People In Wuhan Fear Covid-19 Testing Could Rekindle Disease
As Wuhan, the Chinese city where the COVID-19 pandemic began, revs up a massive testing campaign, some residents crowding the...
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23 Migrants On Way Home Die In UP Road Accident
A truck crammed with migrant labourers trying to reach their distant homes amid a nationwide lockdown crashed in northern India...
India’s Coronavirus Infections Surpass China
India’s total novel corornavirus cases rose to 85,940 on Saturday, taking it past China, where the pandemic originated last year,...
Delayed Survey Data Blurs India’s Covid-19 Picture
India has lost two weeks in its bid to get a picture of the spread of the coronavirus in its...
Clogged Cooling System Likely Cause Of Gas Leak In AP: Investigators
A clogged cooling system was the likely cause of a temperature surge in a storage tank which led to a...
Global Coronavirus Death Toll Exceeds 300,000
Global coronavirus deaths passed 300,000 on Thursday as infections approached 4.5 million, according to a Reuters tally, with the United...
Free Foodgrains For Millions Of Migrant Workers
India will provide free foodgrains to millions of migrant workers hardest hit by a weeks-long lockdown as well as offer...
Farmers Gather Record Wheat Crop, But Can’t Move It
Late last month, Sukrampal had to beg and borrow farmhands from nearby villages to gather his part of the country’s...
ILO Warns Indian States On Scrapping Workers’ Rights
The U.N. labour agency urged Indian states thinking of relaxing workers’ rights to help industry survive the coronavirus to consult...
India Follows China’s Lead To Widen Use Of Covid-19 Tracing App
India is aggressively pushing a state-backed contact tracing app to fight the spread of COVID-19, raising fears that the world’s...
India Launches Contact-Tracing App For JioPhones
India’s technology ministry said on Thursday it had rolled out a version of its Bluetooth contact-tracking app for 5 million...
COVID-19 Pandemic: UN Warns Of Global Mental Health Crisis
A mental illness crisis is looming as millions of people worldwide are surrounded by death and disease and forced into...
Major Credit Line For Small Businesses, Lenders Unveiled
The government said on Wednesday it will offer nearly $60 billion of loan guarantees for small businesses, shadow banks and...
Some New Yorkers Find Solace In Empty City Streets
Harold Quintana sat nearly alone on a recent spring morning in New York City’s Bryant Park, jotting down notes at...
India Condemns “Barbaric Terrorist Attacks” In Afghanistan
India on Tuesday strongly condemned separate terror attacks targeting a maternity hospital, a funeral and a military check post in...
LG Chem Sends Delegation To Probe Deadly Gas Leak
South Korea’s LG Chem said on Wednesday that it had sent a delegation to India to investigate the cause of...
Huge Aid Package For Covid-19-Hit Indian Economy
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that India would provide 20 trillion rupees ($266 billion) in fiscal and monetary...
What You Need To Know About Covid-19 Right Now
Here’s what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: Trade deal in doubt? U.S. President Donald Trump said...
Trains To Restart Despite Rising Covid-19 Cases
Tens of thousands of people have booked out seats on trains that are due to restart on Tuesday after a...
Gunmen Attack ‘Doctors Without Borders’ Clinic In Kabul
Gunmen attacked a Doctors Without Borders medical clinic in the western part of the Afghan capital of Kabul, a Ministry...
India Looks To Ease Lockdown Even As Covid-19 Infections Jump
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday the country would look to ease a nearly seven-week lockdown aimed at preventing...
19 Sailors Killed As Iran Missile Strikes Its Own Ship
An Iranian missile fired during a training exercise in the Gulf of Oman struck a support vessel near its target,...
India To Restart Some Trains Even As Infections Spike
India announced a limited re-opening of its giant rail network beginning on Tuesday after a nearly seven-week lockdown, despite also...
Guidelines Issued For Post-Lockdown Factory Restarts
India has issued guidelines to ensure the safe restart of manufacturing facilities, after a weeks’ long nationwide lockdown aimed at...
Wuhan Reports 1st Covid-19 Cluster Since Lifting Of Lockdown
Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China, reported on Monday its first cluster of infections since a...
