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| Recovery rate rises to 25.19% : Health M | New Delhi, April 30 (TIWN) The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Thursday that the recovery rate of Covid-19 patients has increased to 25.19 per cent, while the doubling rate of positive coronavirus cases has gone up to 11 days. | 30-Apr-2020 |
| Rs 65,000 cr needed to feed the poor: Ra | New Delhi, April 30 (TIWN) Former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan in a video talk with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, streamed by the party, said that country needs Rs 65,000 crore to feed the poor. | 30-Apr-2020 |
| With 1,718 new cases, India's corona tal | New Delhi, April 30 (TIWN) With 1,718 new cases and 67 new fatalities in 24 hours, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the country climbed to 33,050 on Thursday morning, the Union Health Ministry said. | 30-Apr-2020 |
| Not getting any time to sleep, says Mama | Kolkata, April 30 (TIWN) Hitting the streets regularly in her bid to combat the Covid 19 pandemic, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said she was having to do without sleep as all her time was getting exhausted in standing by the distressed. | 30-Apr-2020 |
| BJP teams to monitor govt programmes for | Bhopal, April 30 (TIWN) The BJP government in Madhya Pradesh is activating the party apparatus to monitor the schemes to ensure facilities reach the intended beneficiaries during the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. | 30-Apr-2020 |
| SC: NEET applicable to private unaided m | New Delhi, April 29 (TIWN) The Supreme Court Thursday ruled that the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) will apply to private unaided minority colleges for admission of students to MBBS, MD, BDS and MDS courses. | 29-Apr-2020 |
| 3,000 flew out from Bengaluru to foreign | Bengaluru, April 29 (TIWN) Around 3,000 foreign nationals had left Bengaluru in 22 flights to 17 overseas destinations amid the lockdown, extended to contain the coronavirus spread in Karnataka, the airport operator said, here on Wednesday. | 29-Apr-2020 |
| India reports 31,787 Covid-19 cases, 1,0 | New Delhi, April 29 (TIWN) With 1,813 cases and 71 deaths in the last 24 hours, the number of Covid-19 cases in the country mounted to 31,787 on Wednesday, the Union Health Ministry said here. | 29-Apr-2020 |
| 25 students, 1 Police official injured i | Ayodhya, April 29 (TIWN) A bus carrying students from Prayagraj to Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh met with an accident in Ayodhya early on Wednesday. Twenty-five students, the bus driver and a police constable were injured. | 29-Apr-2020 |
| Nadda unhappy at BJP MLAs' remark 'Don't | New Delhi, April 29 (TIWN) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President JP Nadda has expressed displeasure with MLA Suresh Tiwari for asking people not to buy vegetables from Muslims. Besides, Shyam Prakash, a party legislator from Hardoi, also made similar remarks. Taking these statements seriously, the Uttar Pradesh unit of BJP has issued a show cause notice to them. | 28-Apr-2020 |
| After 2000-km drive, Justice Datta takes | Mumbai, April 28 (TIWN) After a grueling, 2,000-km 3-day road journey from Kolkata to Mumbai, Justice Dipankar Datta was sworn in as the new Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court on Tuesday evening, officials said. | 28-Apr-2020 |
| Police come under attack in Howrah, two | Kolkata, April 28 (TIWN) Two police personnel were injured as a mob hurled bricks and vandalised two security force vehicles after lawkeepers tried to enforce the lockdown in West Bengal's Howrah district on Tuesday. | 28-Apr-2020 |
| Strengthen lungs with 'shankhnaad', prev | New Delhi, April 28 (TIWN) Congress leader Jitin Prasada has posted a video on social media which shows him blowing a ‘shankh (conch shell) at his home town in Uttar Pradesh. | 28-Apr-2020 |
| Bring out truth in sadhus murder in Bula | New Delhi, April 28 (TIWN) Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has lashed out at the Uttar Pradesh government for deteriorating law and order situation, rise of crime and murder of two saints in Bulandshahr on Tuesday. | 28-Apr-2020 |
| Lockdown likely to extend in MP after Ma | Bhopal, April 28 (TIWN) Madhya Pradesh readied itself for a longer haul under lockdown beyond May 3 as 75 more people tested positive in the last 24 hours, 31 of them in Indore. The state's coronavirus tally touched 2,165 on Monday. | 27-Apr-2020 |
| Mamata to talk to non-BJP state govts fo | Kolkata, April 27 (TIWN) Alleging that the Centre's decisions on lockdown enforcement and relaxations lack clarity, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday lashed out at the visiting IMCT delegations for calling her officers indiscriminately, thereby hampering the fight against Covid-19. | 27-Apr-2020 |
| Executive is best equipped to handle Cov | New Delhi, April 27 (TIWN) Chief Justice of India, S.A. Bobde on Monday said that a disaster or an epidemic can be best handled by the executive. | 27-Apr-2020 |
