Hiding during the day and walking over 20 km everynight has become a routine for Shiv Babu, 23, a textile factory worker, who like scores of migrant labourers around the country is desperately trying to reach his far-off village from the industrial towns and cities of urban India. ....

Indian Railways on Thursday said that it has cancelled all bookings for train tickets made till June 30 and given full refunds, adding that Special and Shramik trains will ply as usual. ....

Favouring the opening up of the industries and economic activities in Delhi, Labour Minister Gopal Rai said this will not just help in boosting the economy but will also give confidence to the migrants to stay back in the city. ....

Although the fourth phase of the lockdown is yet to begin from May 18, the state government in Rajasthan has extended the scope of exemption to bring the business back on track. ....

With 3,722 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, the coronavirus tally in India reached 78,003, the Union Health Ministry stated on Thursday. ....

Two special Kuwait Airways flights carrying 120 passengers each landed in Indore on Wednesday night with students and other tourists from Madhya Pradesh. The first aircraft landed around 8 p.m. ....

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a massive financial package to revive, reform and make the country self-reliant, while at the same time welcoming foreign capital and strengthening of supply chains, former Union Finance Minister P. Chidbambaram said his reaction to the move is "a blank as yesterday PM gave us a headline and a blank page". ....

The Himachal Pradesh government has restarted construction of roads by easing lockdown norms amid the coronavirus pandemic and this help generating employment, an official said on Wednesday. ....

Giving a taste of the hard truth, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Tuesday that coronavirus will continue to remain a reality for some time to come. However, the next lockdown is less likely to be the same as the previous lockdowns. While he refused to divulge more details, stating that the fine print will be announced before May 18, Modi hinted that lockdown 4.0 will be "totally new, totally different". ....

With 3,525 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, the COVID-19 tally in India reached 74,281, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday. ....

Odisha reported 101 COVID-19 positive cases, highest single-day spike so far, taking the coronavirus count in the state to 538 on Wednesday. ....

The Congress on Tuesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his absence of empathy towards migrants, alleging that his address, in which he announced a Rs 20 lakh crore package, "only gave a headline to media'. ....

Soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to the nation on Tuesday evening, Union Home Minister Amit Shah hailed the PMs 'Vocal for Local' remark, saying that "while the local brands helped us in the times of crisis, we should pledge to use more and more local products and make our local global". ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced a massive financial package to revive, reform and make the country self-reliant, while at the same time welcoming foreign capital and strengthening of supply chains . ....

Union Home Minister Amit Shah and former Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday hailed the role of the nurses on the occasion of the International Nurses Day and called them unsung heroes fighting the COVID-19 pandemic as the first line of defence. ....

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been discharged from Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Tuesday, a source said. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation on Tuesday at 8 PM. ....

The COVID-19 tally in India surged past 70 thousand cases, with 3,604 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday. ....

In a news which is expected to bring a sense of relief to the Congress party, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been shifted out of an intensive care unit (ICU) to a private ward, while his Covid-19 test result has also returned negative. ....

Five pilots of Air India along with two technical staff who had earlier tested positive for coronavirus have now tested negative for the infection, sources said on Monday. ....