Police registered a case against a sarpanch who led 40 persons to offer namaz on Shab-e barat at a mosque in Khairikhurd village of Chhindwara district, police said on Friday. They were, however, granted bail under discretionary powers of the police. ....

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, on Thursday, said a total 6,761 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus have been reported so far in the country. ....

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has directed the Border Security Force (BSF) to stop all the cross-border movement across the India-Pakistan and India-Bangladesh borders amid COVID-19 outbreak. ....

23 more persons tested positive on Friday in J&K as the total number of corona patients crossed the 200-mark. ....

After Orissa, the Punjab Cabinet led by Amarinder Singh on Friday decided to extend curfew in the state by 21 days till May 1. ....

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has hailed the work done by Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs), Auxiliary Nurses and Midwives (ANMs) and Anganwadi workers in fighting coronavirus. ....

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren held an all- party meeting on Friday and informed the state parties that around two lakh people arrived in the state after lockdown was imposed. ....

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh is monitoring nearly 66,036 persons who have been in quarantine for coronavirus. ....

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday indicated that his government was seriously thinking of extending the lockdown as the time did not appear to be right for lifting the restrictions. ....

The scam-tainted Wadhawan brothers who are out on bail in the Yes Bank/DHFL fraud cases were reportedly spotted violating the lockdown in the famed hill-station of Mahabaleshwar, and have now been shunted into quarantine, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader said here on Thursday. ....

Maharashtra recorded 25 deaths in a day, breaking all coronavirus records in the country so far. The number of positive cases increased by 26 on Friday morning, taking the count of such cases to 1,390, officials said. ....

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said the state government will provide ration to the families displaced from Pakistan who are now residing in any district of the state. ....

BSP president Mayawati has demanded stern action against Subrat Pathak, the BJP MP from Kannauj, for his involvement in a case of assault against a Dalit tehsildar. ....

With the continued and intensified surveillance and testing of coronavirus infection inside the hotspots of Gujarat, the health authorities said on Friday that 46 new confirmed positive cases have been detected in the last 12 hours in the state. Gujarat has now crossed the 300 mark with 308 positive cases and 19 deaths. ....

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday wrote to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to emphasize upon the need to test and treat more people and has said that the population of the state is around 23 crore but only 7000 tests have been done. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday told President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu that the country is committed to jointly fight the coronavirus pandemic. ....

With the nationwide 21-day Covid-19 lockdown set to continue for another two weeks, Karnataka has postponed board exams for class 10 and one paper of class 12, state education minister S. Suresh Kumar said on Thursday. ....

Assam reported its first death due to novel coronavirus on Friday even as the state's total positive cases went up to 29, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. ....

As thousands of nurses across the country light the lamps of hope in the hospitals, several leading ladies play a vital role in India's war room to contain the spread of dreaded pandemic. ....

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday said that a total of 5,865 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus have been reported so far in the country. Of these, 5,218 are active cases. ....