coronavirus updates

Mumbai, March 26 (IANS) Buoyed by the first instalment of a fiscal package to contain the economic fallout of Covid-19, investors pushed Indian stock markets higher for the third consecutive day with the BSE Sensex rising over 1,400 points.…
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Bhopal, March 26 (IANS) With five more people testing positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the toll of infected people in Madhya Pradesh has risen to 20, health officials said on Thursday. The tally includes an Ujjain-based…
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New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) Yuvraj Singh feels that actor Siddhant Chaturvedi would be the best bet to portray him if a biopic is ever made on him. The former cricketer however first said that he might give a thought to portraying the…
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Thiruvananthapuram, March 26 (IANS) Apart from the tourism industry that has taken a hit with the arrival of COVID-19, it's the marriage industry that has also taken a huge toll, as apart from the families, where marriages are to take…
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Jaipur, March 26 (IANS) Necessity is the mother of invention! This adage goes well with SMS hospital where the doctors have brought in a robot to serve the patients at the isolated wards with COVID-19 patients are. On Wednesday, a trial…
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New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) At a time when social distancing amid nationwide lockdown has kept people confined to their homes, the Medical Council of India (MCI) along with Niti Aayog has formulated new guidelines for registered medical…
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Kolkata, March 25 (IANS) BCCI President and former India captain Sourav Ganguly will provide free rice worth Rs 50 lakh to the needy people who have been put in government schools for safety and security amid the coronavirus pandemic.…
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New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, addressing the people of his constituency Varanasi, compared the fight against coronavirus to the battle of Kurukshetra in the Mahabharata. He said the war in…
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New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) The 2020 edition of the chess Olympiad, scheduled to be held in Moscow, has been postponed due to the ongoig coronavirus pandemic, International Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced. The FIDE, in a statement,…
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New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) In the backdrop of the coronavirus outbreak, the Centre on Wednesday announced to postpone the first phase of Census 2021 and the National Population Register (NPR) exercise. The exercise slated to begin on…
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