Pakistan to lift lockdown from Saturday
Pakistan's coronavirus lockdown will be lifted on Saturday, Prime Minister Imran Khan said, despite the fact that the number of cases in the country is still accelerating. | Read more|
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Gas leak at factory in India kills 13, hundreds hospitalised
At least 13 people have been killed by a massive gas leak at a chemical plant in southern India, with 800 others taken to hospital. The leak from the LG Polymers plant in the city of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh state came as people slept. | Read more|
COVID-19 : In India, number of cases climb to 52,952
In India, the death toll due to COVID- rose to 1,783 while the number of cases climbed to 52,952 on Thursday, registering an increase of 89 deaths and 3,561 cases in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said. | Read more|
Vizag gas leak disturbing : Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday described the gas leak at a chemical plant in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam as "disturbing" and said the central government is closely monitoring the situation. | Read more|
Russia overtakes Germany, France in Coronavirus cases
Russia’s coronavirus cases overtook France and Germany on Thursday to become the fifth highest number in the world after a record daily rise, and Moscow’s mayor said the real figure, not captured by official statistics, was much higher. | Read more|
Hizbul Mujahideen Top Kashmir militant killed
Indian security forces have killed a prominent militant leader in Kashmir, officials say. Riyaz Naikoo had taken over command of Hizbul Mujahideen group, succeeding Burhan Wani who was killed by security forces in 2016. | Read more|
U.S. rearms to nullify China's missile supremacy
The United States has largely stood by in recent decades as China dramatically expanded its military firepower. Now, having shed the constraints of a Cold War-era arms control treaty, the Trump administration is planning to deploy long-range, ground-launched cruise missiles in the Asia-Pacific region. | Read more|
COVID-19: In India cases rise to 49,391
In India the death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,694 and the number of cases climbed to 49,391 on Wednesday, registering an increase of 126 deaths and 2,958 cases in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said. | Read more|
Maharashtra seeks Central facilities to ramp up ICU beds
Maharashtra government has requested the hospitals under the Railways, the Army and other Central undertakings to make their facilities in the state available to the government which is planning to ramp up the number of ICU beds. | Read more|
Italians claim world's first coronavirus vaccine
Italians are claiming they have made the world's first coronavirus vaccine that work on humans, Science Times reported on Tuesday."According to the tests carried out at Rome's infectious-disease Spallanzani Hospital, an Italian coronavirus vaccine has antibodies generated in mice that work on human cells," the report s | Read more|
India records its biggest single-day spike in coronavirus cases
India has seen its largest ever one-day jump in Covid-19, both in terms of cases and fatalities, with 195 people succumbing to the illness in the space of 24 hours and 3,900 new infections. | Read more|
Israel isolates coronavirus antibody
Israel has isolated a key coronavirus antibody at its main biological research laboratory, the Israeli defence minister said on Monday, calling the step a “significant breakthrough” toward a possible treatment for the COVID-19 pandemic. | Read more|
Chinese report warns Beijing faces Tiananmen-like global backlash over virus
An internal Chinese report warns that Beijing faces a rising wave of hostility in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that could tip relations with the United States into confrontation, people familiar with the paper told Reuters. | Read more|
COVID-19: Three Russian doctors fall from hospital windows
Three frontline health care workers have mysteriously fallen out of hospital windows in Russia over the past two weeks, heightening public attention to the working conditions for doctors and medical professionals amid the coronavirus pandemic. | Read more|
COVID-19 causes blood clots harming organs
An undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, pink, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the | Read more|
Delhi should allow only minimum relaxations: Dr Harsh Vardhan
Delhi should allow "only minimum relaxations" and stringent measures are required to tackle the highly contagious coronavirus in the city, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said this afternoon, adding that this was his "personal opinion". | Read more|
Reliance to sell $750 million stake in unit to Silver Lake
Reliance Industries Ltd said on Monday private equity firm Silver Lake will invest nearly $750 million in its digital arm, days after securing a $5.7 billion investment from Facebook Inc, boosting its efforts to cut debt. The deal adds to a flurry of fund-raising activity announced by the oil-to-telecoms conglomerate i | Read more|
Queue for liquor as Delhi eases some coronavirus curbs
In New Delhi hundreds of people queued outside liquor stores on Monday as the Indian capital began easing some curbs after a 40-day lockdown against the coronavirus, while some offices resumed work with fewer staff and traffic trickled into the streets. | Read more|
