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The World Health Organization (WHO) has already declared the corona virus outbreak as global pandemic of international concern and to curb the scourge of the disease 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease, Government of India already declared national lockdown-1 for 21 days on 24th March, 2020. In consecutive ways, nation shows 4 phased lockdown with 3 phased unlock period. Meanwhile, Indian newspapers have already boosted up with this coverage and have shown the proliferated enhancement of space share of positive scientific coverage and always discarded fake news. Here, in this research paper, 10 major circulated English newspapers were selected from 10 metropolitan cities and space share along with total no of science news were analyzed. 10 metro cities are Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Guwahati, Bhubaneswar, Bangalore, Jaipur, Chandigarh and Srinagar. Also 10 selected sample newspapers are The Hindustan Times for Delhi, The Telegraph for Kolkata, The Hindu for Chennai, The Times of India for Mumbai, The Assam Tribune for Guwahati, The New Indian Express for Bhubaneswar, Deccan Herald for Bangalore, The Indian Express for Jaipur, The Tribune for Chandigarh and lastly Kashmir Times for Srinagar. It has been found that; space share of science news has already risen to 64 percent and is still increasing. Another findings has shown that media is giving more attention to publish unscientific advertisements as well as given more emphasis to adjust to a new neo-normal life with social distancing, work from home and virtual meetings for future nation building.