Mumbai, April 16 (IANS) “Marzi” actress Pavleen Gujral is doing a lot of things during the lockdown period. Cleaning every nook and corner of her house is one of them. She says it’s therapeutic and relaxing for her. “I have set a timetable for myself now. I had set it[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) A sense of fear has gripped the residents of Shivalik in Malviya Nagar after 72 families have been put in quarantine following a delivery agent in the area testing positive for Covid-19. Residents including the elderly, in the vicinity of the house where the food[Read More…]
San Francisco, April 16 (IANS) US-based action camera manufacturer GoPro has announced a $100 million reduction to 2020 operating expenses including a workforce reduction of more than 20 per cent, over 200 employees, due to COVID-19 impact. Making the announcement on Wednesday, GoPro said it plans to further reduce non-headcount[Read More…]
Los Angeles, April 16 (IANS) After the success of the web series “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem And Madness”, Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage — better known by his stage name Joe Exotic — is in talks to host his own radio show from jail. He is a zoo operator, police officer, internet[Read More…]
Shahjahanpur, April 16 (IANS) The Shahjahanpur district unit of Uttar Pradesh Rural Journalists Association (GRPA) on Thursday said that the attempt to suppress the voice of the IANS news agency by some alleged Tablighi Jamaat members is an attack on the fourth pillar of democracy, adding that the culprits must[Read More…]
By Jagannath Chatterjee New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) Soccer entrepreneur Ranjit Bajaj might have sold his stakes in I-League club Minerva Punjab FC, but he has not lost sight of his ultimate goal of producing world-class footballers in India. In fact, Bajaj will continue to run the Minerva Football Academy[Read More…]
Tokyo, April 16 (IANS) A new roadmap for the postponed Tokyo Olympic Games is likely to be unveiled by May 2020, organizers said on Thursday after a teleconference with the International Olympic Committee (IOC). “The details of planning for the Olympics in 2021 are being examined this month with a[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Defence Ministry has requested states to release the disaster response fund to cantonment boards to intensify their fight against the spread of coronavirus. Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar had requested chief secretaries across the country to release State Disaster Response Fund to the cantonment boards[Read More…]
Bengaluru, April 16 (IANS) Karnataka registered one coronavirus death and 36 more positive cases, raising the state’s tally to 315, an official said on Thursday. “Till 5 p.m. Thursday, cumulatively 315 Covid positive cases have been confirmed in the state, it includes 13 deaths and 82 discharges,” said a health[Read More…]
Noida, April 16 (IANS) Covid-19 cases continued to rise in Noida as the city reported 12 new infections in the last 24 hours, taking the positive cases count to 92, a health official said on Thursday. The official said that out of the 92 cases so far, 26 corona-infected patients[Read More…]
Mumbai, April 16 (IANS) In a significant announcement, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday said that Mumbai has been spared “community transmission” of Covid-19. The declaration came against the backdrop of the country’s commercial capital recording the highest number of Covid-19 deaths at 114 and 1896 positive cases in[Read More…]
Chennai, April 16 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday said the final college semester exams will be held in the next academic year. In a statement issued here, the government said educational institutions in the state were closed on April 17 to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Since the[Read More…]
Mumbai, April 16 (IANS) Actress Shama Sikander and her beau James Millirion have made some funny yet educative videos on precautions to take during the COVID-19 pandemic. In one video, posted on TikTok, Shama plays the coronavirus while James just sanitises his hands to keep the virus away. In another[Read More…]
Los Angeles, April 16 (IANS) “Queer Eye” star Antoni Porowski’s life experience as a sexually fluid man has inspired a rom-com, which is being developed by Netflix. According to sources, the streaming platform is working on a feature titled “Girls & Boys”, which is loosely based on Porowski’s real-life dating[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) With the lockdown due to Covid-19 pandemic affecting most sectors of the economy, Delhi Cabinet Minister Gopal Rai said, here on Thursday, the state government was making all efforts to help the labourers in distress in the national capital. Speaking to IANS, Rai said in[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram, April 16 (IANS) Kerala On Thursday reported seven new coronavirus positive case in the past 24 hours, and the total number of people currently under treatment is 147, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said. The cumulative number of cases, including those cured, is 394. “We are doing well in bringing[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) After the Delhi government announced that it would give ration to the non-ration card holders and started issuing ‘e-Coupons’ to the poor to get the food grains free of cost, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said about 15 lakh people have applied for it. “We all[Read More…]
By Sfoorti Mishra New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) Till some time back, people were not much aware about viruses and their characteristics. However, that has changed ever since the coronavirus pandemic started to wreck havoc across the globe. Every other day now, researchers are unearthing a new angle with regard[Read More…]
Washington, April 16 (IANS) Using reanalysed data from NASAs Kepler space telescope, a team of scientists has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star’s habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water. Out of all the exoplanets found by Kepler, this distant[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) Leading Indian Institutes of Technology campuses including the IIT-Bombay and IIT-Delhi will not be participating in any of the Times Higher Education (THE) – World University Rankings this year, a statement by IIT Delhi said. According to the statement, these IITs may participate in the[Read More…]
Madrid, April 16 (IANS) Spanish basketball star Pau Gasol, a six-time All-Star and two-time NBA champion, aims to become a five-time Olympian at the age of 41 in the summer of 2021. The Barcelona-born center planned to play for Spain at the Olympics in Japan this summer, but the COVID-19[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) South Delhi Administration is set to carry out sanitation, door-to-door screening and testing of people in Safdarjung Enclave’s B Block area after four members of a family tested positive for the deadly coronavirus. According to District Magistrate B.M. Mishra, contact tracing showed that one of[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said that doctors here will be trying out the plasma technique on coronavirus patients, after the Union government gave its nod for the same. Addressing the media, Kejriwal said this was a little hope when everyone is very[Read More…]
Mumbai, April 16 (IANS) Actress Bhumi Pednekar will discuss the importance of staying positive amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. The chat session will see Bhumi speak to the spiritual leader on the need to focus on mental health during the lockdown, and the social[Read More…]
Tokyo, April 16 (IANS) The postponed Tokyo Olympics can be an important economic stimulus for the Japanese economy in the post-coronavirus era, according to International Olympic Committee’s John Coates. The lockdowns and restrictions on movements due to the virus around the world have delivered a significant blow to the global[Read More…]
