Indonesia

Indonesia’s most volatile volcano spews ash in new eruption

1:14 pm June 21, 2020

Yogyakarta: Indonesia’s most volatile volcano on Sunday spewed ash and hot gas in a massive column as high as 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) into the sky. Mount Merapi’s clouds of ash, accompanied by a rumbling sound heard kilometers (miles) away, blanketed several villages on the main island of Java. Indonesia’s Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation […]

WHO report on Wuhan virus mission expected soon

India supports move at WHO to seek origin of coronavirus

2:24 pm May 18, 2020

New Delhi: India is expected to join over 60 countries at a two-day crucial conference of the World Health Organisation in Geneva in pushing for an “impartial, independent and comprehensive” evaluation of the global response mechanism to the COVID-19 crisis as well as to find out the “zoonotic source” of the deadly infection. The two-day […]

UN chief warns against criminal exploitation of COVID-19 recovery resources

Russia tries again to win UN approval for virus resolution

2:51 pm April 18, 2020

United Nation: Russia is trying again to win U.N. General Assembly approval for a resolution on the coronavirus pandemic, dropping a call to end unilateral sanctions without UN Security Council approval but still calling for an end to protectionist practices. The 193-member world body has until noon EDT on Wednesday to consider the revised Russian […]

COVID-19 cases rise to 141 in Haryana

4:58 pm April 8, 2020

Chandigarh: With 11 more people testing positive for coronavirus, the number of COVID-19 cases in Haryana rose to 141 on Wednesday. Among the fresh cases, seven were reported from Faridabad, one from Nuh and two from Palwal while Fatehabad district reported its first case, according to state health Department’s bulletin. At present, there are 122 […]

Tablighi Jamaat: ED conducts multi-city raids

300 people from Karnataka attended Nizamuddin jamaat: Minister

3:25 pm April 1, 2020

Bengaluru: Karnataka Health Minister B Sriramulu on Wednesday said about 300 people from the state had attended the religious congregation of Tablighi Jamaat at Nizamuddin Markaz Masjid in New Delhi last month, and 40 of them have been identified and quarantined. In a tweet, the Minister also said COVID-19 test reports of 12 of them […]