coronavirus

Lockdown: Man cycling from Maha to reach UP home dies in MP

7:41 pm May 1, 2020

Barwani (MP): A 50-year-old man died in Sendhwa in Madhya Pradesh after cycling over 390 kilometres to get home from Bhiwandi in Maharashtra to Maharajganj in Uttar Pradesh, those accompanying him said on Friday. Tabarat Mansoori had gone to Bhiwandi looking for work but could not find any due to the lockdown imposed for the […]

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Economic figures show grim toll in Europe and US from coronavirus

8:14 am May 1, 2020

New York: Bleak new figures Thursday underscored the worldwide economic pain inflicted by the coronavirus: The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits has climbed past a staggering 30 million, while Europe’s economies have gone into an epic slide. And as bad as the numbers are, some are already outdated because of the lag in […]

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Trump blames China for coronavirus pandemic; a lab ‘mistake’?

8:06 am May 1, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump on Thursday speculated that China could have unleashed the coronavirus on the world due to some kind of horrible “mistake,” and his intelligence agencies said they are still examining a notion put forward by the president and aides that the pandemic may have resulted from an accident at a Chinese lab. […]

Gorakhpur records another case of coronavirus

7:02 pm April 30, 2020

Gorakhpur (UP): A 34-year-old woman has tested positive for coronavirus in the district, a senior health official said on Thursday. This is the second case in the district after a 50 year-old-man was found positive for the virus, Chief Medical Officer Srikant Tiwari said. The woman had been attending to her ailing father in Delhi’s […]

Road accidents dip in Gujarat during lockdown

3:24 pm April 29, 2020

Ahmedabad: Road accidents in Gujarat came down by 71 per cent during the coronavirus-enforced lockdown as compared to normal days, according to an analysis by an emergency services agency. From about 398 daily cases of accidents in normal times, the number fell to 115 during the lockdown period, says the study conducted by GVK Emergency […]