Coronavirus

Kabul: A shootout erupted Saturday at a protest in western Afghanistan by residents demanding economic assistance, leading to the deaths of at least six people, including a local reporter and two police officers, officials said. Interior Ministry spokesman Tareq Arian said the protesters had gathered...

Aligarh: A 25-year-old man was thrashed and left unconscious with serious injuries on suspicious of being a ‘coronavirus carrier’ in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh. The incident took place Friday evening outside a chemist shop in the Shivpuri locality of Aligarh. Police have booked six people in...

London: The first Air India flight from the UK, scheduled as part of the Vande Bharat Mission to repatriate Indians stranded overseas due to the coronavirus lockdown, took off from London's Heathrow Airport on Saturday and will land in Mumbai in the early hours of...

Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Saturday said it had brought back around 6,000 residents stranded outside the state and ensured safe return of people of other states stuck here due to the lockdown, virtually refuting the claims of non-cooperation made by Union Home Minister...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Saturday reported 24 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total number of infected persons to 294, Information and Public Relations (I&PR) Department of the state government said. While there were 18 new cases from Ganjam district, three were detected in Mayurbhanj and one each...

Tehran: Iran warned Saturday that coronavirus infections were rising in the southwest despite falls in other regions, as it announced more than 1,500 new confirmed cases. “All provinces are showing a gradual drop in new infections... except for Khuzestan, where the situation is still concerning,”...

Similar to how a smoke detector sounds off an alarm, certain genes sense when a virus enters the body and set off an alarm triggering an immune response in most mammals. According to a recent study published in Frontiers in Immunology, pangolins – mammals which...

New Delhi: Confusion prevailed over the number of deaths due to coronavirus in the national capital, with data from four hospitals showing that 92 people succumbed to the infection as against 68 fatalities reported by the Delhi government. The toll of 68 shared by the...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Health and Family Welfare Department Saturday said that five persons tested positive for COVID-19 earlier have recovered. Of the five cured patients, four are from Balasore and the rest one is from Jajpur. A total of 68 patients have recovered so far in...

New Delhi: In a slugfest over the transportation of stranded migrants to West Bengal, railway officials Saturday said there was no proposal on record so far with the national transporter to run any more ‘Shramik Special’ trains to the state. The Indian Railways reaction came...