The World Bank on Sunday said the coronavirus outbreak has severely disrupted the Indian economy, magnifying pre-existing risks to its outlook.
The US death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed Italy's for the highest in the world Saturday at about 20,000, as Chicago and other cities across the Midwest braced for a potential surge in victims and moved to snuff out smoldering hot spots of contagion before they erupt.
Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Power struggle in ruling Cong has 'created massive confusion' in Karnataka: BJP leader Ashoka
Delhi snap losing streak with seven-wicket win against Rajasthan
Karnataka launches state-led Centre of Excellence for Space Technology in Bengaluru
Repolling in 15 polling stations in Bengal on Saturday: EC
Petrol, diesel price rise in near future not ruled out, say govt sources
Teen killed after being hit by private bus in Bengaluru
Bridge portion collapses on Jammu outskirts; 3-4 labourers feared trapped, 1 rescued
Stalin urges Centre to rollback commercial LPG price hike
Delhi Police reunites 194 missing persons with their families
Unruly scenes witnessed in Punjab Assembly
Bhatkal Muslim Jamaat Bangalore to organize two-day Blood donation camp in Bengaluru
Bangladesh has executed a former military captain for his involvement in the 1975 coup in which the country's founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated, nearly four-and-a-half decades after the massacre.
London: The UK's Opposition Labour Party on Saturday joined calls alongside Indian-origin doctors for a probe into the disproportionate number of black and minority ethnic (BAME) medics dying from the novel coronavirus in the country.
A hasty lifting of restrictions imposed to control the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to a fatal resurgence of the new coronavirus, the World Health Organisation warned on Friday.
Facebook has filed a lawsuit against an Indian man for running a software company that pushed deceptive advertisements and misinformation about coronavirus outbreak on social media platforms by bypassing its advertising review process.
The coronavirus pandemic has claimed over 16,000 lives and infected over 460,000 people in the US, devastating the country's economy and rendering a record 16 million workers jobless in just three weeks.
In a relief to liquor baron Vijay Mallya, the High Court in London has deferred hearings on a plea by the SBI-led consortium of Indian banks, seeking the indebted tycoon to be declared bankrupt to enable them recover a loan of around 1.145 billion pounds from him.
The worldwide death toll from the novel coronavirus passed 90,000 on Thursday, according to a tally compiled by AFP at 1630 GMT from official sources.
