- Wednesday, April 16, 2025
India has no plans to extend a 21-day lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the government said this morning. Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered the country's 1.3 billion people to remain indoors until April 15 saying that was the only hope to stop the epidemic. But the order has…
Former Australia captain Ian Chappell has picked VVS Laxman's legendary 281 against Australia at the Eden Gardens in 2001 as one his favourite innings against high-quality spin bowling. Thanks to Laxman and Rahul Dravid (180), India went on to win the game against Australia after following-on. "The absence of any…
Virologist Minal Dakhave Bhosale of Maharashtra led from the front to create India's first coronavirus testing kit while she was in the final stage of her pregnancy. Bhosale's efforts made history, with her team delivering the testing kit in a record time of six weeks. The virologist, who headed a…
Maharashtra Police's cyber unit has registered 36 first in formation reports (FIRs) across the state against those spreading fake news about coronavirus on social media. State Home Minister Anil Deshmukh recently instructed the police and cyber cell to initiate strict action against rumour-mongers and those circulating fake news about coronavirus,…
Indian community members in South Africa have joined hands to provide relief to the needy citizens as the country, which went into a 21-day lockdown, grapples with the fast spread of the coronavirus that has infected over 4,100 people and caused one death. About 57 million people are restricted to…
At least 15,000 people who may have caught the coronavirus from a 'super-spreader' guru are under strict quarantine in north India after the Sikh preacher died of COVID-19. Baldev Singh, 70, had returned from a trip to Europe's virus epicentre Italy, and Germany when he went preaching in more than a…
The Ramayan was back on Indian television today, recalling for many those epic mornings an age ago when entire families, and even neighbours, gathered before clunky television boxes for their weekly fix of television and religion. The streets were empty today, like they used to be nearly three decades ago…
The Indian Railways has set up a COVID-19 isolation ward prototype by converting train coaches. The national service-provider said each railway zones will start setting up similar rakes with 10 coaches in a few days. Each modified coach will be able to accommodate 10 patients. "Then we will serve the…
INDIA'S central security agencies are looking into the role of a Kerala youth believed to be one of the terrorists belonging to the Islamic State, which claimed responsibility of an attack on a gurdwara in Afghanistan killing 25 people. The youth hails from Kasaragod district in the south Indian state.…
A couple of days ago, Akshay Kumar had posted a video on Instagram in which he was quite upset with people as they weren’t following the lockdown rules. The actor had once again urged everyone to stay at home. Now, today, Hrithik Roshan has posted a video on Instagram for…
