Coronavirus

Araria (Bihar): A policeman was forced to do 50 sit-ups here by a senior agriculture officer after he stopped the bureaucrat’s vehicle. The policeman had also asked the bureaucrat to show the mandatory pass.  The pass is mandatory in Bihar for moving during the coronavirus...

Bangkok: The oil market plunged further Tuesday on concerns over a collapse in demand as the pandemic coronavirus leaves factories, cars and airplanes idled around the world. The extreme volatility in energy markets highlights investors’ worries about the duration of the coronavirus outbreak and its...

Kolkata: Three more COVID-19 deaths have been reported in West Bengal. It took the death toll in the state to 15, Chief Secretary Rajiva Sinha said Tuesday. In the last 24 hours, 29 new COVID-19 positive cases have been reported taking the total number of...

Tehran: Iran announced 88 new deaths Tuesday from the novel coronavirus. The country also said it had released more than 1,000 foreign prisoners over the outbreak. According to Iran health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour, the latest fatalities in the past 24 hours brought the total...

New Delhi: Virat Kohli said Tuesday people seem to have become more compassionate while coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. He hoped that the sense of gratitude towards frontline workers like doctors and police will remain always. Online programme Kohli and his wife Anushka Sharma were...

Bhubaneswar: Three doctors and 19 nurses and paramedics have been quarantined in the Jajpur district of Odisha after they came in contact with COVID-19 patients. Jajpur district collector Ranjan Kumar Das said, here Tuesday, the doctors and nurses had come in contact with the COVID-19...

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan may be tested for coronavirus or asked to go into isolation. This is because a well-known philanthropist tested positive Tuesday for the COVID-19 after meeting Khan. Imran Khan’s dilemma Faisal Edhi, son of late philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi and...

New Delhi: Two lawyers, who are members of executive council of Supreme Court Advocate on Record Association (SCAORA), moved the top court Tuesday. They were seeking direction to the Centre for formulating a scheme to support the advocates and other professionals in paying their office...

Mumbai: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has termed last week’s Palghar lynching incident as a ‘blot on humanity’. He asserted that the guilty will get strict punishment as per the law. Probe started on Palghar lynching case Pawar said a criminal investigation department (CID)...

London: Coronavirus-related deaths were about 41 per cent higher in England and Wales than the government’s hospital-only figures. This is according to the official data released here. The cut off time for the information has been mentioned as April 10. The latest figures which was...