State Authorities Warn Lockdown Could Be Extended
Authorities in some states warned on Saturday that lockdowns to rein in the coronavirus pandemic could be extended in parts...
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Curbs On Diagnostic Testing Kit Exports As Virus Spreads
India is restricting the export of most diagnostic testing kits, as coronavirus cases in the South Asian nation topped 3,350...
People Light Lamps To Challenge Covid-19 Darkness
Millions of Indians turned off their lights and lit up balconies and doorsteps with lamps, candles and flashlights on Sunday,...
Britain’s Labour Elects Keir Starmer As New Leader
Keir Starmer was elected as the leader of Britain’s main opposition Labour Party on Saturday, pledging to bring an end...
China Mourns Its Coronavirus Epidemic Deaths
China on Saturday mourned the thousands of “martyrs” who have died in the new coronavirus outbreak, flying the national flag...
COVID-19: Officials Warn Of Lockdown Extensions
The number of confirmed new coronavirus cases in South Asia neared 6,000 on Saturday, even as authorities in some cities...
Covid-19 Lockdown Hits Poor, Tests Modi’s Support
Ravi Prasad Gupta, a worker at a pipe plant in Gujarat, for years proudly supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi and...
Global Coronavirus Cases Surpass 1 Million
Global coronavirus cases surpassed 1 million on Thursday with more than 52,000 deaths as the pandemic further exploded in the...
The Religious Retreat That Sparked A Major Covid-19 Manhunt
It was late on Sunday night when officials in Andhra Pradesh received the alert. Federal authorities said they needed to...
Modi Plans Staggered Exit From Covid-19 Lockdown
India will pull out of a three-week lockdown in phases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, as officials battle...
Pak Court Overturns Conviction in Daniel Pearl Killing
A Pakistani court has commuted the death sentence of the main person accused in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of...
Cattle Being Fed Strawberries As Lockdown Hits Transport
As hundreds of millions of Indians remain locked down to stem the spread of coronavirus, some of its cattle are...
Stranded Migrant Workers Struggle Under Lockdown
India’s 21-day lockdown to fight the coronavirus has left hundreds of migrant workers stranded in Mumbai, with no money, little...
Infection Spikes With Search On For 9,000 Exposed To Delhi Cluster
India reported its biggest single day increase in coronavirus cases as officials on Thursday raced to track down some 9,000...
Covid-19 Patient Tries To Commit Suicide: Doctor
A person from Nizamuddin's markaz infected with the coronavirus tried to commit suicide at a hospital in Delhi, a doctor...
“Some Of Us Will Die”: Homeless Stranded By Covid-19 Lockdown
In a densely-packed neighbourhood of Delhi, hundreds of homeless people queued up this week as volunteers doled out rice and...
Racing To Stop Covid-19, India Scours Mosques
As coronavirus cases rose across densely-populated South Asia, authorities scoured mosques in northern India on Wednesday trying to trace people...
Shortage Of Farm Labour Amid Covid-19 Lockdown
A severe shortage of labour, triggered by India’s 21-day lockdown to rein in a coronavirus pandemic, will hobble harvesting of...
China Bans Big Crowd Events To Curb 2nd Wave Of Infections
Sports bodies in China have been banned from organising events that will draw large crowds until further notice due to...
Sensex, Nifty Fall As Covid-19 Cases Rise Amid Lockdown
Indian shares fell on Wednesday as the number of coronavirus cases increased in Asia’s third-largest economy even as a 21-day...
Covid-19 Epidemic ‘Far From Over’ In Asia: WHO Official
The coronavirus epidemic is “far from over” in the Asia-Pacific region, and current measures to curb the spread of the...
Crackdown On Muslim Group Linked To Covid-19 Cases
Authorities sealed off the headquarters of a Muslim missionary group on Tuesday and ordered an investigation into accusations that it...
Doctors Fight Covid-19 With Raincoats, Helmets
Shortages of protective health gear in India are forcing some doctors to use raincoats and motorbike helmets while fighting the...
Internet Curbs In Kashmir Hamper Covid-19 Fight
The Health Ministry on Monday invited doctors in Kashmir to an online training session on managing ventilators - critical equipment...
Outrage As Migrants Sprayed With Disinfectant
Health workers caused outrage on Monday by spraying a group of migrants with disinfectant, amid fears that a large-scale movement...
