Srinagar: The lockdown on the streets has led to increased activity in the kitchen. With all family members together at home, and with all day to spare, and with all restaurants and food delivery closed, cooking has become a necessity, and necessity is the mother of invention. Recipes on the internet, especially on YouTube, have […]
New Delhi: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 686 and the number of cases climbed to 21,700 in the country on Thursday, with 34 more deaths and 1,229 fresh cases being reported since Wednesday evening, according to the Union Health Ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 16,689 as 4,324 people […]
Bangkok: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told his Southeast Asian counterparts on Thursday that China is taking advantage of the world’s preoccupation with the coronavirus pandemic to push its territorial ambitions in the South China Sea. Pompeo made the accusation in a meeting via video to discuss the outbreak with the foreign ministers of […]
Beijing: China could have reported over 2.32 lakh COVID-19 cases by mid-February — more than four times of what was officially announced — if it had followed a broader criterion to count the total number of infections, a new study has said. “We estimated that there were at least 2,32,000 infections in the first epidemic […]
Paris: More than 180,000 people in the world have died from the novel coronavirus, nearly two-thirds of them in Europe, since it emerged in China last December, according to an AFP tally based on official sources. In total, 180,289 deaths have been recorded worldwide for 2,596,383 infections, according to the tally at 1740 GMT. There […]
Washington: Struggling to restore normalcy in the US where COVID-19 has claimed the lives of more than 47,000 people and infected over 8,52,000, President Donald Trump has said that the the country was “attacked”. “We were attacked. This was an attack. This wasn’t just the flu by the way. Nobody has ever seen anything like […]
J&K Covid-19 tally crosses 400
Srinagar: Kashmir recorded another major spike in Covid-19 cases on Wednesday after twenty-seven persons tested positive for the new virus in the valley, taking the total number of cases to 407 in Jammu and Kashmir. According to officials, all the new Coronavirus patients are from Kashmir as no fresh Covid-19 case has been reported in […]
NEW DELHI: The countrywide COVID-19 death toll rose to 652 and the number of cases to 20,471 on Wednesday, an increase of 49 fatalities and 1,486 cases since Tuesday evening, according to the Union Health Ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 15,859, while 3,959 people have been cured and discharged, the ministry […]
MADRID: Spain on Wednesday said another 435 people died of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, a slight increase in the figures for a second day running and bringing the overall death toll to 21,717. Spain has suffered the third-highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the world after the United States and Italy, with infections […]
Srinagar: Pulwama and Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir have become coronavirus-free as all four patients in the two districts have recovered from the infection, according to a bulletin issued by the Union Territory’s administration on Wednesday. While Pulwama had reported three cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, Kishtwar had one. All three coronavirus patients […]