Coronavirus

Mumbai: Actress Soha Ali Khan says the lockdown has brought her closer to her family than ever. The actress asserts that she tries to do interesting activities with husband, actor Kunal Kemmu, and daughter Inaaya. Here's how Soha Ali Khan is spending her time during...

Bangalore: The lion's share of Karnataka's 474 COVID positive cases have emerged from Bangalore, followed by Mysuru, Belagavi, Vijayapura, Kalaburagi and others, an official said Friday. "Bangalore leads with 129 cases, followed by Mysuru, 87, Belagavi, 45, Vijayapura, 35, Kalaburagi, 36, and others," said an...

New Delhi: The Centre has already released more than Rs 36,000 crore to the states/UTs in the current financial year (FY2020-21) for the development schemes of the villages, said Union Minister for Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar, Friday....

Paris: France registered 389 deaths caused by the coronavirus, bringing the tally to 22,245, the world's fourth-highest after the United States, Italy and Spain, Director-General of Health Jerome Salomon told a daily conference on the epidemic. The number of people who succumbed to the COVID-19...

Bhubaneswar: Panic has gripped the Odia community in the United States of America (USA) as the novel coronavirus cases in the country has touched a whopping 8,86,709 with 50,243 deaths till Friday. The country records over 2,000 deaths per a day on an average. Fearing...

New Delhi: The total assets under management (AUM) of the six shut funds of Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund stands at over Rs 25,000 crore. The asset under management of the six funds stood at Rs 30,853 crore in March-end but came down to Rs 25,856...

Researchers have discovered that goblet and ciliated cells in the nose have high levels of the entry proteins that the novel coronavirus uses to get into our cells. The identification of these cells could help explain the high transmission rate of the virus. Published in...

Washington:  The death toll due to the coronavirus pandemic in the US has crossed the 50,000 mark, according to Johns Hopkins University. The confirmed coronavirus cases Friday exceeded 2.7 million globally, with more than 192,000 dead, the university said. The US accounted for nearly a...

Geneva: The new coronavirus pandemic could severely disrupt access to anti-malaria nets and drugs in sub-Saharan Africa, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning that malaria deaths risked doubling if efforts are not urgently scaled up. The UN health agency called on countries in sub-Saharan...

India’s novel coronavirus infection trajectory is quite similar to the United States, a top Chinese infectious disease expert has said. Given there were already signs of some degree of community transmission in India, it is more likely to follow the trend of US and Europe...