Day: March 15, 2020

France to limit long-distance train, bus, plane travel over coronavirus

5:06 pm March 15, 2020

Paris: France will progressively reduce long-distance train, bus and plane travel on its territory over the coming days in a bid to limit the spread of the coronavirus, the ecology minister said Sunday. The country, which has already shut cafes, restaurants, schools and universities and urged people to limit their movements, will now seek to […]

Israel’s Netanyahu ‘determined’ to continue Gaza operation

Israel postpones Netanyahu graft trial over virus

4:59 pm March 15, 2020

Jerusalem: An Israeli court on Sunday postponed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s graft trial over coronavirus, as the premier relaunched his appeal for an emergency unity government to tackle the crisis. Netanyahu, the first Israeli prime minister ever indicted in office, had been scheduled to stand trial from Tuesday over alleged bribery, fraud and breach of […]

Coming home and staying there in COVID-19 times

Coronavirus cases in country climb to 107, cases rise in Maharashtra

4:40 pm March 15, 2020

New Delhi: The number of novel coronavirus cases in the country rose to 107 on Sunday, with 12 fresh cases in Maharashtra, the Union Health Ministry said. The number of cases include two persons who died in Delhi and Karnataka. While a 76-year-old man from Kalaburagi who had recently returned from Saudi Arabia died on […]

AIMIM should be banned, says new Telangana BJP chief

4:39 pm March 15, 2020

New Delhi: Newly-appointed Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar said on Sunday the AIMIM should be banned for its link to “violence and terrorists” and claimed Congress workers will join the saffron organisation in large numbers as their party was staring at “disintegration” in the state. Appointed as the state party chief last week, the […]

JK Apni Party delegation meets Amit Shah

4:31 pm March 15, 2020

New Delhi: Chief of newly-formed ‘JK Apni Party’ Altaf Bukhari met Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday during which the minister allayed fears of demographic changes in Jammu and Kashmir and also assured for early return of statehood. Emerging after a nearly two-hour long meeting with the home minister, Bukhari, a businessman-turned-politician who led […]