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"Dhoni finishes off in style. A magnificent strike into the crowd! India lift the World Cup after 28 years!" this commentary by Ravi Shastri of M.S. Dhoni after the latter led India to a win in the 2011 World Cup final at the Wankhede Stadium with a humongous six off Sri Lanka pacer Nuwan Kulasekara still reverberates in the ears of millions of Indians.....
President Ram Nath Kovind and Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu will on Friday hold a videoconference meeting with Governors, Lieutenant Governors (LGs) and Administrators of states/UTs to bolster the efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus amid a nationwide lockdown. ....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday once again reached out to the nation amid the Lockdown to spread a message of positivity, community and strength and he urged each one to light up a candle or diya on April 5 at 9 p.m. for nine minutes to dispel the darkness and gloom brought by the outbreak of the deadly novel coronavirus.....
The total number of confirmed cases of novel coronavirus in India surged to 2301, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Friday.....
India reported six fresh deaths in the last 24 hours due to novel coronavirus (Covid-19) taking the total death toll to 68 and the total number of confirmed cases to 2,902, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday.....
Flag carrier Air India on Saturday commenced the first cargo flight between Shanghai and Delhi.....
The Centre on Saturday said that under the "Lifeline Udan" initiative, 107 flights have transported over 138 tonnes of medical supplies across the country till April 3.....
Actor-filmmaker-politician Kamal Haasan has written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi stating that the decision to impose a 21-day national lockdown, in a bid to battle the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, was a wrong one.....
Five Indian Army special forces soldiers and five terrorists were killed in Sunday's hand-to-hand combat and gunfight on the Line of Control, in this year's bloodiest encounter in any operation against militants in Jammu & Kashmir. ....
As India has entered the third week of its 21-day nationwide lockdown, the total number of active cases of Coronavirus has reached 3981 on Tuesday morning. Maharashtra continues to remain the worst affected with 748 total confirmed cases so far and 45 deaths followed by 621 total cases in Tamil Nadu. The southern state has witnessed 5 deaths so far.....