Day: February 4, 2020

18-yr-old rape survivor gives birth to stillborn baby

9:07 pm February 4, 2020

Jammu: An 18-year-old woman gave birth to a stillborn baby at a hospital in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district here, with the police registering a case of rape against a man who had allegedly sexually exploited her on false promises of marriage. An investigation has been launched to track down the man, based on a […]

44-yr-old Coronavirus: NDA suspends large gatherings, expeditionsgaon resident tests positive of coronavirus

No nCoV positive case in Odisha so far, 2 hospitalised

9:05 pm February 4, 2020

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government Tuesday said it has identified 14 people who have returned to the state from China and Thailand following outbreak of the killer novel coronavirus (nCoV) but none have tested positive for it. While 13 people returned to the state from China, only one came from Thailand, said Odisha director of medical education […]

Chinese students fleeing virus face uneasy reception back home

World currently ‘not in a pandemic’ of China virus: WHO

9:02 pm February 4, 2020

Geneva: The World Health Organization said Tuesday that the outbreak of the deadly novel coronavirus, which has spread from China to two dozen countries, does not yet constitute a “pandemic”. “Currently we are not in a pandemic,” Sylvie Briand, head of WHO’s Global Infectious Hazard Preparedness division, told reporters in Geneva. Instead, she said, “we […]

China readies thousands of new hospital beds in virus outbreak epicentre

8:52 pm February 4, 2020

Beijing: Hundreds of empty beds lined an exhibition centre converted into a makeshift hospital at the epicentre of China’s deadly virus epidemic on Tuesday, awaiting coronavirus patients. Authorities are scrambling to provide facilities, beds and medical treatment for an influx of sick people in Wuhan in central Hubei province, the ground-zero of China’s fight against […]

Will Trump's mishandling of records leave a hole in history?

Trump faces accusers: What to watch during his big speech

8:45 pm February 4, 2020

Washington: Who’s clapping now? On the brink of his Senate acquittal, President Donald Trump will be unleashing “relentless optimism” during his third State of the Union address on Tuesday, a speech designed to pivot from his impeachment to his drive for reelection. Trump is speaking from a position of strength, with nearly complete control of […]