Seoul, April 12 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presided over a politburo meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party, discussing anti-coronavirus measures, budget issues and organizational matters, a state-media report said on Sunday. The politburo meeting held on Saturday suggests that a key session of the country’s Supreme People’s Assembly[Read More…]
Madrid, April 12 (IANS) As Spain prepares to allow non-essential workers to resume work from Monday, authorities have warned that the move was not a de-escalation of the measures in place and that the quarantine would remain until at least April 26. Saturday’s data continued to reflect a downward trend[Read More…]
Ranchi, April 12 (IANS) Jharkhand has reported second death due to coronavirus and total number of positive cases in the state has gone up to 17, health officials said. The second death was reported at trauma centre of Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (RIMS), Ranchi on Sunday. The deceased is[Read More…]
Nairobi, April 12 (IANS) Kenya will pay hundreds of its sportspersons, who will be dimmed vulnerable from the coronavirus, to help them endure the suffering and continue to train. Sports Principal Secretary Joe Okudo on Saturday confirmed that the government will compensate the athletes, especially those who were part of[Read More…]
BY VISHAL GULATI Chandigarh, April 12 (IANS) Bird photography as a hobby and profession has taken off to a major extent in India. It has led to important discoveries of species not previously known from the country, a globally renowned ornithologist said on Sunday. In his latest paper published in[Read More…]
Washington, April 12 (IANS) The number of COVID-19 cases on USS Theodore Roosevelt, the nuclear-powered American aircraft carrier, has increased to 550, the US Navy said. In an update on Saturday, the Navy said that 92 per cent of the carrier’s crew members have been tested for COVID-19, with 550[Read More…]
Manchester, April 12 (IANS) Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba missed most of the 2019/20 season due to injury and said that he is raring to go now that he is all but fully fit. “I’m already training and touching the ball,” Pogba told the club’s podcast. Pogba said that he[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Total number of confirmed cases of novel coronavirus in India climbed to 8,356, with 909 fresh cases and 34 new deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the data published by the health ministry on Sunday. Of the total cases in the country, there[Read More…]
Cairo, April 12 (IANS) Egyptian Public Prosecutor Hamada al-Sawy has ordered an investigation after citizens attempted to prevent the burial of a doctor who died from COVID-19, state-run TV reported. The police fired tear gas and arrested 20 people in Dakahlia province who protested against the burial process out of[Read More…]
Mexico City, April 12 (IANS) Mexican authorities have found the decapitated body of a journalist, who was reported missing since April 2, in the coastal city of Acapulco, the prosecutor’s office said. The Guerrero State Attorney General’s Office in a statement on Saturday said forensic and genetic examinations confirmed the[Read More…]
Dhaka, April 12 (IANS) Bangladesh pacer Mohammad Sharif has retired from all forms of cricket. Sharif played 10 Tests and nine ODIs for Bangladesh in a brief international career between 2001 and 2007. He has a total of 24 international wickets (14 in Tests, 10 in ODIs). He, however, boasts[Read More…]
Rampur (Uttar Pradesh), April 12 (IANS) The Rampur district administration, on Saturday, acquired the medical science faculty building of the Mohammad Ali Jauhar University here to turn it into a quarantine facility to treat corona patients. District Magistrate Aunjaneya Kumar Singh said, “Acting as per the Disaster Management Act, we[Read More…]
By Sugandha Rawal New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Rapper Badshah was caught off guard with the plagiarism accusations against him over his new single “Genda phool”, with regard to Ratan Kahars Bengali folk song “Boroloker biti lo”. The rapper wants to set things right by doing a song with the[Read More…]
Dhaka, April 12 (IANS) An former army officer was hanged in Bangladesh on Sunday for his involvement in the killing of the countrys founding father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, nearly 45 years after the latter’s assassination in a military coup. Deputy Inspector General of Prisons Mohammad Towhidul Islam told Efe news[Read More…]
Lucknow, April 12 (IANS) The Lucknow University (LU) will now help the police personnel who are over-stressed, working on lockdown conditions. An agreement between the university administration and police department was signed over the weekend in this regard. University officials said that professors of the psychology department will be in[Read More…]
London, April 12 (IANS) Not getting enough sleep? Read this carefully. Researchers have found that an inadequate amount of sleep for five consecutive nights can negatively affect emotional processing, causing behavioural and neurofunctional changes. For the findings, published in the Journal of Sleep Research, the research team evaluated the effects[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Air pollution in the national capital region increased a notch and stood in “moderate” category on Sunday. According to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR), tiny particles in the air known as PM 2.5 are docked at 56, while PM[Read More…]
BY SAEED NAQVI Mut sahel hamein jaano Phirta a falak barson Tub khaak ke parde se Insaan nikalte hain. (Don’t take me easy; For years this cosmos turns on its axis; Only then does a human being appear From behind the curtain spread across this earthly creation) In the classic[Read More…]
Colombo, April 12 (IANS) The Lotus Tower in Colombo was lit in red to honour the medical workers, armed forces, police and all other officials who are on the front-line in Sri Lanka’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The red lights were switched on at 6.45 p.m. on Saturday, illuminating[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Former World no.1 badminton player Kidambi Srikanth has said that he was not happy with the unexpected break from the sport activities due to the lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Srikanth last played at the All England Championships in March, where he lost to China’s[Read More…]
Moscow, April 12 (IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin remains in “excellent” health amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. This can be proven by the President’s tight schedule and heavy workload, Xinhua news agency quoted Peskov saying in a TV program on Saturday, adding that Putin was working[Read More…]
By Vinod Mirani Struggle was not a very inspiring word for those who landed in Mumbai in thousands, year after year to try their luck in films. If you asked an aspirant what he was doing, the answer would be “trying in films”. Nobody said, “I am a struggler”. Here[Read More…]
Meerut, April 12 (IANS) Four persons, including the Imam of a mosque, have been arrested in Meerut for attacking a team of officials who had gone there to seal a mosque in Jali Kothi area, after Corona positive persons were found there. Circle Officer Dinesh Shukla said the accused pelted[Read More…]
Lucknow, April 12 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh has recorded its fifth Coronavirus death even as 19 fresh cases took the statewide tally of infected patients to 452 since the pandemic began. According to the data released by the health department here, the patient who died, was a Bulandshahr-based Ayurveda practitioner who[Read More…]
United Nations, April 12 (IANS) UN Middle East envoys have launched a joint appeal for the cessation of hostilities and for dialogue across the region amid the COVID-19 crisis. The joint appeal was launched on Saturday by Geir Pedersen, the UN special envoy for Syria; Jan Kubis, the UN special[Read More…]