COVID-19 : Tanzanian president promises to import herbal tonic
The president of Tanzania, John Magufuli, is sending a plane to Madagascar to fetch a herbal tonic touted as a cure for Covid-19 even as the World Health Organization (WHO) warned there was no proof of any cure. Congo-Brazzaville's president has also promised to import the drink. It is produced from the artemisia plant | Read more|
COVID-19: CIA & MI6 put together 'scientific' dossier
As per news report of RT.COM, The West’s wish to pin the blame on China for the Covid-19 pandemic has been reportedly incarnated in a 15-page dossier compiled by intelligence agencies, which has now leaked, according to reports. | Read more|
COVID-19: Biggest 24-Hour Spike In Coronavirus Deaths
India reported the biggest single-day jump in the number of coronavirus patients with 2,644 new cases in the last 24 hours, including 83 deaths - also the highest - taking the total to 39,980 cases and 1,301 deaths, the Union Health Ministry said today. | Read more|
J&K : Colonel, Major among 5 personnel martyred in encounter
An Army Colonel and a Major were among five security personnel martyred in an encounter at a village in Handwara in north Kashmir that also saw the elimination of two terrorists, officials said on Sunday. Army officers Col Ashutosh Sharma and Major Anuj, and Jammu and Kashmir Police Sub-Inspector Shakeel Qazi were amon | Read more|
Tablighi Jamaat role was most condemnable: Yogi
Holding the Tablighi Jamaat responsible for the spread of COVID-19, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said that being infected with a virus is not a crime but to hide it is definitely a crime. The chief minister said action would be taken against them for the "crime that they have committed". | Read more|
To help fight coronavirus 88 medical staff to be flown from India to UAE
The UAE Embassy in India announced on Saturday that Indian authorities had permitted 88 doctors and nurses to travel to the UAE to help with efforts to beat coronavirus. | Read more|
Aarogya Setu App Must For All Employees
The Home Ministry has clarified on making the coronavirus tracker app Aarogya Setu mandatory for all private and government employees across the country. Anyone attending office anywhere should have the app on their mobile from May 4, the day the two-week extended lockdown kicks in, the government has said. | Read more|
Countries must be ready for virus to jump back: WHO
Countries must lift lockdowns gradually, while still being “on the look-out” for COVID-19 and ready to restore restrictions if the virus jumps back, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. | Read more|
UAE sends medical aid to India
The UAE has sent an aid plane containing seven metric tons of medical supplies to India to bolster the country’s efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19, Emirates News Agency reported on Saturday. The aid will assist approximately 7,000 medical professionals as they work to combat the virus. | Read more|
Julian Assange's partner says his life is in danger
The partner of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Friday his life is in danger while he is held in a London prison during the coronavirus lockdown. As per news report of Reuters, Assange is fighting a request by the United States to extradite him to stand trial for conspiring to hack government computers and espi | Read more|
Indian Navy ready to evacuate stranded citizens in Gulf countries
Indian Navy Chief Admiral Karambir Singh on Friday said his force was ready for evacuating Indian citizens from Gulf countries as soon as it gets the go-ahead from the government. | Read more|
Goa : Liquor traders fear shortage of stocks
Even as the Centre's amended guidelines for the COVID-19 lockdown will open up liquor stores in Goa, traders are concerned that they might run out of stocks, as the ban on foreign imports remains in place. | Read more|
COVID-19: Number of cases climb to 37,336
In India the death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,218 and the number of cases climbed to 37,336 on Saturday, according to the Union Health Ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 26,167, while 9,950 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, the ministry said. | Read more|
North Korea’s Kim makes public appearance
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has made his first public appearance in weeks, at a fertilizer factory north of Pyongyang. The state media reports and photos, however, have not entirely dispelled speculations about his health. | Read more|
India extends lockdown for another two weeks
The Indian Ministry of Home Affairs issued on order under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, to further extend the Lockdown in the country for another two weeks. The lockdown in India was supposed to end on May 4. | Read more|
Ensure UP borders are sealed: Adityanath
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday asked officials to ensure that Uttar Pradesh's borders remain sealed so that people who maybe "coronavirus carriers" cannot enter the state. He gave the directions at a review meeting. | Read more|
Indo-Pak nuclear procurement networks larger than thought
Hundreds of foreign companies are actively procuring components for India and Pakistan’s nuclear programmes, taking advantage of gaps in the global regulation of the industry, according to a report by a U.S.-based research group. | Read more|