| CMs for lockdown extension with partial | New Delhi, April 27 (TIWN) Majority of states asked for continuation of lockdown and urged the central government to take the decision, said Puducherry Chief Minister Velu Narayanasamy after the meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi via video link here on Monday. | 27-Apr-2020 |
| COVID-19: Total case count reaches 27,89 | New Delhi, April 27 (TIWN) The total number of novel coronavirus cases in India rose to 27,892, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Monday. | 27-Apr-2020 |
| Tripura COVID19 Kits purchasing alleged | AGARTALA, April 27 (TIWN): Law Minister Ratanlal Nath who promised to expose the corruption took place in Health dept by Saturday (April 25), has crossed two days already without any updates. Ratan Lal promised to open his mouth on this serious scam by Saturday but what exactly happened, it is unknown to media yet as of Monday. On April 24, Tripura Govt has ordered investigation in sanitizer and mask purchasing deals, removing Health Secretary Debasish Basu and NHM Director Aditi Choudhury from posts. In a press meet, Law Minister Ratanlal Nath on Friday announced this, which has shaken the state. The Minister did not mention, whether the both officials are involved in any scam or not, neither told media clearly about any scam happened exactly or not. But, Additional Chief Secretary S K Rakesh has been appointed as Health Secretary. The investigation will be done by Secretary Kiran Gitte and Finance Secretary Tanushree Debbarma. | 27-Apr-2020 |
| ‘Primary Sectors to revive economy | Agartala, April 26: Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has made a clarion call to increase activities in the Primary Sectors as an alternative to tackle the adverse impact of lockdown on state's economy. | 26-Apr-2020 |
| Lockdown: Naveen, Uddhav discuss for ret | Bhubaneswar, April 26 (TIWN) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday discussed with his Maharashtra counterpart Uddhav Thackeray for safe return of Odia migrants stranded in Maharashtra. | 26-Apr-2020 |
| CBSE Chairperson appointed Secretary, De | New Delhi, April 26 (TIWN) CBSE Chairperson Anita Karwal was on Sunday appointed as Secretary in the Department of Education and Literacy. | 26-Apr-2020 |
| Covid-19 patients in Hyderabad hospital | Hyderabad, April 26 (TIWN) Some coronavirus patients, undergoing treatment at the government-run Gandhi Hospital, here, are observing Ramadan fast. Asymptomatic patients in the Covid-19 designated hospital began observing the fast from Saturday, hospital sources said. | 26-Apr-2020 |
| Delhi's Hindu Rao Hospital shut after nu | New Delhi, April 26 (TIWN) Hindu Rao Hospital run by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation has been temporarily shut after a nurse tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday. | 26-Apr-2020 |
| India's fight against COVID-19 is people | New Delhi, April 26 (TIWN) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that India's fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic is people driven. | 26-Apr-2020 |
| Sonia writes to PM, demands package for | New Delhi, April 25 (TIWN) Pointing out that the Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) contributes one third to the nation's economy, Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi, here on Saturday, wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the grave economic crisis facing the nation and demanded a package to give liquidity and confidence to the sector. | 25-Apr-2020 |
| Priyanka raps govt over DA freeze decisi | New Delhi, April 25 (TIWN) Criticising the decision to cut dearness allowance (DA) hike of government employees and pensioners, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, here on Saturday, and asked central government to scrap the bullet train and the central vista projects to save 30 per cent expenditure. | 25-Apr-2020 |
| Assam to allow inter-district movement | Guwahati/Agartala, April 25 (TIWN) The Assam government will allow inter-district movement of nearly one lakh people from Saturday, officials said. | 25-Apr-2020 |
| 18 deaths in Bengal directly related to | Kolkata, April 25 (TIWN) A total of 57 corona positive patients have perished in West Bengal, of whom an expert committee of doctors has certified that 18 deaths were directly linked to COVID, a top official said here. | 25-Apr-2020 |
| Noida records six fresh corona cases in | Noida, April 25 (TIWN) With six fresh corona positive cases reported in one day, the number of corona-infected patients in Noida reached 109. | 25-Apr-2020 |
| Insensitive, says Rahul Gandhi on freezi | New Delhi, April 24 (TIWN) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has termed the government decision to freeze Dearness Allowance of Central government employees for a year as "insensitive and inhuman." | 24-Apr-2020 |
| Yogi to bring back stranded migrants fro | Lucknow, April 24 (TIWN) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked his officials to draw up a plan to bring back all migrant workers from the state who are still stranded in other states. | 24-Apr-2020 |
