Coronavirus

St. John’s: Cricket West Indies (CWI) has announced a temporary 50 percent salary cut and funding across the entire regional cricket system, effective from the start of July, due to financial crunch caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision was made after CWI's Board of...

Chennai/Bengaluru: Former world chess champion Viswanathan Anand finally returned to India Saturday after being stuck in Germany for over three months due to the travel restrictions imposed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Anand was in Germany to play in the Bundesliga chess league...

Mumbai: A man broke into a roadside eatery in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal district to steal food as the coronavirus-induced lockdown had left him famished, said an official Saturday. The incident happened Wednesday night at Mor ‘zhunka bhakar’ joint at Gandhi Chowk in Yavatmal, over 700 kilometres...

New York: Global pharmaceutical major Pfizer believes that a vaccine to prevent Covid-19 could be ready by the end of October, the company's CEO Albert Bourla said. Pfizer is conducting clinical trials in the US and Europe for the BNT162 vaccine programme to prevent Covid-19...

Bhubaneswar: Another 75 patients have recovered from COVID-19 in Odisha, state health department said Saturday. Of the recovered patients, Boudh has maximum of 28 patients who have been discharged from COVID-19 hospital. The other districts are Puri (11), Kendrapara (10), Cuttack (9), Khurda (7), Malkangiri...

Puri: In view of COVID-19 outbreak, the Srimandir Managing Committee led by Puri Gajapati Dibyasingha Deb Saturday said that it will organise the Rath Yatra only if the state government assures that no devotees are allowed on the Grand Road during the festival. With this,...

Bant: After two persons tested positive for novel coronavirus in Sendhatira panchayat under Bant block of Bhadrak district Saturday, the sarpanch of the panchayat announced three villages and a local market under the panchayat as containment zone. Using the collector’s power entrusted on sarpanches by...

London: The cricket authorities in England are hoping that ICC would allow coronavirus replacements when the West Indies and Pakistan travel the country for upcoming Test series. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is in talks with the world governing body (ICC) over changes...

Bhubaneswar: With 96 more testing positive for COVID-19 Saturday, Odisha’s tally has gone up to 1,819. Of the fresh cases, Kendrapara district reported 10. All the cases were from quarantine centres. Among them, eight had returned from Gujarat and one each from Maharashtra and Rajasthan....

New Delhi: Slamming Rahul Gandhi for his criticism of the Modi government’s handling of the COVID-19 situation, BJP president JP Nadda said Saturday that the Congress leader’s understanding of these issues is limited and that his statements are not aimed at addressing the crisis but...