British PM Johnson Has Coronavirus, Self-Isolates
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the coronavirus and is self-isolating at his Downing Street residence but...
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Coronavirus Call Centres Set Up To Stop Stampede To Hospitals
Health authorities set up coronavirus call centres in urban centres across India on Friday, scrambling to stop people flooding hospitals...
‘Stigmatised’: Covid-19 ‘Heroes’ Come Under Attack
Doctors, nurses and other frontline workers in the fight against coronavirus in India, who have been hailed as "heroes", have...
Covid-19: RBI Cuts Rates As Distress Mounts Across South Asia
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) slashed interest rates in an emergency move on Friday to counter the economic fallout...
Bruised Economy To Be Battered Further By Covid-19: Poll
India’s already-slowing economy weakened to at least an eight-year low this quarter and will slow even more sharply in the...
Migrant Workers Face Long Walk Home Amid Covid-19 Lockdown
After India imposed a 21-day nationwide lockdown on Tuesday to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the plywood factory near Uttar...
$23-bn Eco Stimulus To Help Poor Hit By Lockdown
India announced on Thursday a 1.7-trillion-rupee ($22.6-billion) economic stimulus plan providing direct cash transfers and food security measures to give...
Coronavirus Cases Up Despite Immense Lockdown
Three more people infected with coronavirus died overnight in India as the government sought on Thursday to improve basic services...
Eat It: Hanoi Chef Spreads Joy With ‘Coronaburger’
You’ve got to eat it, to beat it: That’s the philosophy of one Hanoi chef who is attempting to boost...
“Solidarity With India, Lockdown Comprehensive, Robust”: UN
The UN has expressed solidarity with India in its fight against coronavirus, with a top official at the world body's...
India Struggles With Coronavirus Shutdown
India’s 1.3 billion people were under lockdown on Wednesday to prevent an explosion of coronavirus cases as the government struggled...
Gunmen Kill 25 In Raid On Afghanistan’s Sikh Complex
Unidentified gunmen and suicide bombers raided a Sikh religious complex in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Wednesday, killing 25...
Outsourcing Industry Struggles With Work-From-Home Scenario
As the coronavirus pandemic pushes India into a lockdown, the call centers and IT services firms that function as the...
Scramble For Supplies As 3-Week Covid-19 Lockdown Begins
Indians crowded grocery stores and chemists on Wednesday in a struggle for essential items after Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered...
India Faces Spike In Covid-19 Cases, Says Study
India could face between around 100,000 and 1.3 million confirmed cases of the disease caused by the new coronavirus by...
India In Lockdown As Covid-19 Appears In Small Towns
Police enforced lockdowns across large parts of India on Tuesday, with curfews in some places, as health officials warned that...
“India Led World In Eradicating 2 Pandemics, Should Show The Way”: WHO
The executive director of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Michael J Ryan, on Tuesday said that India has a tremendous...
Delhi Police Clear Out Shaheen Bagh Protest Site
Police in New Delhi broke up the longest-running protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s citizenship law on Tuesday, citing a...
Covid-19 Lockdown: India’s Poor Fear For Future
Shaikh Bahaduresha, 31, lived on Mumbai’s streets for two months last year, unable to make ends meet on his meagre...
Stocks Plummet Over 12% On Coronavirus Fears
Indian shares sank more than 12% by afternoon on Monday as trading resumed after the market’s second halt this month,...
Canada, Australia Withdraw From Tokyo Olympics
Canada and Australia said they would not be sending athletes to the Tokyo Olympics if the Games went ahead as...
Covid-19: PM Modi Tells Indians To Save Themselves
Streets were deserted in Delhi on Monday and office buildings shuttered as a lockdown to halt the spread of the...
People Cheer Emergency Workers During Covid-19 Lockdown
Indians came out onto their balconies and stood near open windows to clap, clang metal vessels and ring bells on...
Covid-19: Delhi, Scores Of Districts Under Lockdown
New Delhi will be under lockdown until March 31, the national capital’s government announced on Sunday, seeking to keep citizens...
Covid-19: South Asian Govts. Impose Curfews, Border Controls
Bangladesh tightened border controls while Sri Lanka arrested more than two dozen people for violating a nationwide curfew as part...