| Soldier killed in accidental firing in J | Srinagar, April 24 (TIWN) A soldier was died on Friday in accidental firing in J&K's Kupwara district. | 24-Apr-2020 |
| CBI takes over sea cucumbers poaching ca | New Delhi, April 24 (TIWN) The CBI has registered a case against four persons from Lakshadweep on the charge of poaching 46 live sea cucumbers and possession of 173 taxidermized cucumbers which are important for marine ecosystem. | 24-Apr-2020 |
| 50% cases on social media have fake IDs | Prayagraj, April 24 (TIWN) A total of 56 cases have been registered against those found using derogatory language against communities and political figures in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj and nearly 50 per cent of those booked, have been found using fake details to create an account on social networking websites. | 24-Apr-2020 |
| BJP seeking to inflame communal division | New Delhi, April 23 (TIWN) The Congress Working Committee, which met here on Thursday for the second time after the lockdown began, slammed the BJP for fanning communal divisions. It discussed a four-point plan and demanded that the government formulate an exit strategy for the lockdown. | 23-Apr-2020 |
| President approves ordinance on tougher | New Delhi, April 23 (TIWN) President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday approved the Modi government's ordinance on stricter punishment for the attacks on health workers across the country. With this, the ordinance will take the form of a law across the country from now on. | 23-Apr-2020 |
| Out of over 5 lakh samples tested, 21797 | New Delhi, April 23 (TIWN) A total of 5,00,542 samples have been tested by 9 a.m. on Thursday, said the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), India's leading medical research lab. | 23-Apr-2020 |
| Rainfall in Delhi expected to further im | New Delhi, April 23 (TIWN) Western disturbance is set to affect the national capital and its adjoining area on Thursday, leading to isolated showers that is expected to improve the air quality. | 23-Apr-2020 |
| Corona cases mount to 21,393 in India, 6 | New Delhi, April 23 (TIWN) The total cases of COVID-19 in the country, including 77 foreign nationals mounted to 21393, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday. | 23-Apr-2020 |
| Coronavirus cases crosses 20,000, 652 de | New Delhi, April 22 (TIWN) The Union Health Ministry on Wednesday said the total of coronavirus cases in the country is 20,471 with 1,383 fresh cases reported in the past 24 hours, along with 50 new deaths, taking the toll to 652. | 22-Apr-2020 |
| Corona count in India 19,984; 50 deaths | New Delhi, April 22 (TIWN) The Union Health Ministry said a total of 19,984 people have been confirmed positive for COVID-19 across the country, and 3,870 people have been cured with a recovery rate of 19.36%. | 22-Apr-2020 |
| Govt amends Epidemic Act; attacking medi | New Delhi, April 22 (TIWN) In a significant move, the Union cabinet on Wednesday amended the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1987 through an ordinance in order to ensure safety of health workers at a time when there has been a spate of attacks on them. Any violence against health workers may now bring steep fines and even imprisonments of up to seven years. | 22-Apr-2020 |
| BHU begins pool testing to cope with rus | Varanasi, April 22 (TIWN) The microbiology department of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) has started pool testing of Covid-19 samples in view of the increasing number of pending samples reaching here from 13 districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh. | 22-Apr-2020 |
| Tomar joins G-20 Agriculture Ministers' | New Delhi, April 22 (TIWN) Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar participated in an extraordinary virtual meeting of G-20 Agriculture Ministers on Tuesday to address the issue of COVID-19 impacts on food security, safety and nutrition. | 22-Apr-2020 |
| Coronavirus cases rise again in Indore, | Bhopal, April 22 (TIWN) With 70 more persons testing positive during in past 24-hours, the number of coronavirus cases in Madhya Pradesh jumped to 1,552, as per the Tuesday night bulletin. | 22-Apr-2020 |
| Covid-19 patients recovery rate 17.48%, | New Delhi, April 21 (TIWN) The Union Health Ministry on Tuesday said the country's recovery rate of coronavirus patients is 17.48 percent and 3,252 patients have been cured so far. | 21-Apr-2020 |
| 2nd MP cop dies of coronavirus | Indore, April 21 (TIWN) Yashwant Pal became the second police inspector in Madhya Pradesh in three days to die due to complications arising out of coronavirus infection. | 21-Apr-2020 |
| CM orders Covid-19 check-up of all Benga | Bengaluru, April 21 (TIWN) Concerned over the welfare of media warriors amid the coronavirus outbreak, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa directed the state health department to conduct a medical check-up of all journalists in this tech city to ensure they are free from the virus, an official said on Tuesday. | 21-Apr-2020 |