In a first of its kind, the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic, which has killed over 6,000 people worldwide and two in India so far, has come to the rescue of a government.

Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker Narmada Prasad Prajapati used the scare of the coronavirus to adjourn the Assembly session till March 26, the day of the voting

Jaisalmer,  A fresh batch of 53 evacuees from Iran have arrived at an Army Wellness Centre in Jaisalmer on Monday, following the COVID-19 outbreak in the Middle East country, where there has been over 700 deaths so far.

This is after the first batch of 236 evacuees that arrived at Jaisalmer on Sunday, confirm

Bhopal,  Amidst uproar in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, the house was adjourned till March 26. Speaker N.P. Prajapati adjourned the house just after the governor finished his customary address.

Governor Lalji in his address asked the MLAs to uphold democratic ideals. He also told the government to hold a floor

New Delhi,  The Delhi Police on Monday urged a court here to dismiss a plea for the registration of a case into alleged police excesses on the students of Jamia Millia Islamia in December 2019, contending that action was required to ensure normalcy then.

"It is submitted that the said action was req

New Delhi,  The virus first detected in Wuhan district in China in December last year, has now become an emergency of global scale. Corona virus, or COVID-19, as it has been called by WHO, has infected no less than 1.25 lakh people globally, claiming the life of more than 4,000 persons. The WHO has already declared the situ

Mumbai,  As the Yes Bank probe gathers momentum, the Enforcement Directorate has now decided to summon all the large borrowers who were given loans by the Rana Kapoor-led management.

An ED official said that the agency was looking into all the big borrowers of the bank and the stressed loans sanctioned d

Bengaluru,  India's leading digital payments platform PhonePe on Monday said it has integrated food delivery major Swiggy on its Switch platform.

With this partnership, PhonePe's 200 million registered users can now access the Swiggy app and order their favourite food from within the PhonePe app itsel

New Delhi,  Amid political drama in Madhya Pradesh where the Kamal Nath-led Congress government is facing a serious crisis, senior Congress leader and advocate Kapil Sibal said that it is within "the jurisdiction of the speaker to decide on the floor test."

He cited Uttarakhand High Court judgement

New Delhi,  Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday called for a review meeting on coronavirus (COVID-19) with the district magistrates in the national capital.

In Delhi, there have been seven cases with two being cured and one death, since the outbreak of the virus in India.

The city go

London,  Tottenham Hotspur defender Jan Vertonghen's family was held at knifepoint at their London home during a burglary when the Belgium star was away on Champions League duty with his club.

The incident happened on March 10 when four men wearing balaclavas held Vertonghen's wife and two children at