Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Thursday increased the corpus of its contingency fund five times from Rs 400 crore to Rs 2,000 crore to meet the expenses to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and for treatment of patients. A proposal in this regard made by the...

Bhubaneswar: Amid spurt in COVID-19 cases, the Odisha government has promulgated an ordinance with provision of imprisonment up to two years for those who violate the epidemic regulations, official sources said Thursday. The ordinance amends a section of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, they said. As...

Washington: With a startling 16.6 million people seeking jobless benefits last week, the United States has reached a grim landmark: Roughly one in 10 workers have lost their jobs in just the past three weeks. The figures collectively constitute the largest and fastest string of...

New Delhi: Ride-hailing major Uber said Thursday it will provide grants totalling Rs 25 crore to its driver-partners in India to support them amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The US-based company is also looking at raising an additional Rs 25 crore through employee and third-party...

New Delhi: The Delhi Minorities Commission (DMC) has asked the city’s health department to stop mentioning Nizamuddin Markaz in its daily bulletins on coronavirus cases. In a letter to the secretary, Delhi Health Department, chairman of the commission Zafarul Islam Khan asked the department to...

New Delhi: The telecom industry has rejected the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (Trai) call to provide talktime credit and extended validity to all pre-paid mobile phone users. It said telecos had offered benefits worth over Rs 600 crore to low-income subscribers to stay connected...

Bhopal: Two junior government doctors, including a woman, have alleged they were beaten up by police personnel who accused them of ‘spreading coronavirus’. Once the allegation surfaced, the authorities were forced to take disciplinary action against a constable and order a probe into the incident...

Shanghai: Chinese football clubs look set to become the latest to cut player salaries as teams throughout world football attempt to offset the financial blow of the coronavirus pandemic. Lionel Messi’s Barcelona and Cristiano Ronaldo’s Juventus have both made similar moves, while Real Madrid players...

Beijing: China denied Thursday any cover-up in reporting the initial information of the novel coronavirus outbreak in December last as it put up a staunch defence of World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, refuting US President Donald Trump’s allegation that he (Ghebreyesus )...

Paris: The worldwide number of fatalities from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 88,981 Thursday, according to a tally compiled by this agency from official sources. More than 1,519,260 declared cases have been registered in 192 countries and territories since the epidemic first emerged in...