Day: April 8, 2020

Journalist among six new COVID-19 patients in Bhopal

3:40 pm April 8, 2020

Bhopal: Six more people tested positive for coronavirus in Bhopal, taking the number of such cases in the Madhya Pradesh capital to 91, officials said on Wednesday. The six new patients include a journalist working with a news channel, a public relations department official said. He possibly contracted the infection from a police officer who […]

FIDE Online Chess Olympiad to start on July 25

Chess players raise fund for fight against COVID-19

3:39 pm April 8, 2020

Mumbai/Chennai: Chess players in the country, including the likes of Grandmaster P Harikrishna, are doing their bit in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic by raising more than Rs 3 lakh as their contribution. Some young chess players from across the country hosted an online tournament and raised Rs 1.05 lakh while noted coach R […]

Trump denies calling US war dead 'losers,' 'suckers'

Trump announces to put a hold on WHO funding

3:20 pm April 8, 2020

Washington: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would put a hold on America’s funding to the World Health Organization, accusing it of becoming China-centric during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. We’re going to put a hold on money spent to the WHO. We’re going to put a very powerful hold on it and we’re […]

UP lockdown: Firozabad admin to make violators write 'mask lagaana hai ' 500 times as fine

Germany caught up in mask fraud scheme

1:29 am April 8, 2020

Berlin: Authorities in Germany have fallen victim to a multi-million-euro fraud involving masks much needed in the coronavirus pandemic, prosecutors said on Tuesday. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state and one of the hardest hit, paid 14.7 million euros for some 10 million masks in March only to discover they did not exist, according to […]

'Disappointed' to find officials on leave when needed, Noida DM orders no holiday sans his nod

Noida: 200 from JJ cluster quarantined, DM says ‘cluster containment’ exercise

1:22 am April 8, 2020

Noida (UP): Around 200 people from a JJ cluster here were quarantined and put under observation as a precautionary measure on Tuesday, as surveillance teams went on contact tracing in areas which have previously reported positive coronavirus cases, officials said. This is the first “cluster containment” exercise in Gautam Buddh Nagar, which has so far […]