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The state can provide free treatment to the underprivileged without burdening its exchequer if it signs up for the Centre's Ayushman Bharat Yojana, Ghosh noted.

In the SOP, the railways said the responsibility for food, security, health scanning, providing tickets to the stranded will be with the state from which the train is originating.

Senior party leader Ravi Shankar Prasad rejected Gandhi's charge that the app has been outsourced to a private operator and asserted that it has a robust data security architecture.

Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said chief ministers requested PM Modi to tell the nation what is the exit strategy from the coronavirus lockdown

Former Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy has called for citizen-centric measures and stressed the need to lower the cost of living, as he cautioned the state and Central governments about the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on economy and people in-tue...

Without naming anyone, Anil Deshmukh said, "Some people are seeing 'Mungerilal ke haseen sapne' (pipedream)...it is not the time to play politics, but fight coronavirus collectively."

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has urged India to take 'urgent steps' to protect the rights of its minority Muslim community and stop the incidents of 'Islamophobia' in the country.

The opposition party termed the announcements made by RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das a disappointment and sought a sector-specific package from the Modi government.

Priyanka Gandhi said the coronavirus pandemic has brought an economic destruction and industries in the state have suffered while lakhs of weavers are facing problems.

Former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan on Wednesday demanded a thorough probe into Tuesday's gathering of migrants at Mumbai's Bandra railway station and said it was an attempt to disrupt communal harmony and negate the state's efforts to fight th...

In her video message, which came just hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation, Gandhi said there was no greater patriotism than fighting the epidemic together.

On Tuesday, Kerala had to offer an interest rate of 8.96 per cent for Rs 6,000 crore market borrowing for state development loan for a 15-year period.

Gandhi has also written that everyone stands together in this hour as the coronavirus has no race and religion and its effect is the same on everyone.

TMC sources said that the party had been demanding a discussion in Parliament on the spread of coronavirus for days but it was never done and the party had initially decided not to attend the interaction.

Kishor, who was expelled from the JD(U) two months ago, shared a video footage on his Twitter handle, where scores of people can be seen cooped up inside a structure, beating their fists against the gates and pleading that they be allowed to go home.

The Thalassery-Coorg State Highway 30, connecting Kerala with Coorg in Karnataka via Veerajapetta, is a key highway on which cargo lorries ferry essential commodities to Kerala.