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AIIMS, Raipur, Director Dr Nitin Nagarkar said three points -- advanced planning, effective lockdown and Chhattisgarh not being a densely populated state -- helped the authorities keep the virus at bay.

Two doctors and 16 paramedics have tested positive for coronavirus at DSCI.

The petition, filed by Delhi-based advocate Madhurima Mridul, said that the government should be directed to ensure that flights ferrying British nationals from India to the UK be used to evacuate Indian students.

It also said over 15 lakh people have been given shelter and food by their respective employers during this lockdown.

A pink supermoon or super pink moon will be visible from the Earth very soon. It is going to be the brightest as well as the biggest the moon will appear to the people on Earth this year.

Experts say that if people do not feel the threat, they can completely disregard the government's policy measures to combat coronavirus.

On Monday, the Pakistani Army violated the ceasefire and resorted to small arms firing and mortar shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) in Mankote area and on last Friday they fired in Sunderbani-Nowshera sector injuring six security personnel.

India had restricted the exports of 26 ingredients and medicines on March 3. Paracetamol and its formulations accounted for two items on the original list.

Rajesh Baske, a daily labourer had come all to a city hospital from the tribal dominated Shulunga village for his daughter's treatment but had got stuck in the city due to the lockdown.

The deceased, who was a technician at the diesel shed at West Bengal's Siliguri, died at the isolation ward of the North Bengal Medical College & Hospital in the town on Sunday.

The four test pilots of the Indian Air Force, chosen for India's manned mission to space, have been undergoing training at the Yu.A. Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut Training Centre near Moscow

The man, a resident of a village in neighbouring Panipat, tied together bedsheets, a polythene sheet and his shirt to make a rope to escape the isolation ward of the hospital, they said.

Saad has been served notice under section 91 (summons to produce document or other things) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The police have sought only information from him. The investigators have stated that they do not want Saad to join the probe as o...

States have been asked to take immediate preventive steps to stop transmission and spread of the coronavirus from humans to animals and vice-versa.

Also, aviation turbine fuel (ATF) sales fell by 31 per cent as flights got suspended alongside the shutting of businesses and most vehicular traffic going off-road.

As part of the PPE kit, the health officials have also made a 'face shield' out of plastic which can be used along with the robes.