A meeting chaired by Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba reviewed India's preparedness to deal with the virus amid mounting global concern over increasing number of cases in China and several other countries.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
Joginder Tuteja lists films that were severely criticised and yet, emerged blockbusters.
Bollywood wishes #HappyFather'sDay.
The left-hander smashed a 113-ball 151 (8x4, 10x6) to power Madhya Pradesh to victory.
Summary of all Ranji Trophy matches played on Saturday
Aamir, Shah Rukh, Irrfan are just some of the interesting examples.
'For me personally, there was nothing till Aranyak made me say, 'This is it!''
'I'm trying to move away from what I've done before, not because I'm not happy with what it was, but because I have already done that.'
However, the government has enacted an important change to the fixed-term employment framework that may help companies in handing out contractual jobs to its existing permanent workforce.
When the doyenne of television decides to party, all her friends make it a point to attend.
Scindia, who is now with the BJP and took oath as a member from Madhya Pradesh, greeted his bete noire before taking oath. Scindia and Singh had differences that led to Scindia quitting the Congress. Scindia also greeted Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Sukanya Verma looks at the many, many reasons for marital discord reported in Hindi movies.
Despite a good storyline, young enthusiastic cast and an impressive technical crew, the film barely manages to hold your attention, writes S Saraswathi
The danger to India's democracy is coming from recourse to mobocracy encouraged by the anti-Modi gang, argues Vivek Gumaste.
Producer Kumar Mangat is all set to make the new film. Will Vishal Bhardwaj direct it?
A fun excerpt from Diptakirti Chaudhuri's Bollygeek: The Crazy Trivia Guide to Bollywood.
A round up of the fourth and final day's action of the Ranji Trophy matches on Sunday.
Making such publication mandatory would invade in the fundamental rights of liberty and privacy, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court said.
MasterChef was the theme for the 5 year old's birthday party.
Rediff.com's readers share the best of their India travel images. You can share yours too!
The EC said 'there are several scenes depicting a major opposition party as corrupt and showing them in poor light. Their leaders have been depicted in such a manner that their identification is clear and obvious to the viewers'.
Rookie Ashok Kumar strung together a hat-trick of birdies on his closing holes, to leap into the joint-lead alongside defending champion Vivek Bhandari and Shamim Khan at three-under 69 after the opening round.
The movie presents a version of Modi that the bhakts wants the rest of us to see, feels Utkarsh Mishra.
Indian youngsters Vivek Shokeen and Sunil Kumar Sipaeya advanced to the second round of the ITF event in Lahore.
India's COVID-19 curve has been steadily rising throughout the lockdown period with a massive spike in cases in the fourth phase of the lockdown that ended on May 31 and afterwards.
Domestic giants Mumbai continued its winning run in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy thrashing Madhya Pradesh by nine wickets in Mumbai on Monday.
The Malaysians handed India a heartbreaking 6-7 loss in sudden death after an exhausting shoot-off.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
Mane, who qualified third for the final, shot 247.5 to win the silver while Grigorii Shamakov took the gold with 249.2. Aleksa Mitrovic of Serbia won the bronze with a score of 227.9.
What does the box office of Akshay Kumar and Hrithik Roshan's film have to say?
In a thrilling match in Surat, Gujarat defeated Rajasthan "by one over eliminator" after the two teams ended with identical scores in 20 overs and the match was tied.
The huge gulf between the two sides was evident as India bettered its 86-year-old record when it defeated USA with a 24-1 margin in Olympics.
Divij Sharan, Vivek Shokeen, Sunil Kumar Sipaeya and National champion Ashutosh Singh advanced to the last eight stage in the US $10,000 grass court tournament.
Seventh seed Vivek Shokeen defeated Taipei's Huai-En Chang 6-3, 6-4 while third seed Sunil Kumar Sipaeya easily beat Nai-Zheng Yu of China 6-4, 6-1 in the pre-quarter-finals of the ITF tournament in Lahore.
Bollywood actor Anupam Kher, who had criticised those behind a recent flashpoint event at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, has alleged that the university has refused to screen his film "Buddha in a traffic" considering the present atmosphere at the campus, a charge denied by the university.
Gandhi met the president and handed over a memorandum signed by two crore farmers demanding a repeal of the laws, saying they will not benefit farmers or labourers.
