The BSE benchmark Sensex nose-dived over 2,300 points, while Nifty tanked over 5% to below 10,400 on Monday amid global sell-off as the coronavirus spread rapidly around the world.  The 30-share Sensex plunged 2,326.35 or 6.19% at 35,250.27 while NSE Nifty crashed 646.95 or 5.89% at 10,342.50 in the afternoon trade. In the last two…

Coronavirus suspect, kept under observation, goes missing from Mangaluru hospital A person who arrived at the airport here from Dubai and was admitted to the isolation ward of a hospital with symptoms of coronavirus has gone missing, sources said. The patient, who arrived on Sunday, was shifted to the district Wenlock hospital with a high…

The first death in the country due to the suspected coronavirus was on Sunday reported from a hospital in Leh in the union territory of Ladakh. This could be the first death case of India ever since the outbreak of the virus. A total number of four positive virus patients have been detected in the…

Man infected with coronavirus in Japan goes to bars to ‘spread the virus’ A Japanese man in his 50s who tested positive for coronavirus intentionally visited two bars “to spread the disease”, before Hazmat-clad police took him to hospital. The patient, who showed no symptoms of the virus, tested positive for the disease on Wednesday…

The world is witnessing a rapid spread of a novel coronavirus that has infected 1,10,041 people and caused over 3,800 deaths, mostly in mainland China. In India, with three new cases confirmed on Monday in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala the number of coronavirus cases have risen up to 43. The new virus has been…

North Korea fired three short-range projectiles into the East Sea on Monday in what was believed to be part of a joint strike exercise, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. The projectiles were fired north-eastward from areas near its eastern town of Sondok in South Hamgyong province at 7.36 a.m, Yonhap News Agency…

Among all the calamities caused by climate change, an increase in the salinity of the soil is one. It is projected that, by 2050, about half of today’s arable land across the world will be affected by salinity. This increase would also hit India’s rice bowl, the Indo-Gangetic plains, which is projected to lose about…

BENGALURU: With IT/BT companies in the city asking their employees to work from home for the next 14 days or so, also people cutting down on travel in the light of the coronavirus outbreak, cab bookings have dropped significantly. Cab drivers say they have seen a drop in rides, especially to and from the tech…

Three people who returned from coronavirus-affected regions in the past nine day were on Sunday quarantined for suspected exposure in Indore in Madhya Pradesh, a senior health official said on Sunday. Indore District Chief Medical and Health Officer Dr Praveen Jadia said the three, including a 34-year-old woman, had returned from the United States and…

Days after he mocked the US as a ‘wolf whose tail was cut’ by Taliban jihadists in Afghanistan, ailing Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief and global terrorist Masood Azhar has been shifted by Pakistan’s deep state from his Bahawalpur headquarters to Rawalpindi for his personal safety, according to people with knowledge of the matter. While it is not clear…

President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday honoured 16 women with the ‘Nari Shakti Puraskar’ to recognise their exceptional work towards women empowerment, a release from the Rashtrapati Bhavan said. The award, instituted by the Union ministry of women and child development, ceremony is held on March 8 every year to mark the International Women’s Day…

Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that all branches of the armed forces would soon be opened for women officers as resistance to the idea was on the wane. ‘We believe that no branch of the armed forces should remain closed for women officers. I know that there is some degree of resistance against…

New Delhi: A couple with alleged links to the Islamic State’s Khorasan module was arrested from south Delhi’s Jamia Nagar on Sunday for allegedly instigating anti-CAA protests in the national capital, police said. They have been identified as Jahanjeb Sami (36) and his wife Hina Bashir Beg (39), said Pramod Singh Kushwah, Deputy Commissioner of Police…