The central government on Saturday declared coronavirus as a national 'disaster' and announced to provide ex-gratia relief of Rs 4 lakh to the families who died of the virus. ....

Six people are in isolation in hospital while 1,977 are under home surveillance among the 2,56,682 people screened in West Bengal since the global outbreak of coronavirus. No one has tested positive for the fatal disease in the state so far, according to a health department official. ....

At least 88 people, mostly tourists, were rescued from a boat that capsized on the Arabian Sea near the Mandwa Jetty Raigad, here on Saturday morning, a police official said. ....

National Conference President and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah met with his son Omar Abdullah on Saturday at Hari Nivas, a day after the Public Safety Act (PSA) was revoked against him. ....

Agra district authorities have managed to trace back a suspected case of coronavirus who fled from her Bengaluru home. ....

Delhi Finance Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday said COVID-19 is not just a health crisis but is going to cause the most dangerous economic crisis in the world, urging the GST Council to discuss and take steps to avoid system failure. ....

Panic gripped Nagpur as four suspected coronavirus patients ran away from a private hospital late on Friday night, officials said here on Saturday. ....

More snowfall in Shimla, Dalhousie and higher reaches of Himachal Pradesh on Saturday intensified the cold wave conditions in the state. ....

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has cancelled its three-day annual meeting of its highest decision-making body scheduled to begin in Bengaluru from Sunday due to coronavirus, said RSS general secretary Suresh 'Bhaiyyaji' Joshi. ....

The Rajasthan government has decided to shut all schools, colleges, coaching centres, gymnasiums, movie theatres across the state till March 30 in an effort to stop the spreading of the novel coronavirus. ....

As his Congress government in Punjab is about to complete its three years, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, who has been lying low since his resignation from the state Cabinet in July last, on Saturday launched his own channel on YouTube to share his views. ....

India reported its second death due to coronavirus on Friday as a 68-year-old woman from west Delhi who had tested positive for COVID-19 died at a hospital here, the Union Ministry for Health and Family Welfare said on Friday. ....

The total number of COVID-19 cases in India touched 81 on Friday, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Lav Agarwal said. ....

With one more person returning from Italy testing positive for COVID-19 at the Indian Army's quarantine facility in Manesar, the number of cases in India reach 81. Following the first death reported in Karnataka's Kalaburgi, all states have pulled up their socks. ....

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress MLAs gathered at Raja Bhoj airport here on Friday after they got to know that MLAs supporting Jyotiraditya Scindia were returning from Bengaluru. ....

The fifth coronavirus positive case in Karnataka has emerged to be a 26-year-old Google employee, the company confirmed on Friday. ....

Senior National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah on Friday promised to be in the Parliament in the next two weeks as he recovers from an eye surgery, the former J&K Chief Minister told the media as he walked out free after being in detention for seven months ever since the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5 last year. ....

Two persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Nagpur, taking the total number of cases in Maharashtra to 16, a health official said here on Friday. ....

Vinay Sharma, one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case on Friday approached the Delhi High Court alleging constitutional irregularities committed by the Delhi government while recommending his mercy plea to the President. ....

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has released a video clip on the social media to talk about creating public awareness on coronavirus and appealed to the people to be more cautious than before. ....