Govt. Brushes Off Proposal For Covid-19 Tax On Super Rich
A group of Indian Revenue Service officers have recommended taxing the super rich, and foreign companies, to help pay for...
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“No Evidence” That Recovered COVID-19 Patients Cannot Be Reinfected: WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday that there was currently “no evidence” that people who have recovered from...
Migrant Workers Bear The Brunt Of The Lockdown
Most days, you can find Dayaram Kushwaha and his wife, Gyanvati, hauling bricks for stonemasons in a booming northern suburb...
Amid Lockdown, Curbs On Small Businesses Eased
The government allowed a limited reopening of shops in neighbourhoods and residential areas from Saturday, more than a month after...
At 51,000, US Records Over 1/4 Of Global Covid-19 Deaths
The United States accounts for more than one fourth of the global Covid-19 deaths and over one-third of the total...
Trump’s COVID-19 Disinfectant Ideas Horrify Health Experts
U.S. President Donald Trump’s musings on whether injecting disinfectants might treat COVID-19 horrified medical professionals on Friday and raised fresh...
Truckers In Crisis: Police Checks, No Food, Covid-19 Fears
Truck driver Arju Yadav says he was on a 30-40 km (20-25 mile) journey earlier this month to deliver a...
People Try To Flee Overcrowded Quarantine Centres
Thousands of people in overcrowded coronavirus quarantine centres in government buildings across India are complaining of poor food and sanitation...
Covid-19 Mortality Rates Drop Sharply In India
Parts of India have recorded dramatic falls in the number of deaths at a time when funeral parlours were bracing...
“Like Injecting Disinfectant”: Trump’s Covid-19 Cure Idea Goes Viral
An observation by a top US official that the coronavirus is quickly destroyed by sunlight led President Donald Trump to...
South Asia Coronavirus Cases Top 37,000
South Asia’s coronavirus infections have crossed 37,000, with more than half in India, official data showed on Thursday, complicating the...
No Salary Rises For Over 11mn To Combat Covid-19
India on Thursday froze inflation-linked increases in salaries and pensions for more than 11 million Central government employees and pensioners...
Facebook Bets On India With $5.7bn Reliance Deal
Facebook is set to spend $5.7 billion to buy a 9.99% stake in Reliance Industries’ digital arm, as it looks...
U.S. Was Attacked: Trump On Coronavirus Pandemic
Struggling to restore normalcy in the U.S. where COVID-19 has claimed the lives of more than 47,000 people and infected...
‘I Do Feel Afraid’: Workers Who Disinfect Covid-19 Hotspots
One recent morning in his two-room New Delhi home, sanitation worker Dev Dutt Sharma drank tea before putting on an...
Covid-19 Lockdown Deepens Holocaust Survivors’ Loneliness
On Tuesday, Elias Feinzilberg, a 102-year-old Holocaust survivor, had to commemorate Israel’s annual memorial day -- for the six million...
Supply Snags In Race For Affordable Ventilators
Indian medical device makers, racing to churn out ventilators as domestic COVID-19 cases spike, have been beset by supply bottlenecks,...
Coronavirus Antibody Tests Paused After Questions Over Reliability
India has ordered a pause in testing for antibodies to the coronavirus because of concern over accuracy, health officials said...
Coronavirus Cases In India Near 20,000
With 1,383 fresh coronavirus cases reported in the past 24 hours, the total number of cases in India has gone...
Asia Pivots Towards Plants As Covid-19 Stirs Meat Safety Fears
Demand for plant-based protein foods is surging in Asia, suppliers say, as suspicion over possible links between wild animal meat...
Rashtrapati Bhavan Isolates 500 Over Virus Scare
About 500 people entered self-isolation in staff quarters of the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Tuesday, as the coronavirus spreading through South...
WHO Warns Lifting Of Lockdowns Must Be Gradual
The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday that any lifting of lockdowns to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus...
Covid-19 To Impoverish Millions Of Children In Middle East
Millions of children in the Middle East will become poorer as their caregivers lose jobs from lockdowns aimed at stemming...
US Crude Oil Price Goes Negative For 1st Time In History
US oil prices crashed to unprecedented lows on Monday as futures in New York ended in negative territory for the...
Police Target Journalists In Kashmir For Alleged ‘Fake News’
Police in Indian-administered Kashmir are investigating two journalists for allegedly spreading “fake news,” authorities said on Monday, as a months-long...
