Canberra, April 2 (IANS) Researchers from Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) on Thursday announced that they have begun testing vaccines for the novel coronavirus. The CSIRO said that it has commenced the first stage of testing at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) in Geelong, 75 km[Read More…]
Chandigarh, April 2 (IANS) A day after testing positive for coronavirus, Padma Shri and former Hazoori Raagi of the Golden Temple, Nirmal Singh Khalsa, died of cardiac arrest in a hospital in Amritsar city of Punjab in wee hours of Thursday. With this the death toll owing to Covid-19 rose[Read More…]
United Nations, April 2 (IANS) The global economy could shrink by 1 per cent in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, and might contract even further if restrictions on economic activities were extended without adequate fiscal responses, according to the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA). The UN-DESA[Read More…]
Lucknow, April 2 (IANS) The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) will now help the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in checking the spread of coronavirus. The two organizations and their volunteers will also help in providing help to the poor. RSS workers have already been distributing[Read More…]
San Francisco, April 2 (IANS) In a bid to simplify life for millions of people working from home, enterprise messaging platform Slack has launched a new app to integrate its rival Microsoft Teams video call features into its chat app. According to The Verge, Slack users will be able to[Read More…]
Rio de Janeiro, April 2 (IANS) Brazilian midfielder Willian has revealed that he is likely to leave Chelsea this summer after seven years with the Premier League club. Willian, whose contract with the Blues expires in June, said he is open to offers from other clubs after talks about a[Read More…]
Hyderabad, April 2 (IANS) The health and police employees in Telangana will not only be paid full salary for March but will also get cash incentive in recognition for their efforts to check the spread of coronavirus. The decision to pay full salary and incentive to employees of the medical[Read More…]
Islamabad, April 2 (IANS) Pakistan has welcomed the recent announcement by the Afghan leadership regarding the formation of a negotiation team for the much-awaited intra-Afghan dialogue with the Taliban as per the peace deal signed by the militant group with the US, a media report said on Thursday. In a[Read More…]
Paris, April 2 (IANS) UEFA has suspended all Champions League and Europa League matches “until further notice” due to the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, all national team matches scheduled in June will be postponed, including the play-off matches for Euro 2020. The governing body of European football met on Wednesday via[Read More…]
Washington, April 2 (IANS) The US Navy has evacuated thousands of sailors from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in an attempt to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus on the ship after over 90 crew members tested positive for the disease, Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly said. Briefing[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) From cinematic gems to unexplored marvels to decades-old Hollywood classics, the streaming world is full of classic Hollywood movies that are not only binge-worthy during the lockdown but also promise to leave behind a feel good nostalgia. A revisit could be worth it. IANS picks[Read More…]
By Arundhuti Banerjee Mumbai, April 2 (IANS) Actor Mukul Dev is receiving a lot of praise for his performance as a terrorist mastermind in the web series “State Of Siege: 26/11”. He is also the man who penned the story of the Rajkummar Rao-starrer “Omerta” that released in 2018. Mukul[Read More…]
Hyderabad, April 2 (IANS) Three more persons have died of COVID-19 and 30 new positive cases have been reported in Telangana taking the overall tally in the state to 127. With the death of three persons, the toll rose to nine. All of them had attended Tablighi Jamaat congregation in[Read More…]
Patna, April 2 (IANS) The number of people who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has increased to 24 in Bihar, officials said. Bihar Health Society Monitoring Officer, Ragini Mishra said on Wednesday that three more persons, one each from Begusarai, Nalanda and Gaya, were found to be[Read More…]
Islamabad, April 2 (IANS) The Pakistan government has decided to provide protective kits to journalists visiting quarantine centres and intensive care units (ICUs) to report on the coronavorus pandemic, a top official said here. Addressing a video-conference here on Wednesday, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting[Read More…]
Panaji, April 2 (IANS) From zero tweets in more than three years, to emerging as the lynchpin in the state government’s social media outreach in the COVID-19 fight back, the Goa Police’s official Twitter handle DGP_Goa is chirping its way up the popularity charts. Contrasted against a ramshackle and increasingly[Read More…]
Islamabad, April 2 (IANS) The Pakistan government has been considering restoring regular flight operations after April 4 and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has issued the Airline Operational Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the April 4-11 period, according to a spokesman Spokesman for the Aviation Division Abdul Sattar Khokhar, who[Read More…]
By Nikhila Natarajan New York, April 2 (IANS) Social distancing guidelines will likely stay in place in the US until there are “no new cases and no deaths”, the White House coronavirus task force has indicated while confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country climbed beyond 200,000 and deaths topped 4,700.[Read More…]
Washington, April 2 (IANS) The death toll from COVID-19 in the US jumped by 884 over the past 24 hours, setting a new one-day record for the country, according to Johns Hopkins University on Wednesday evening. So far, the total COVID-19 death toll the US reached 4,757, Xinhua reported. –IANS[Read More…]
Karachi, April 2 (IANS) The Sindh High Court (SHC) is set to announce its verdict on Thursday on the appeals filed by four convicts in the case of the slain American journalist Daniel Pearl, who was abducted and beheaded in Pakistan in 2002, a media report said. A two-judge SHC[Read More…]
Mumbai, April 2 (IANS) Actor Pankaj Tripathi has experimented with acting on different platforms. Now the quarantine time has brought out the writer in him. Due to the unexpected break from work owing to the coronavirus outbreak, the actor has now been at his home over the past one week.[Read More…]
Mumbai, April 2 (IANS) Actress Sandeepa Dhar went down the memory lane and revisited the 1960s era on social media. Sandeepa on Wednesday took to Instagram, where she shared a black-and-white video clip of herself with the song “Abhi na jao chhod kar” playing in the background. “Music is the[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) On screens big and small, actor Chetan Hansraj has often essayed dark roles and he loves it. “I love playing negative characters. According to me, negative characters are interesting and are not bound to any restrictions. It helps an actor to go all out in[Read More…]
Washington, April 2 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has said he welcomes China’s efforts to provide personal protective equipment to countries and regions combating COVID-19. Asked to comment on claims that China, by shipping aid overseas, “is taking on a global leadership role” in the battle against COVID-19, Trump said[Read More…]
Los Angeles, April 2 (IANS) Singer Rita Ora,29, does not like the idea of bringing age in everything. In an interview with NME.com, the “Poison” hitmaker spoke about how irrelevant is to get insecure of your increasing age, reports femalefirst.co.uk. “The problem is that insecurity gets put onto you through[Read More…]
