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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 […]

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 […]

France announces G7 coronavirus meeting

11:26 pm March 13, 2020

Paris: The G7 will hold an extraordinary meeting via video conference next week to bolster the international response to the coronavirus outbreak, the French presidency said Friday, also proposing enhanced EU border control. The meeting of the Group of Seven nations will seek to coordinate action against the virus in the spheres of health, economy, […]

Two men arrested for smuggling gold worth Rs 26 lakh at Delhi airport

Coronavirus: Passengers from US, France, Spain to be segregated at airports

10:25 pm March 9, 2020

New Delhi: Passengers from 15 countries, including the US, France and Spain, will also be segregated from other passengers till the conveyor belt areas at airports, according to the AAI. Passengers from arriving from China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, Iran, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Hongkong, Vietnam, Nepal and Indonesia are already being segregated from other arriving […]

Gold jumps Rs 773 on safe-haven appeal

6:54 pm March 6, 2020

New Delhi: Gold on Friday jumped Rs 773 to Rs 45,343 per 10 gram in the national capital as mounting worries over the economic fallout from the fast-spreading coronavirus drove investors towards the safe-haven metal. In the previous trade, the precious metal had closed at Rs 44,570 per 10 gram, according to HDFC Securities. Silver […]