Tag: Nationwide Lockdown

Bhubaneswar: Highlighting the challenge of the Coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address to the nation today, announced a 21-day lockdown from 12 AM tonight. “If we are not able to manage the upcoming 21-day lockdown(of nationwide complete lockdown), we will be pushed back 21 years. This lockdown is in a way a […]

New Delhi: Following announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday night to enforce 21-day complete nationwide lockdown in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, Ministry of Home Affairs(MHA) issued guidelines for the lockdown period in the country and released a list of essential services that will remain open during this time. The MHA also invoked […]

Bhubaneswar/Cuttack: With ‘social distancing’ being the key against the nationwide fight against Coronavirus, several district administrations across Odisha are implementing special measures to ensure that people strictly adhere to social distancing norms. Commissionerate Police today temporarily shifted the vegetable traders of Unit-1 Haat for a period of 45 days to AG Square and Rajmahal chhak. […]

Mumbai: The Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS) declared an emergency relief package amid Coronavirus lockdown across the country to support its members facing financial pressure. Along with that, several film industry biggies have pledged to help the daily wage workers amid the 21-days nationwide lockdown. Headed by lyricist Javed Akhtar, the IPRS will provide money […]

New Delhi: After a day of announcing an increase in wages under the rural job scheme MGNREGA, the Centre has released Rs 4, 431 crore for clearing pending wages under the programme and has further instructed to clear the dues by April 10, informed officials on Friday. The announcement was made at a time a […]

New Delhi: Amid the coronavirus lockdown across the country, people are struggling to cope with the feelings of loneliness, anxiety, frustration, and a fear of what’s coming next. In such scenarios of COVID-19 lockdown, people stuck at home are preferring virtual therapy for treating Coronavirus anxiety. Virtual therapy provided by e-consults focussed on mental health […]

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The national body for book publishing and book promotion, National Book Trust (NBT) under the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, will be launching a book titled ‘Corona Studies Series’ to provide relevant reading materials for all age-groups for post-Covid-19 readership needs and also provide a platform to authors and […]

New Delhi: Amid the nationwide lockdown for Coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday shared his lockdown diaries. PM Modi shared his fitness routine with the public, saying practising Yoga has been an integral part of his life for many years. In a series of tweets, Modi shared the animated videos of him doing […]

New Delhi: The Indian Railways today rubbished rumours on the resumption of passenger services plan post the end of the nationwide coronavirus lockdown on April 14, stating that there is no such plan as of now. The largest public sector transported had cancelled all passenger, mail and express train services from March 24 to April […]

As of now, 2902 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 68 deaths have been reported. Meanwhile, 183 persons have been cured/discharged from the hospitals after recovery. Among the total confirmed cases, 1023 cases have been linked to Tablighi Jamaat across 17 States which includes Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, J&K, Rajasthan, Telangana, A&N Islands, Arunachal […]

In the wake of Coronavirus outbreak in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced 21-days nationwide lockdown as an initiative to break the chain and prevent the transmission of deadly COVID-19. PM Modi had urged every citizen to stay back in home-isolation to prevent community spread. The lockdown drive was applauded and received massive […]

New Delhi: The COVID-19 nationwide lockdown is set to be extended at least till April 30 after a broad “consensus” on it emerged on Saturday during a meeting of chief ministers with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who stressed on “jaan bhi, jahaan bhi”, indicating that restrictions may be tweaked as it was important to save […]

Surat: As many as 81 Odia migrant workers stranded in Diamond Nagar of Surat in Gujarat due to coronavirus lockdown, were arrested by Sarthana Police on Saturday allegedly for going on a rampage and setting several vehicles ablaze. As per reports, fearing extension of the COVID-19 lockdown, the migrant labourers hit the street in Diamond […]

Amid the nationwide lockdown for containing the spread of Coronavirus in India, several Bollywood celebrities are sharing lockdown diaries to ‘stay in touch’ with their admirers. Bollywood beauty Shilpa Shetty Kundra shared some yoga tips while Alia Bhatt is busy in her kitchen. Here we bring what Riteish Deshmukh, his wife Genelia and Bhumi Pednekar […]

New Delhi: Indian Railways will forgo around Rs 1,490 crore in revenue as it is refunding the amount towards cancellation of a whopping 94 lakh ticket bookings made by passengers prior to the imposition of the nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Top Railways officials told PTI that an amount of Rs 830 […]