San Francisco: Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has announced to donate $100 million to US food banks to help them feed a growing number of out-of-job Americans during the ongoing new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In an Instagram post, Bezos said he wants to support...
Read moreBeijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping led the country Saturday in observing a national day of mourning for those who lost their lives in the coronavirus pandemic that originated in the Asian giant last December, it was reported. Clad in black, Xi paid his respects to...
Read moreKabul: Unidentified gunmen attacked two Afghan Presidential Protective Service (PPS) members, killing one and injuring the other on the outskirts of capital Kabul, an official confirmed Saturday. The incident took place at about 8.20 p.m. Friday, after the gunmen opened fire on two Afghan officers,...
Read moreSan Francisco: Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has announced to donate $100 million to US food banks to help them feed a growing number of out-of-job Americans during the ongoing new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In an Instagram post, Bezos said he wants to support...
Read moreWashington: The US has recorded nearly 1,500 coronavirus deaths in a span of 24 hours, the highest number of fatalities registered in a day globally since the pandemic began last December, it was reported. According to figures from the Washington-based Johns Hopkins University's Center for...
Read moreBeijing, April 4 (IANS) A total of 180 patients of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were discharged from hospitals Friday in the Chinese mainland, the National Health Commission said Saturday. Altogether, 76,751 patients had been discharged from hospitals after recovery by the end of Friday,...
Read moreNew York: She’d picked her dress, they’d booked their honeymoon and the wedding was set for the end of March. Then, the coronavirus pandemic hit. So the two young American doctors, Kashif Chaudhry and Naila Shereen, whose whirlwind courtship spun them between New York City...
Read moreNew Delhi: The anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin, which are being considered by some for treating COVID-19, may increase the risk for dangerous abnormal heart rhythms, cardiologists from the United States have warned. The researchers from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and...
Read moreSeoul: Around 500 people remain under coronavirus quarantine across North Korea, state media reported Friday, a sharp drop from some 2,280 a week earlier as Pyongyang keeps lifting the quarantine for persons with no symptoms during the isolation period. North Korea has insisted it has no...
Read moreWashington: The United States (US) criticised Friday a Pakistani court for overturning the death sentence of British-born top al-Qaeda leader who was convicted in the abduction and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl. The US termed the verdict an ‘affront’ to victims of terrorism everywhere....
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For many babus, rules are only for others not for the heaven-born. An IAS officer in Kerala skipped home quarantine...
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The Centre has slashed interest rates on popular small savings schemes – a mainstay of nearly half of the nation’s...
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We select one disease to be mortally afraid of – and ignore all the diseases that we should be scared...
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The unplanned manner in which Prime Minister Modi declared the COVID-linked 21-day lockdown is taking a harsh toll. For instance,...
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