As India gets done with lockdown 4.0 on May 31, the government is set to announce Lockdown 5.0 for two weeks. This new phase of lockdown is supposed to be implemented strictly in 13 cities which account for 70% of total cases of coronavirus in the country. This would be the fifth phase of lockdown ...

The state has said that it would be unable to handle the surge in cases among those who have travelled from Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. Just three days after the start of domestic flights, Karnataka caused a flutter by calling for a ban on flights coming in from five states – ...

The coronavirus pandemic is enormously affecting the world economy. Its effect isn’t constrained to specific geography, religion, culture, or ethnicity, however, envelops pretty much every part of human life. The outbreak of the virus’ has influenced more than 180 nations over the globe, and in India, around 12 million will be pushed to the very ...

Twitter is overwhelmed with praises for the Bollywood star Sonu Sood as he earned a ton of adoration via social media for arranging buses and food for stranded migrant workers during the Covid-19 lockdown. Sood’s Simmba co-star Ajay Devgn, celebrity chef Vikas Khanna, Union minister Smriti Irani, and cricketer Shikhar Dhawan and numerous Bollywood celebs ...

Aiming to protect the rights of migrant workers, Uttar Pradesh’s Yogi Adityanath government recently decided to set up a Migration Commission to ensure the employment of migrant laborers in the state. India’s lockdown imposed to tackle the spread of Coronavirus pandemic has left lakhs of migrant workers across the country in peril. The pandemic lockdown, ...

Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) was already in use among frontline healthcare workers and contacts of confirmed coronavirus cases. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has issued a new advisory that expands the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to more healthcare workers while illuminating its side-effects and efficacy. This anti-malarial drug was already in use as prophylactic among ...

With the second-highest number of cases in the country, the southern state is embarking on an intensive new strategy for containment zones. In order to control the spread of the virus in the 34 most-affected wards in the capital city of Chennai, the health ministry and city corporation launched an intensive ‘micro plan’ spread over ...

While reopening of stadiums and sports complexes after about two months of shutdown has come as a major relief for the sports fraternity in India, the Home Ministry denied the entry public viewing in these facilities. However, taking cognizance of the current crisis, the focus now lies in kick-starting aggressive training of athletes in the ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a reduction in the PF contribution of both employee and the employer to 10% each from the prevailing 12% each for all establishment secured by EPFO for the following 3 months. Employees working in the private sector will take more salary home for May, June, and July – as the ...

Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his speech had also stated that lockdown 4.0 will be different from the past lockdowns and will have new set of rules. On Sunday, the Central Government extended the coronavirus lockdown for two additional weeks till May 31 with relaxations that are probably going to open the economy with ...