Coronavirus

New Delhi: The Indian women’s hockey team Friday launched a fun fitness challenge to raise funds for families of migrant labourers. The lives of the migrant workers have been severely affected by the nationwide lockdown to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Rani Rampal’s explanation The 18-day...

Bengaluru:  A team of designers and developers from Samsung Research Institute-Bangalore (SRI-B) has developed a unique ‘hand wash app for Galaxy Watch that prompts users to clean their hands, a key preventive measure in the fight against COVID-19. The UX and wearable team worked round-the-clock...

Islamabad: Just days after the Pakistan governments announcement to relaxing the lockdown, a record number of 23 coronavirus deaths and 627 cases were reported in the last 24 hours, taking the tally of confirmed infections to 7,027, with 134 fatalities as of Friday. Experts fear...

Bhubaneswar: Central Electricity Supply Utility of Odisha (CESU) has announced a special rebate of four per cent on payment of electricity bill for both March and April for domestic consumers. In a notification issued Thursday, CESU said that the special rebate is being announced to allow...

Beijing: China's GDP fell by 6.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2020, the first contraction in the country's economy since 1976, confirming it was seriously impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Friday. The Chinese GDP stood at...

Beijing/Wuhan: China’s coronavirus death toll mounted to 4,632 Friday as the country revised figures in its epicentre Wuhan. The health authorities of China declared with 1,290 additional fatalities. This new declaration was made amid international criticism of under-reporting of COVID-19 data. Figures of coronavirus patients...

Mumbai: Actor Hrithik Roshan's former sister-in-law and Sussanne Khan's sister, Farah Khan Ali, has tested negative for COVID-19 but says she has been quarantined until April 29. Earlier this week, Farah had tweeted that an in-house member had tested positive for coronavirus and that all...

New Delhi: The Centre gave Friday exemptions to a few more areas from the purview of the ongoing lockdown. Among the sectors given exemption were construction activities in rural areas, water supply, and sanitation works. Also functioning of non-banking financial institutions and cooperative credit societies...

Mumbai: Renowned directors and producers, including Ekta Kapoor, Nitesh Tiwari, Aanand L Rai, Sajid Nadiadwala, Dinesh Vijan and Mahaveer Jain, have come together for #IndiaLetsMakeAFilm initiative, to inspire people to make inspiring one-minute films on mobile phones amid the COVID-19 lockdown. The initiative is calling...

Mumbai: India is expected to post a sharp turnaround in 2021-22. This was disclosed Friday by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das who quoted IMF projection amid the COVID-19 crisis.  The IMF projection of 1.9% GDP growth for India is highest in G20,...