COVID-19

COVID-19: 44 Texas University students test positive after spring break trip

5:35 pm April 2, 2020

Houston: Forty four students of the University of Texas in the US have tested positive for COVID-19 after they returned from a spring break trip to Mexico, avoiding social-distancing guidelines amid the coronavirus pandemic. The university, which is in Austin, had previously confirmed only 28 coronavirus cases. About 70 students flew on a chartered plane […]

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

COVID-19 lockdown: Stranded Afghans in Akola sent to Delhi

5:16 pm April 2, 2020

Akola: Three Afghan nationals, who were stranded in Maharashtra’s Akola city due to the COVID-19 lockdown, were sent to Delhi, police said on Thursday. The three Afghan nationals had come to the city on business on March 9, but had no way of returning to their country after the nationwide lockdown was announced, an official […]

Coronavirus: US President Donald Trump contradictory views on China shift as crisis grows

Trump’s contradictory views on China shift as crisis grows

4:35 pm April 2, 2020

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has held an unequivocal position about China and the coronavirus — several of them. Trump initially praised China, then excoriated Beijing after it made unsubstantiated claims that the virus originated in the United States. Now, Trump is back to offering niceties. The diverging messages have generated finger-pointing by both Beijing and […]

Tablighi Jamaat: ED conducts multi-city raids

300 more from T’gana who participated in Nizamuddin event need to be tested: KCR

4:23 pm April 2, 2020

Hyderabad: As many as 300 people from Telangana who attended a religious congregation in the national capital recently, still need to be tested for Covid-19virus, the state government has said. “There is a need to conduct tests on 300 more who went to the Markaz (religious congregation). The government is urging those who went to […]

2 Tablighi event returnees test positive in Puducherry

11:47 pm April 1, 2020

Puducherry: Two people, who attended the Tablighi Jamat event in Delhi, tested positive for coronavirus here on Wednesday while seven others were under observation in the union territory, officials said. Chief Minister V Narayanasamy appealed to all those who took part in the religious meet from the union territory to volunteer themselves for screening. A […]