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Five other patients who tested positive on Saturday are all men with history of travel to Dubai, USA and Sri Lanka, health department officials said.

Passengers on the flight, which had been due to arrive in Delhi early on Saturday, included a pregnant woman who needed medical treatment on returning to Amsterdam.

Other directives directed at the IT and biotech companies included deploying only those employees working on mission critical projects and essential services in office, and releasing all the remaining employees to work from home.

Senator Kelly Loeffler sold millions of dollars in shares in the weeks after lawmakers were first briefed on the virus, according to public filings.

HUL will donate 2 crore pieces of Lifebuoy soaps in the next few months to the sections of the society which need it the most.

Amid reports of people returning from abroad including the two confirmed coronavirus afflicted in the state defying directives to remain in self-isolation, Banerjee on Friday warned that the government would put under forced quarantine those not heeding i...

A 19-year-old man who returned from the UK has tested positive for coronavirus, the second confirmed case in Odisha, state government's chief spokesperson for COVID-19 Subroto Bagchi said.

The release came after the six-week stay on the Bombay High Court order, granting the former media baron bail in the murder case, ended on Thursday and the CBI not moving an appeal before the Supreme Court.

The state-run power giant has issued suitable advisories for its employees posted at various units and offices in line with the advisory issued by the government to deal with coronavirus.

Hearing a petition, the court gave instructions to the government to reschedule the exams which were to be held between March 23 and 30.

Accusing the government of putting everyone at risk, O'Brien said while Prime Minister Modi has urged countrymen to self-isolate themselves, the Parliamentary is still in session.

The decision was announced following a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The state government had drawn flak for asking universities to conduct exams as per schedule.

The four convicts - Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta, Akshay Thakur, Mukesh Singh - were hanged to death at 5.30 am on Friday, the first time that four people were hanged simultaneously in Tihar Jail.

One of them, however, who had mild cough, was taken to the civic-run Naidu Hospital, an official said.

The SFIO, which comes under the corporate affairs ministry, is conducting probes into the affairs of Rotomac group of companies and Frost International. Both have significant liabilities towards various public sector banks.

The 46-year-old lawyer was accused of exploiting loopholes in the system to save his clients from execution.