Coronavirus

Economic lockdowns and shutdowns across the globe amid COVID-19 outbreak could have multiple second-order impacts such as deflation, loss of output, permanently-changed supply chains and a re-evaluation of regulation in several economies, International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. IMF, the world's largest multilateral lender, Monday...

Ahmedabad: After the news about Tabligh congregation in Delhi turning into a super spreader broke, the right wingers banked on the occasion to propagate Islamophobia. Reports from a government-run Gujarat hospital, segregating COVID-19 patients on religious lines has just manifested the bigotry. However, the nation...

Thiruvananthapuram: The Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) here has developed a much cheaper and faster diagnostic test kit (Chitra Gene LAMP-N) which is highly confirmatory for the diagnosis of COVID-19 that has claimed over 400 lives in the country. “The...

Mumbai: The tally of coronavirus patients here in the financial capital of India crossed the 2,000-mark Thursday with 107 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) informed. According to a BMC release, 107 new persons tested positive for COVID-19...

Bargarh: With cases of coronavirus infection rising in the state, renowned poet Haladhara Nag Thursday started distributing masks at Ghens Bazaar under Sohela block of Bargarh district in an attempt to raise awareness on COVID-19. “Coronavirus has already become a pandemic. To win the battle...

Mumbai: A Mumbai court here Thursday granted bail to the television journalist arrested for allegedly ‘spreading misinformation’ regarding migrant workers. In the report the journalist had said that the government was thinking of starting train services to ferry migrants. It allegedly led to a huge...

New Delhi: Mobile phones, televisions, readymade garments and stationery items can be sold on e-commerce platforms from April 20. These will be available on platforms like Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal, officials said Thursday. A senior Home Ministry official gave the clarification. It came a day...

Melbourne: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) head coach Simon Katich is open to the idea of having the 2020 IPL outside India. He has ‘no doubt’ the cash-rich league will take place in some form later in the year.       The BCCI suspended Thursday the IPL ‘till...

New Delhi: The Indian Railways turned 167 Thursday but for the first time ever in its over one-and-half-century-old life, it celebrated its birthday with its trains standing idle in yards and without carrying passengers amid the nationwide lockdown. It was on April 16, 167 years...

New Delhi: The Centre has brought charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the chief of Tablighi Jamaat Muhammad Saad Kandhalvi. The authorities are blaming the Jamaat for organising a huge congregation in March. They have said that the meeting led to a...