Day: October 5, 2020

WHO report on Wuhan virus mission expected soon

WHO: 1 in 10 people may have contracted COVID-19

8:09 pm October 5, 2020

Geneva: The head of emergencies at the World Health Organisation says its “best estimates” indicate that roughly one in 10 people worldwide may have been infected by the coronavirus. Dr Michael Ryan, speaking Monday to a meeting of the WHO’s 34-member executive board focusing on COVID-19, said the figures vary from urban to rural, and […]

3 win Nobel medicine prize for discovering hepatitis C virus

8:03 pm October 5, 2020

Washington: Americans Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice and British-born scientist Michael Houghton won the Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus, a major source of liver disease that affects millions worldwide. Announcing the prize in Stockholm, the Nobel Committee noted that the trio’s work identified a […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

UK says tech glitch missed 15,841 COVID-19 cases

7:55 pm October 5, 2020

London: A technical glitch has resulted in 15,841 positive cases of coronavirus not being counted in the official daily of COVID-19 log in the past week, England’s health authority has admitted. Public Health England (PHE) said the issue had been identified overnight on Friday, and a rapid investigation calculated the list of cases that had […]

Builder shot dead in Pune

7:43 pm October 5, 2020

Pune: A 64-year-old builder was killed here in Maharashtra on Monday by an unidentified person who shot him outside a bank, police said, adding that two people have been detained in connection with the attack. The builder, identified as Rajesh Kanabar, succumbed to his injuries in hospital in afternoon, a Bundgarden police station officer said. […]

Top DRDO prize for Noida varsity scientist's concept to recognize person's identity in dark

Man held for cheating friends by offering jobs in DRDO

7:39 pm October 5, 2020

Hyderabad: A 23-year-old man, who allegedly cheated youths on the pretext of offering them jobs in the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)and collected money from them, was on Monday arrested here, police said. In one of the cases, he also allegedly cheated his close friend of Rs 3.61 lakh by promising him a supervisor […]