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COVID-19: India is not in community transmission stage, says ICMR

COVID-19: India now seventh worst-hit country in world

12:00 am June 1, 2020

New Delhi: India has now become the world’s seventh worst-hit country in terms of coronavirus cases with its tally of 1,82,143, according to the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 tracker. According to the WHO tracker, a total of 59,34,936 cases have been recorded globally with 3,67,166 deaths as of 10:30 PM Sunday. India registered its highest […]

India’s coronavirus death toll overtakes that of China

7:28 pm May 29, 2020

New Delhi: India’s coronavirus death toll has surpassed that of China after it reported a total of 4,706 fatalities, while it overtook Turkey to become the ninth worst-hit nation by the pandemic with 1,65,799 COVID-19 cases. The country has registered 175 deaths and a record 7,466 fresh coronavirus infection cases in the last 24 hrs […]

US jobless claims rise to 778,000 as pandemic worsens

Nearly 39 million have lost jobs in US since coronavirus took hold

12:02 pm May 22, 2020

Washington: The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits in the two months since the coronavirus took hold in the U.S. has swelled to nearly 39 million, the government reported Thursday, even as states from coast to coast gradually reopen their economies and let people go back to work. More than 2.4 million people filed […]

Bomb threat by woman caller to airport in TN a hoax, say officials

Flight carrying 181 Indians from Dubai lands in Kochi

11:27 pm May 16, 2020

Kochi: An Air India Express flight carrying 181 stranded Indians from Dubai landed at the Cochin International Airport here on Saturday as part of the second phase of the Central government’s ambitious Vande Bharat Mission. This is the first evacuation of people of Kerala stranded in foreign soil in the second phase of Vande Bharat […]

India should put in large enough stimulus package to revive demand: Abhijit Banerjee

3:22 pm May 5, 2020

New Delhi: India should come out with a large enough stimulus package to revive demand, Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee said on Tuesday, asserting that putting cash in the hands of people would be the best way to boost the economy post lockdown. Banerjee, while talking to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi through video-conferencing, suggested giving money […]