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Joint Secretary in Health Ministry Lav Agarwal said 227 cases have been reported in the last 24 hours and he attributed the increase to "lack of people's support and delay in timely detection" of the cases.

Babasaheb Ambedkar was the first to be a lawyer from a backward caste. His original surname was Ambawedkar which was changed to Ambedkar by his teacher in school.

The money will primarily be utilised across three broad areas of support that the Foundation has prioritised, including expansion of hospital capacity for treatment and enable hospital stays for COVID-19 patients across India.

Ninety-three-year-old Thomas and his wife Mariyamma (88), who contracted the disease from their Italy-returned son and his family, recovered after undergoing treatment at the Kottayam Medical College Hospital for three weeks.

The submission of application forms for National Council for Hotel Management (NCHM) JEE-2020, which was scheduled to end on March 31, 2020, has now been extended till April 30, 2020.

On the issue of police beating workers who are walking to their native places in the absence of transport, Joint Secretary of Home Ministry Punya Srivastava said while clear instructions have been issued to states and UTs to enforce lockdown

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said exams of up to class 8 could not be held due to the recent violence in northeast Delhi, followed by the coronavirus outbreak.

Jagdish Bhamaniya and Rajesh Chowdhary had hoarded the sanitiser bottles and were profiteering due to the rise in their demand.

As per the orders of District Magistrate Lucknow, Abhishek Prakash, it has been decided that four city hotels will be temporarily acquired for making quarantine facilities for doctors and nurses who are treating coronavirus patients, while three more spot...

Two independent fact-checkers said they had seen a sharp increase in misinformation and fake news on the coronavirus across platforms since the outbreak was first detected in India.

The Indian Premier League 2020 is likely to be called off due to the situation surrounding COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) in India

The total number of positive cases in the city rose to 24 on Sunday after five more tested positive for the novel coronavirus, taking Madhya Pradesh's tally to 39.

People in several places in Kota began crowding ration shops, ignoring the social distancing norm, accentuating the risk of the spread of the virus, an official said.

The home secretary made it clear that the newspaper delivery supply chain was also allowed under exemptions given for print media.

Chadha's malicious and deliberate act is not only dangerous to the maintenance of law and order but also it will create panic among the people who are going to their native places at this time due to coronavirus epidemic, the FIR said.

Health authorities have been informed about the death of the man, said a senior official, adding all those who had come in contact with him are admitted to a separate ward of that hospital as a precautionary measure.