A massive spike in ticket cancellations, along with a drop in bookings, was reported by the aviation industry for Monday's flights as several states moved to limit air operations

Six days after the beginning of lockdown 4.0, the Indian government on Sunday came up with new Standard Operating Protocol (SOP) to fly out those who are stranded in India due to the lockdown

A record 6,977 new coronavirus cases and 154 more fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours in India, taking the total number of such cases on Monday to 1,38,845, a Health Ministry data revealed

Sikkim reported its first coronavirus case and Arunachal Pradesh a fresh case while Assam registered 64 new cases in the past 24 hours, taking the state's total tally to 392 as on Sunday night

Maharashtra - India's most industrialised state that is also home to the country's financial and entertainment capital - saw its COVID-19 tally crossing the 50K mark with the highest single-day infections of 3,041 patients catapulting the number of cases to 50,231, besides 58 deaths, health officials said. This comes to roughly one death every 25 minutes, and a staggering average 127 new cases recorded every hour in the state

The Covid-19 blow appears to have forced even those startups and unicorns that have managed to raise new funding go for a leaner workforce, firing employees in thousands. Foodtech unicorn Swiggy, for example, raised almost Rs 1,185 crore this year as part of its Series -I round

With 6,768 new cases on the second day in a row, the total case count of the novel coronavirus in the country crossed 1.30 lakh mark and docked at 1,31,868 on Sunday, the Health Ministry data revealed. At least 147 fatalities have also been recorded since Saturday, said the Health Ministry

A charity organisation has developed a mobile intensive care unit equipped with two ventilators and three beds in a bus for COVID-19 patients

International flight operations from India might commence from July depending upon the circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak, Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said

Exodus of people from southern and western regions of India to the northeast region has led to a steep rise in COVID-19 positive cases, especially in Assam, where 132 new cases have been reported in the past 24 hours, taking the state's tally to 346 on Saturday

A large swarm of locusts from Africa is headed towards Gujarat. According to the Jamnagar District Collector, the swarm may affect the Jamnagar, Devbhumi Dwarka and Porbandar districts, the westernmost coastal districts of the state

The coronavirus cases count in the national capital jumped to 12,910 with 591 new cases reported in the last 24 hours and the toll reached 231 with 23 deaths in past 24 hours, the Delhi Health Department said on Saturday

The Muslim neighbourhood in south Kashmir's Tral area helped perform the last rites of an elderly Kashmiri Pandit on Saturday

As Lockdown-4 brought in easing of restrictions across the country, India crossed the 1.25 laKH mark coronavirus cases with the total number rising to 1,25,101, the Union Health Ministry data revealed on Saturday

Air passengers gave an overwhelming response to the re-commencement of passenger flight services from Monday (May 25), as healthy demand was witnessed for tickets on all metro routes