Day: April 21, 2020

ONGC to look at HPCL, MRPL merger post-June 2021

Oil Stocks tumble up to 7 pc

9:36 pm April 21, 2020

New Delhi: Stocks of companies related to oil and gas sector on Tuesday fell up to 7 per cent amid historic crude oil plunge. Shares of Gujarat State Petronet plummeted 7.09 per cent, ONGC tanked 6.48 per cent, GAIL 5.72 per cent, Indraprastha Gas 2.22 per cent and Petronet LNG 1.53 per cent on the BSE. Oil […]

4-year-old girl dies after being shot in Philadelphia home

9:30 pm April 21, 2020

Philadelphia: A 4-year-old girl who apparently was shot inside her family’s home in Philadelphia has died from her wounds, authorities said. It wasn’t clear who was holding the gun when the girl was shot at least once in the stomach late Monday night. She was driven to a hospital in a private vehicle and was […]

Iran closes businesses, curtails travel amid virus surge

Iran records 88 new virus deaths, has freed prisoners

9:23 pm April 21, 2020

Tehran: Iran on Tuesday announced 88 new deaths from the novel coronavirus as the country said it had released more than 1,000 foreign prisoners over the outbreak. According to health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour, the latest fatalities in the past 24 hours brought the total to 5,297, in one of the world’s deadliest outbreaks. The […]

5 dead of suspected gas leak in Italian nursing home

Moscow unveils Chinese-inspired coronavirus hospital

9:11 pm April 21, 2020

Moscow: An 800-bed hospital that was hastily built to treat coronavirus patients has opened outside Russia’s capital Moscow, city officials said on Tuesday. The clinic, 70 kilometres (40 miles) south of Moscow, was inspired by a coronavirus facility in the Chinese province of Wuhan, officials said, and was built in a month. “Unlike similar facilities […]

Coronavirus gores Pamplona bull-run

9:01 pm April 21, 2020

Madrid: Spain’s best-known bull running festival in the northern town of Pamplona has been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, Pamplona city hall said Tuesday. Hundreds of thousands of people typically attend the centuries-old San Fermin celebration, which sees half-tonne fighting bulls chase hundreds of daredevils, many wearing traditional white shirts and scarves, though the […]