Day: April 11, 2020

Maharashtra: 92 new cases of COVID-19 take state tally to 1,666

7:00 pm April 11, 2020

Mumbai: As 92 more cases of COVID-19 have emerged in Maharashtra, the number of such patients in the state reached 1,666 on Saturday, the state health department said. Seventy-two of these new cases were detected in Mumbai, it said. Five others tested positive in Malegaon, four in Thane, two each in Panvel and Aurangabad, one […]

MP records 1,357 new coronavirus cases, ten deaths

US marks record over 2,100 coronavirus deaths in one day: Johns Hopkins data

3:51 pm April 11, 2020

Washington: The US has become the world’s first country to have registered more than 2,000 COVID-19 deaths in a single day with 2,108 fatalities reported in the past 24 hours, while the number of infections in America has crossed 500,000, the highest in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University data. China, where the deadly […]

Drowned out by pandemic, a muted victory for Joe Biden

3:40 pm April 11, 2020

Washington: Barack Obama celebrated the kickoff of his “historic” White House challenge before thousands of ecstatic supporters. Hillary Clinton also marked her “milestone,” as the first woman nominee of a major US party, to thunderous applause. And what of Joe Biden? The resurgent Democrat has been denied the climactic rollout that his predecessors enjoyed. Like […]

In Mexico, beach towns block themselves off because of virus

3:30 pm April 11, 2020

Mexico City: In Mexico, beach towns have begun blocking off roads in some cases, constructing barricades of rubble across roadways to seal themselves off from the outside world in a bid to stop the new coronavirus from entering. The Gulf of California beach town of Puerto Pe asco announced Friday that two of three highways […]

PM’s meeting with CMs: Demand transfer of cash to poor families, says Chidambaram

3:24 pm April 11, 2020

New Delhi: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s meeting with chief ministers, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday urged CMs of states where the party is in power to unanimously demand for transfer of cash to every poor family. He said the poor have lost their jobs and have exhausted their savings. They are […]