Coronavirus

Madrid: Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced Saturday that La Liga can resume from its coronavirus lockdown on the week of June 8. “The resumption of major professional sporting competitions and in particular La Liga will be allowed from the week of June 8,” Sanchez...

New Delhi: The Finance Ministry has ruled out GST waiver or deference to businesses as part of the economic relief package to help them cope with the situation arising in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic and the resultant nationwide lockdown. In discussions within the ministry,...

Melbourne: Australia’s limited over captain Aaron Finch believes cricket boards across the world will have to compromise and make “one big effort” to get the sport back on track following the coronavirus hiatus. There are speculations that the 13th IPL, which was suspended indefinitely due...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday discussed the situation arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic with Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth. Sri Lanka is fighting COVID-19 effectively under Rajapaksa’s leadership, Modi wrote on Twitter. “India will continue to...

Palghar (Maharashtra): Pacer Shardul Thakur Saturday became the first India cricketer to resume outdoor training after a two-month coronavirus-forced break. Thakur, who has featured in one Test, 11 ODIs and 15 T20s, hit a local ground at Boisar in Maharashtra's Palghar district along with some...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha health and family welfare department Saturday said that 62 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered. According to the department, out of the 62, as many as 41 patients recovered from Ganjam. Balasore witnessed 15 recovery cases. Two infected persons were...

Mumbai: Apparently fed up with the COVID-19 situation and personal health issues, senior trade union leader Dada Samant has committed suicide by hanging in suburban Borivali, police said Saturday. He was 92. The Maharashtra General Kamgar Union leader was found hanging at the residence of...

London: Researchers have found that age, male sex, obesity, and underlying illness have emerged as risk factors for severe COVID-19 or death in the UK. According to a study, published in the journal The BMJ, the risk of death increases in the over 50s, as...

Jharsuguda: A one-year-old girl child tested positive for COVID-19 in Jharsuguda Saturday, informed district collector Saroj Kumar Samal in a tweet. The girl child is learnt to have contracted the virus from a five years old boy of the same family that tested positive for...

Bhubaneswar: Deadly coronavirus continues to leave its footprint across Odisha as two more districts—Gajapati and Nabarangpur--reported their first cases Saturday as 80 new cases emerged in the state. Out of the 80 new cases, Ganjam reported 19. Of them, 15 were Surat returnees and one...