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Death toll due to COVID-19 touches 437; cases climb to 13,387

New Delhi:  The death toll due to coronavirus rose to 437 and the number of cases to 13,387 in the country on Friday, according...

China revises coronavirus figures in epicentre Wuhan; death toll jumps to 4,632

Beijing:  China's coronavirus death toll mounted to 4,632 on Friday as the country revised figures in its epicentre Wuhan with 1,290 additional fatalities amid...

Coronavirus-hit Chinese economy shrinks 6.8 pct in Q1, worst since 1976

Beijing,:  China's GDP took the worst hit since the disastrous Cultural Revolution in 1976, plummeting by 6.8 per cent in the first quarter of...

Oil climbs as Trump lays out reopening of virus-hit US

Singapore: Oil prices pushed higher Friday as President Donald Trump's plan for a reopening of the virus-battered United States offset worries about a devastating...

Militant killed in encounter with security forces in Shopian

Srinagar: A militant was killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district on Friday, the Army said. The encounter began...

14 Kashmir residents head home after quarantine period ends in Amritsar

Jammu : Fourteen people, including nine medical students, who were quarantined in Punjab's Amritsar for nearly a month after arrival from Pakistan, were sent...

Honda India Foundation pledges Rs 11 crore towards relief efforts

New Delhi: Honda India Foundation, the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm of all Honda group companies in India, Thursday pledged Rs. 11 crore aid...

Police books man who reached home from Maharashtra in truck carrying essential items

Jammu : A man was booked on Thursday for allegedly hiding information about travelling through various coronavirus red zones on his way home in...

Waqf boards told to implement strict social distancing during Ramzan

NEW DELHI: Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday directed state waqf boards to ensure strict implementation of lockdown and social distancing guidelines...

Mask-wearing, social distancing should be enforced strictly: MHA on lockdown

NEW DELHI: The Union home ministry on Thursday said some rules such as wearing face masks, practising social distancing and no gathering of five...

China refutes allegations on coronavirus ‘originating from Wuhan lab’

BEIJING: China is refuting allegations that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated in a laboratory near the city of Wuhan where contagious samples were...

India’s covid tally modest considering its huge population: Experts

NEW DELHI: India needs to “significantly ramp up” the number of tests done across the country to trace COVID-19 infection if the virus is...

IPL 2020 suspended till further notice: BCCI

New Delhi: The BCCI on Thursday suspended the 2020 Indian Premier League "till further notice" in the wake of the Covid19 pandemic, which has...

Dhoni asked Shami to play 2015 WC semi with a knee as big as thigh

NEW DELHI: A serious knee injury had left Mohammed Shami virtually immobile prior to India's 2015 World Cup semi-final against Australia but skipper Mahendra...

Sharath is highest-ranked Indian again at 31, Mukherjee breaks into top-100

NEW DELHI: Veteran table tennis player Sharath Kamal on Thursday surpassed compatriot G Sathiyan to become the highest-ranked Indian in the ITTF world rankings,...

Woman travels 2,700 km across six states to meet ailing son in hospital

Kottayam/Thiruvananthapuram :A 50-year-old woman travelled 2700 km in a car crisscrossing 6 states to meet her critically ill son, a BSF man in Jodhpur,...

COVID-19: Rajnath reviews preventive measures taken by 62 cantonment boards across country

New Delhi:  Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday reviewed the preventive measures taken by 62 cantonment boards across the country to contain the spread...

MHA warns govt officials against holding Zoom meetings

New Delhi:  Zoom meeting platform is not safe and it is not to be used for official purposes by government officials, the Home Ministry...

Record 22 million have sought US jobless aid since virus

Washington:  The wave of layoffs that has engulfed the US economy since the coronavirus struck forced 5.2 million more people to seek unemployment benefits...

Mask-wearing, social distancing should be enforced strictly: MHA on lockdown

New Delhi,: The Indian home ministry on Thursday asserted that rules such as wearing face masks, practising social distancing and no gathering of five...

J&K police books man who reached home from Maharashtra in truck carrying essential items

Jammu: A man was booked on Thursday for allegedly hiding information about travelling through various coronavirus red zones on his way home in Jammu...

Russia, US should help each other during pandemic: Kremlin

Moscow:  Russian President Vladimir Putin believes the global coronavirus pandemic is an opportunity for his country to work together with the United States, the...

COVID-19 death toll touches 414, cases climb to 12,380

New Delhi:  The death toll due to coronavirus rose to 414 and the number of cases to 12,380 in the country on Thursday, according...

Google launches ‘journalism relief fund,’ following Facebook

Washington: Google said Wednesday it will launch an emergency fund to help local news outlets struggling to maintain operations in the face of the...

South Korean ruling party wins vote held amid virus fears

Seoul:  The ruling liberal party secured a resounding victory in South Korea's parliamentary elections, which had the highest turnout in nearly three decades despite...

Medical intelligence sleuths tracked, warned of new virus

Washington:  In late February when President Donald Trump was urging Americans not to panic over the novel coronavirus, alarms were sounding at a little-known...

IMF backs India’s ‘proactive’ COVID-19 response

Washington:  The International Monetary Fund Wednesday said that it supports India's proactive decision of a imposing a nationwide lockdown in its fight against coronavirus. A...

China dispatches 650,000 medical kits to India to fight COVID-19: Indian envoy

Beijing:  China on Thursday dispatched 650,000 coronavirus medical kits to India to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic, Indian Ambassador to Beijing Vikram Misri said. Over...

US has ‘passed the peak’ on new coronavirus cases, says Trump

Washington:  The US has "passed the peak" on new coronavirus cases, President Donald Trump has said and predicted that some states would reopen this...

Fresh guidelines for lockdown: Govt bars all public activities

NEW DELHI: Fresh guidelines were issued by the government on Wednesday for enforcing the second phase of the coronavirus lockdown, with the Union home...

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