Coronavirus outbreak: India gets ready to test 1,00,000 samples dailyIndia has begun worst-case scenario preparations to test 1 lakh samples per day in the coming months, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said in a statement. India currently tests nearly 18,000 samples each day at the government and private facilities across the country. The tests are being conducted at just over 190 testing laboratories, including 136 government labs and 56 private labs. The move to incre...

Live updates on India coronavirus: Essentials will be delivered door-to-door in sealed coronavirus hotspots in Delhi; list of sealed areas to be released tomorrow

A snap poll conducted by apex industry chamber Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on 200 chief executives across sectors found majority of them fearing their revenues would fall more than 10 per cent and profits dip by over 5 per cent during the first six months of the current year 2020-21; Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday spoke to former Presidents, Prime Ministers and leaders of Opposition parties as India continues to witness a spike in coronavirus infections and deaths; Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan said that the Indian economy was facing the 'greatest emergency' since Independence, more acute than the global financial crisis in 2008-09. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: Coronavirus outbreak: Increase testing to avoid another lockdown, says ex-RBI chief Urjit Patel

PM Modi called former Presidents, Pranab Mukherjee and Pratibha Patil, former Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and HD Devegowda, and senior leaders, including Congress's President Sonia Gandhi, Samajwadi Party's Mulayam Singh and Akhilesh Yadav

CPI(M) Polit Bureau also said that on the trust set up for the new fund, the Prime Minister and three other ministers were trustees, without any opposition party or civil society leaders as members

TMC denied allegations as baseless and said BJP should refrain from indulging in cheap politics at this time of crisis

Coronavirus impact: During her press conference, the Finance Minister also announced that under the Ujjwala Yojana, women will be given free cylinders for the next three months

Madhya Pradesh Political Crisis: People have won today in MP, says Jyotiraditya Scindia; \"I have always believed that politics should be the medium of public service, but the state government had deviated from this path. Truth has won again. Satyamev Jayate,\" says Scindia.

The 93-year-old monarch and her 98-year-old husband, Prince Philip, are likely to be placed in quarantine at the royal Sandringham Estate in Norfolk in the coming weeks

kamal nath government: Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday night and the BJP is working on ensuring his entry into the BJP fold

Delhi riots claimed more than 40  lives and hundreds were injured.

Justice Muralidhar had questioned the Delhi police on why they had not registered against BJP ministers who had allegedly given hate speeches

CAA Protests in Delhi:  Officials at Guru Teg Bahadur hospital told agencies the death toll had risen to 20. Hundreds of people have been injured in the violent clashes in Northeast Delhi

Manmohan Singh and Ghulam Nabi Azad will not be attending the banquet thrown for US President Donald Trump as Congress President Sonia Gandhi was not invited

Delhi Election Results: Aam Aadmi won 62 out of 70 seats, whereas BJP was limited to 8 seats despite its best vote share in past 27 years. Congress could not win even a single seat

Delhi Election Results: As counting of votes in 2020 Delhi Assembly election enters its last leg, the AAP has won 51 seats and maintained a lead on 11 seats. Meanwhile, PM Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party has already conceded defeat

The AAP leader who will return to power for the third time thanked the people of Delhi and said the results have ushered a new kind of politics

PM Modi accused the Congress was spreading misinformation about the CAA; he also targeted Pakistan for trying to influence India's Muslims

Economic Survey 2020: India's aspiration to become a $5 trillion economy depends critically on \"strengthening the invisible hand of the market and supporting it with the hand of trust\", shows the survey

Delhi elections 2020: The Union MoS for Finance Anurag Thakur was caught prompting 'Goli Maaro' slogan at a recent rally in Rithala. Here's for more