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29 Indians return from Dubai via Pakistan

11:35 pm March 18, 2020

Attari (Amritsar): At least 29 Indians, who had gone to Dubai to watch a cricket match which was called off later, on Wednesday night returned to India through the land transit route of Attari-Wagah border here. Flydubai temporarily suspends services to India Earlier, when they entered India after being cleared by the Pakistan Immigration Authority, […]

NKorea’s Kim admits troubled medical system amid virus fears

6:37 pm March 18, 2020

Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un acknowledged that his country lacks modern medical facilities and called for urgent improvements, state media said Wednesday, in a rare assessment of the North’s health care system that comes amid worries about the coronavirus in the impoverished country. UK defends virus plan as ‘wartime’ measures loom Outside experts […]

133 Bhutanese students stranded in Punjab sent back

Covid-19: Indo-Bhutan border with Assam’s Kokrajhar on alert

12:00 am March 18, 2020

Kokrajhar: The Indo-Bhutan border with Assam’s Kokrajhar district is on high alert to prevent the entry of any “third country national” in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, officials said on Tuesday. Kokrajhar Deputy Commissioner Partha P Mazumdar said the lone entry point at Saralpara in the district, guarded by the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), […]

44-yr-old Coronavirus: NDA suspends large gatherings, expeditionsgaon resident tests positive of coronavirus

In times of coronavirus, tuning in to tune out anxiety

8:19 pm March 17, 2020

New Delhi: In another time, another place, Bertolt Brecht had memorably said, “In the dark times. Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.” The context of Brecht’s verse, written in exile in the late 1930s, was Nazi fascism, but the lines strike more than a chord in […]

Vishnu Saravanan becomes 2nd Indian sailor to qualify for Tokyo Olympics

Japan Olympic Committee deputy head has coronavirus: statement

6:26 pm March 17, 2020

Tokyo: Japan Olympic Committee’s deputy chief Kozo Tashima said Tuesday he had tested positive for the coronavirus, as doubts increase over whether Tokyo can safely host the Summer Games. “Today, my test result showed positive for the new coronavirus,” Tashima said in a statement, issued via the Japan Football Association, which he also heads. Tashima […]