Bengaluru, April 2 (IANS) Eleven of 91 Tablighi Jamaat followers who returned to Karnataka from the Delhi headquarters of the group have tested positive so far for coronavirus, Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa said on Thursday. “Of the 91 Jamaat members who returned from Nizamuddin Markaz in March, 11 tested positive[Read More…]
Beijing, April 2 (IANS) The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) announced on Thursday that its world rankings remain the same as released in March due to current suspension of ITTF events caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The ITTF added that the rankings for April 2020 will be evaluated and released[Read More…]
San Francisco, April 2 (IANS) Amazon has turned on a new feature in Prime Videos apps for Apple devices that lets users buy or rent TV shows and movies, using the in-app payment feature. Earlier, customers using the Prime Video app from an iOS device or Apple TV would have[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) National Green Tribunal (NGT) Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel has contributed Rs 50,000 to Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM-CARES) Fund to aid the nation’s fight against COVID-19. The fund has been set up to provide emergency relief in the times[Read More…]
Mumbai, April 2 (IANS) With the coronavirus pandemic putting a spanner across all works of life, sports fans have their plates empty all of a sudden when otherwise, they would have had it full. The latest sporting event in the casualty list is the Wimbledon, which on Wednesday, was cancelled[Read More…]
Chennai, 2 April (IANS) Director Karthik Naren’s Tamil film “Mafia: Chapter 1”, which released earlier in February, has come under the scanner for using photos of five of the eight men who were murdered by Canadian serial killer Bruce McArthur. The film starring Arun Vijay, Prasanna and Priya Bhavani Shankar[Read More…]
Athens, April 2 (IANS) The Greek government on Thursday quarantined more than 2,000 people in a refugee camp after detecting 20 confirmed coronavirus among its residents. Migration Minister Panagiotis Mitarachi said entry or exit from the Ritsona camp site, about 75 km northeast of Athens, will be totally prohibited for[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi has emphasised that the country needs India specific strategy to combat Covid-19 which has been declared pandemic and number of cases are rising daily. Rahul Gandhi tweeted, “At the Congress CWC meeting today I emphasised the urgent need to devise[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Indian shooter Apurvi Chandela has pledged to make a contribution of Rs 5 lakh in fight towards coronavirus pandemic. Apurvi will be donating Rs 3 lakh towards Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund) and Rs 2 lakh to[Read More…]
Jammu, April 2 (IANS) After a local microbiologist engaged in the war against COVID-19 himself tested positive, three of his family members have also now been shifted to the Jammu medical college hospital for treatment. The plight of the family came to light when a video was posted on Facebook[Read More…]
Panaji, April 2 (IANS) Ayuron, a company in which former Chief Minister late Manohar Parrikar was once a director and is now manned by his kin, is in the process of promoting affordable and simple-to-use ventilator technology, in a bid to bridge the nationwide paucity of the life-saving equipment. Speaking[Read More…]
Bengaluru, April 2 (IANS) The gig economy neobank, Avail Finance has launched a specially designed COVID-19 support-package called ‘Avail Assist’ for gig-economy platforms in India. This offering will help gig-economy companies across e-commerce, food delivery, logistics, mobility and transportation, offer financial support to their on-ground workforce who are not eligible[Read More…]
London, April 2 (IANS) Testing was the solution to “unlock the puzzle” of the novel coronavirus, said the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was currently in self-isolation after contracting the disease which has infected 29,865 people and killed 2,357 others in the country. “I want to say a special[Read More…]
Mandi, April 2 (IANS) Researchers from Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (IIT-M) and Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in Kolkata have developed a new route by which curcumin, the medicinal chemical present in turmeric, can be incorporated into drug nanoformulations. Turmeric has been used as a food item[Read More…]
Beijing, April 2 (IANS) The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) president and staff have decided to take voluntary salary reduction in 2020 to help the sport during the COVID-19 pandemic. During Wednesday’s video conference where all ITTF staff were in attendance, ITTF CEO Steve Dainton underlined the need for all[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) As many as 569 coronavirus suspects related directly or indirectly to the Tablighi Jamaat have been quarantined in Uttar Pradesh, while in Andhra Pradesh 111 people who attended the religious congregation in Delhi’s Nizamuddin have been identified. According to UP government officials, the corona suspects[Read More…]
Mumbai, April 2 (IANS) Amid the lockdown due to the oubreak of coronavirus, actor Vicky Kaushal indulged in a chat with his fans on social media and shared that his first crush was Bollywood diva Madhuri Dixit-Nene. Vicky on Wednesday took to his Instagram stories to treat his fans with[Read More…]
Sydney, April 2 (IANS) Former Australia spinner Shane Warne has been picking his favourite teams over the last few days as the world has come to a standstill due to the coronavirus outbreak. And on Thursday, he picked the greatest West Indies XI and it came as no surprise that[Read More…]
By Rohan Agarwal New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) A flying object over a locality in Nizamuddin left the residents wondering what it was. Later they came to know that the South Delhi Municipal Corporation deployed a drone to spray a disinfectant over the locality, now said to be the epicentre[Read More…]
Mumbai, April 2 (IANS) Music artistes like Neha Kakkar, Salim Merchant and Armaan Malik have come together so that their fans can enjoy live music while seated on their sofas. It’s been days since the nationwide lockdown was announced. To make things entertaining, TikTok as part of its #GharBaithoIndia campaign,[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) A song to make people aware about new coronavirus by Pune-based classical khayal vocalist Sandeep Ranade has mesmerized celebrities – from Oscar winning musician AR Rahman to Padma Vibhushan awardee Pandit Jasraj – and social media users alike. Ranade, who worked with companies like Google,[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) It has been nine years since India won their second ICC World Cup title. Powered by Gautam Gambhir and M.S. Dhoni’s knocks, India chased down a target of 275 against Sri Lanka with six wickets and 10 balls in hand. Six players in that team[Read More…]
Mumbai, April 2 (IANS) Bollywood actor Kartik Aaryan celebrated together his sister Kritika Tiwari’s birthday after seven years. Kartik on Thursday took to Instagram, where he shared that he baked a “biscuit cake” for his sister amid COVID-19 lockdown. He shared a photograph of himself along with his sister posing[Read More…]
Mumbai, April 2 (IANS) Amidst the coronavirus lockdown, actress Sunny Leone on Thursday started her chat show on Instagram. The show, titled “Lockdown with Sunny”, will see Sunny in conversation with several celebrities, including Daboo Ratnani and Mandana Karimi. For the first episode, she invited YouTube sensation Anisha Dixit as[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Financial services conglomerate HDFC Group on Thursday committed Rs 150 crore to the PM CARES Fund to support the fight against coronavirus pandemic. Deepak Parekh, Chairman, HDFC Ltd, said: “These are uncertain and trying times for all of us. The HDFC Group’s support to the[Read More…]
