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Given the ongoing lockdown due to coronavirus, the dispersal of classes has been further postponed till May 15.

This is the latest in a series of efforts the corporation staff has put in. Earlier, the corporation had placed a mobile sanitiser bus at different places and some of its old buses were converted to fever clinics.

Of the new cases, six were reported from Kollam, two each from Thiruvananthapuram and Kasaragod.

Airlines are now preparing their own respective standard operating procedures in compliance with the circulars issued by the Ministry of Civil Aviation and their own internal risk mitigation from the pandemic.

Overall, 18,711 of the total 29,435 cases in India have been reported from just 15 districts. Five of these districts — Mumbai, Delhi (State), Ahmedabad, Pune and Indore — have recorded more than 1,000 cases each and aggregate 46.35 per cent of the total...

The Aarogya Setu application developed by the government helps people to assess themselves on the risk of their catching the coronavirus infection.

It is suspected that deceased Mohammed Irfan Khan, who hails from Assam, caught the virus from a head constable who had joined 31st battalion as a nursing attendant.

The encounter broke out after the militants opened fire at a search party of the security forces at Melhora in Zainapora area of the district.

Classes for second and third year students will begin from August 1, while the fresh batch for first semester from September 1. Examinations will be conducted from January 1, 2021, till January 25.

The minister also underscored that the COVID-19 situation in the state is under control in the state, which has the country's highest recovery rate of more than 71 per cent.

It all started when the workers learnt their contractors have brought in more labourers from other parts of Gujarat to speed up the construction work after getting approval of the district collector.

Lack of harvesters, labour shortage, lacklustre storage facilities, untimely rains and a dying demand are now starting to point towards a supply constraint that may eventually manifest itself much after India expectedly emerges out of the coronavirus pand...

The Mumbai-based Axis booked provisions of 77.30 billion rupees for the quarter, or nearly three times higher than last year, including 30 billion rupees towards COVID-19, the lender said in a regulatory filing.

The central government scheme is scheduled to be launched in June this year.

The nationwide lockdown is scheduled to end on May 3, though many states have requested the Centre to extend the lockdown. A final decision is yet to be taken.

In an unusual development, two officers - Arvind Sharma and Tarun Bajaj, considered part of Modi’s inner circle – were shifted out of the PMO and placed as secretaries of ministry of micro, small and medium enterprises and department of economic affairs r...