The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed its satisfaction with the measures taken by the Centre to contain the spread of coronavirus but expressed serious concern over the circulation of fake news across various news platforms - electronic, print or social media -- which triggered an exodus of migrant workers from the cities. ....

The total number of coronavirus positive cases in India reached 1,397 on Tuesday, including the foreign nationals, with 1,238 active cases, the Union Health Ministry said. ....

Air India is likely to transport critical medical equipment and supplies from China starting April 3. ....

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced that she would be contributing Rs 5 lakh to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund and a like amount to the West Bengal State Emergency Relief Fund to support the country's efforts in fighting coronavirus. ....

The National Testing Agency on Tuesday said that it was postponing the JEE (Main) April 2020 examinations scheduled on April 5, 7 to 9 and April 11. The testing agency has now proposed to conduct these exams in the last week of May 2020. ....

In order to create an isolation facility for suspected corona-infected individuals from Nizamuddin locality, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC)'s health department on Tuesday reached Bakkarwala area to sanitise the flats. ....

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday hailed the work done by the party governments in Punjab, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh to combat the spread of the novel coronavius (COVID-19). ....

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is fasting for nine days during 'Navratri' and is still working for around 20 hours a day. ....

The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Tuesday extended the last date for submission of entrance test forms at seven major educational institutions. ....

A young woman with travel history to Malaysia has tested positive for coronavirus infection, which is the first such case in Jharkhand, a senior officer said on Tuesday. ....

Even as the Kerala Government Medical Officers Association (KGMOA) on Tuesday said that they will observe a statewide black day on Wednesday, the Kerala government has come out with guidelines that they will supply three litres of liquor every week to those showing withdrawal symptoms, to their homes. ....

The Indian Railways on Tuesday said that it will modify 20,000 of its passenger train coaches into quarantine centres to accommodate over 3.2 lakh novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients across the country. ....

The newly-appointed District Magistrate of Noida, Suhas LY, has been directed to take charge of his new post by Monday night. He will be sent to Noida by a state plane. ....

The Assam government claims to have traced 456 people who came close to the latest hotspot of coronavirus spread in Delhi. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said the state government received a new list of 157 people who were near the religious congregation 'Tablighi Jamaat' in Delhi. ....

Eleven Congress MLAs in Uttarakhand have contributed Rs 15 lakh each from their MLA funds to help the needy and buy medical equipment in their respective constituencies to fight coronavirus amid the nationwide lockdown. ....

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to rope in community leaders of various faiths to conduct 'bhajan-kirtan' and 'namaz' to check panic among migrant workers in shelter homes amid the coronavirus outbreak. ....

A day after the migrant workers were sprayed with chemical in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly, Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Tuesday slammed the government saying treat the labourers with dignity as they build India. ....

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has cut short his programme after visiting Ghaziabad and is returning to Lucknow to hold a high-level meeting with officials in view of the Tablighi Jamaat conference that has spurred the coronavirus cases. ....

India on Monday witnessed one of the sharpest spike in the number of novel coronavirus (Covid-19) as 227 people tested positive in 24 hours, taking the country's total to 1,251 with 32 deaths. However, 102 people have been cured. ....

A religious congregation of 2000 people at a mosque in Delhi's Nizamuddin area which has thrown up several corona positive cases is a ticking time bomb as six of the persons who returned to Telangana have died from the virus and positive cases are emerging from at least five regions including J&K, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and the Andaman and Nicobar islands. ....