national capital to deal with the situation due to coronavirus.

"All daily wage workers will be paid Rs 5,000 to deal with the situation," said Kejriwal.

Addressing the media through video link

About 350 FIRs have been lodged in the past 24 hours in Uttar Pradesh for violation of the lockdown in the state.

Additional chief secretary home, Avanish Awasthi, told reporters here on Tuesday that 250 FIRs had been registered on Monday and 100 on Tuesday.

He said that the state government had started preparing to

Amid the rising cases of novel coronavirus in India, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, on Tuesday, said more than 2 lakh calls have been responded to, at the Control Room, while nearly 52,000 emails have been answered at NCDC control room.

Taking a stock of preparedness, the minister visited NCDC Control Room, Lab and Testing F

Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Tuesday asked the print media to act as a link between the government and the people to create awareness and in providing continuous feedback in the wake of coronavirus outbreak.

"Act as a link between the government and the people and provide continuous feedback, at both national and regi

The government may come up with an economic package to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic from causing major harm to the economy.

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said as a first step they were addressing the compliance related issues and an economic package covering issues of concern to the industry would be announced separately la

With the Opposition abstaining due to "Corona curfew" the new Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan won a unanimous trust vote on Tuesday.

The Assembly proceedings began at 11 a.m. but not a single Congress MLA arrived to attend the House and the vote of confidence turned into a farcical exercise. All ML

Former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday attacked the Modi government for the delay in setting up a Special Economic Task Force to analyse the effects of coronavirus pandemic on Indian economy and to create a road map to reduce the financial strain.

In a series of tweets, the senior Congress leader wrote: "Woke

New Delhi, In the wake of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak in the country, the Lok Sabha Secretariat will remain closed till March 31 starting Tuesday.

As per the order issued by the administration branch of the Parliament on Tuesday, the Lok Sabha Secretariat will remain closed till March 31 with &q