Coronavirus

London: N’Golo Kante has been allowed to skip Chelsea’s return to training due to his coronavirus fears. The French World Cup winner joined up Tuesday with Frank Lampard’s squad as Chelsea resumed training. But the 29-year-old N’Golo Kante missed Wednesday's small group practice with the...

Kolkata: With cyclone Amphan wreaking havoc in West Bengal, including Kolkata, senior medical practitioners at the frontline in the war against COVID-19 are apprehensive that the number of cases would rise substantially in the days ahead due to cyclone Amphan. This is because the social-distancing...

Moradabad: Two bar dancers and their three male colleagues, kept in a quarantine facility here after their return from Mumbai, have been booked for creating ruckus on being denied liquor, police said Thursday. SHO Jyoti Singh of an all-women police station in Moradabad said a...

London: Drug maker ‘AstraZeneca’ secured its first agreement Thursday for 400 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. ‘AstraZeneca’ has been provided with USD one billion to go had and make the vaccine. Order placed The Anglo-Swedish company reported it had received the money from the...

Baliguda: As many as 15 migrant workers from Sirttiguda panchayat under Baliguda subdivision of Kandhamal district continue to remain stranded at Chittoor town of Andhra Pradesh. Their plight has escalated as they are unable to return home even though their family members in Odisha have...

New Delhi: India and South Africa could play three T20 Internationals at the end of August as part of a prior “agreement”, provided the situation arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic improves substantially for governments on both sides to give a go-ahead. The fixtures are...

Washington: Scientists have proposed a new truncated process for developing vaccines quickly during the COVID-19 pandemic. They want a fast start and many steps executed in parallel to curtail time in finding a proper vaccine. They say that in the present situation if prolonged processes...

New Delhi: Amazon India said Thursday it is launching its food delivery operations in select parts of Bangalore. It will see the e-commerce giant compete against major players like ‘Zomato’ and ‘Swiggy’ in India. Amazon India has been testing the service for a few months...

Lucknow: A day after the standoff between the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh government and the Congress over the latter’s offer to provide 1,000 buses for migrants, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra claimed those trying to help stranded labourers are being jailed and asked party workers to carry on...

New Delhi: Sparring has been declared prohibited for contact disciplines. This was announced by the Sports Authority of India (SAI) while unveiling Thursday the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for training. SAI however, did not say when exactly sparring will resume amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Sparring...