Day: April 1, 2020

Efforts on to evacuate 2,000 foreign tourists from Goa

3:30 pm April 1, 2020

Panaji: Amid the lockdown due to coronavirus, nearly 2,000 foreign tourists are stranded in Goa and efforts are underway to send them to their respective countries, a tourism body said on Wednesday. Majority of the visitors held back in the coastal state are Britishers as tourists from various other countries have already flown out, Travel […]

Tablighi Jamaat: ED conducts multi-city raids

300 people from Karnataka attended Nizamuddin jamaat: Minister

3:25 pm April 1, 2020

Bengaluru: Karnataka Health Minister B Sriramulu on Wednesday said about 300 people from the state had attended the religious congregation of Tablighi Jamaat at Nizamuddin Markaz Masjid in New Delhi last month, and 40 of them have been identified and quarantined. In a tweet, the Minister also said COVID-19 test reports of 12 of them […]

CNN’s Cuomo, with coronavirus, completes show from basement

3:19 pm April 1, 2020

New York: A bleary-eyed Chris Cuomo, saying he wanted to be a cautionary tale for his audience, anchored his CNN show from his basement Tuesday after testing positive for the coronavirus. Via remote link, he interviewed Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, an emergency room nurse and CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, who expressed worry about one […]

First death of coronavirus infected patient in UP

3:19 pm April 1, 2020

Gorakhpur: Uttar Pradesh reported its first coronavirus-related death on Wednesday after test reports of a 25-year-old man, who died two days ago, came COVID-19 positive. The man was admitted to the BRD Medical College here on Sunday and he was suffering from kidney and liver problems, the institute’s principal Ganesh Kumar said. “The sample of […]

Pompeo and Jaishankar discuss coordinated approach to COVID-19

3:12 pm April 1, 2020

Washington: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke over phone to discuss a coordinated effort by India and the US to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic that has so far infected more than 850,000 people and claimed over 42,000 lives globally. Jaishankar spoke to Pompeo over phone on Tuesday. This […]