Author: IANS

Mumbai, April 2 (IANS) Actor Sanjay Dutt might not be in the gym but he is ensuring that he stays fit even if he is locked in his home like most people due to coronavirus. “Staying fit is very important especially during this time. So eat well, stay healthy &[Read More…]

New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Domestic airlines are free to accept ticket bookings for flights that will be operated post the current lockdown deadline, Civil Aviation Secretary Pradeep Singh Kharola said on Thursday. The current lockdown period is till the midnight of April 14 and if this is not extended[Read More…]

New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Late last month, the New York-based India Abroad shut down its print edition, bringing an end to a storied 50-year run. Unfortunately, some amateur media watchers have confused this with the closure of IANS, or the Indo-Asian News Service. This is to assure all our[Read More…]

Los Angeles, April 2 (IANS) American pop singer-actor Janet Jackson thinks bald women look “beautiful” and was keen to shave her head ahead of her 1993 world tour. Jackson shared on Twitter after sharing an Instagram video featuring a young cancer sufferer named Gaby, whose older sister Camila shared that[Read More…]

Lahore, April 2 (IANS) Former Pakistan skipper Mohammad Hafeez named his top five batsmen of all time in a Q&A session on Twitter. Hafeez named West Indies and Indian batting greats Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar, Indian captain Virat Kohli, former South Afican captain AB de Villiers and former Pakistan[Read More…]

New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) PC and printer major HP Inc. on Thursday announced a variety of relief initiatives aimed at arming its global channel partner community to effectively navigate the operational and financial challenges associated with COVID-19. Customers can also take advantage of a delayed payment structure or enroll[Read More…]

Thiruvananthapuram, April 2 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday said that there were 21 new coronavirus positive cases taking the total number in the state to 256. “This includes two who had attended Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi. Today there are 1,65,934 under observation, which includes 643 at various[Read More…]

New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) In a move to curb the spread of coronavirus, Meghalaya government has devised a digitally-enabled monitoring mechanism to keep a vigil on the health status and movement of people suspected to be infected with the deadly virus. The tracking system has been developed by the[Read More…]

New York, April 2 (IANS) As novel coronavirus cases continue to increase, health professionals on the front lines face frightening realities, rising anxiety and the very real potential for burnout, and to deal with such situations, mindfulness app can be helpful, say researchers. Mindfulness is when people are centred and[Read More…]

Mumbai, April 2 (IANS) Mumbai is called the city that never sleeps. People here are always on the move. But due to the coronavirus lockdown, silence has been prevailing in the streets of the city of dreams for almost 8 days now. And seeing the empty roads since Janata Curfew,[Read More…]

Chandigarh, April 2 (IANS) A day after testing positive for coronavirus, Padma Shri Nirmal Singh Khalsa, former Hazoori Raagi of the Golden Temple, died of cardiac arrest in Amritsar on Thursday morning. With this, the Covid-19 toll increased to five in Punjab that has registered 47 cases. Singh, 67, had[Read More…]

New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Indian Navy rescued of 10 fishermen stranded onboard fishing boat, of Tamil Nadu origin, off Kochi coast, the force said Thursday. “Indian Navy Ship Nireekshak, a diving support vessel of Southern Naval Command, based at Kochi, on mission patrol along the Kerala Coast came to[Read More…]

Bengaluru, April 2 (IANS) Of the 391 Tablighi Jamaat members identified to have participated in New Delhi’s Nizamuddin mosque from Karnataka in March, 11 tested positive for coronavirus so far, said state Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Thursday. “We have identified 391 Tablighis in the state who went to Nizamuddin[Read More…]

New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) The Indian Chemical Council has sought the Centre’s support, including policy formulation and government investment, for increase in domestic raw material production. In a statement, the industry body said that India’s dependency on China for chemicals across the value chain for broad categories ranges between[Read More…]

Kolkata, April 2 (IANS) A man in his 60s has quarantined himself in a boat in West Bengal’s Malda district after he was advised isolation by health workers for having come to the area from another district in view of the Covid-19 outbreak. Niranjan Haldar, who earns his living singing[Read More…]

New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) The Union Home Ministry on Thursday informed that a total of 9,000 Tablighi Jamaat workers have been identified so far and wholesome efforts are being made to hunt their contacts as the group has emerged as a major source of Covid-19 infection across the country.[Read More…]

Chandigarh, April 2 (IANS) Chandigarh Adviser Manoj Parida has asked the people that who can enforce the curfew better, leopard or police? At his tweet, a city resident replied: “None can stop the 4 aunties in my sector from going on their evening walk post sunset.” Parida replied spontaneously by[Read More…]