“On Cossipore Road, autos are being allowed to ply in the direction opposite to that of other vehicles. That is another reason for the slowdown.” With the Lockgate flyover left open to all Bagbazar-bound vehicles from BT Road, the traffic load on several roads including Dum Dum Road, Northern Avenue and RG Kar Road remained…

Last week, a 51-year-old woman fell from a speeding motorbike and died on the spot after it hit a speed breaker. This is not a stray case. Many two-wheeler injuries and deaths in Bengaluru are caused by badly built road humps. Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Ravikanthe Gowda says the police have made a list…

Kochi: It surely seems like the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) is one of the worst affected in the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak in the state. The Corporation has registered drastic dip in the number of passengers and revenue. The daily ticket revenue decreased by Rs.44 lakhs on Tuesday and the number of passengers was the…

India recorded its first case of coronavirus caused death in Karnataka on Thursday after the state health department confirmed that the 76-year-old man from Kalaburagi who passed away on Tuesday tested positive or the disease that has infected 74 people in the country so far. ’76-yr-old man from Kalaburagi who passed away & was a…

The coronovirus-induced lockdown in China is likely to hit the production of BS-VI vehicles as a significant chunk of components are imported from that country. “Indian auto industry had already maintained an inventory in the beginning of the year in anticipation of the Chinese New Year holiday but with the current lockdown in China, supply…

The coronavirus scare has hit poultry business so hard and the Poultry Farm Association recently organized a Chicken Mela in Gorakhpur to dispel the misconception that birds are carriers of the deadly virus. With the sales of chicken and mutton going down due to the coronavirus scare, it is the humble ‘kathal’ (jackfruit) that is…

New Delhi: Famous British economist Jim O’Neill, who is also the chair of influential UK based think tank Chatham House, Wednesday praised China for its ‘fast and aggressive’ response to contain the coronavirus outbreak and suggested that India would have been unable to handle it. Participating in a discussion on a television show, O’Neill praised the…

COIMBATORE: These are desperate times for hoteliers in the city. With coronavirus and bird flu scare doing the rounds, the hotel industry is resorting to desperate measures to tide over the crisis. The 800-odd hotels in the city had been doing a business of Rs 4-5 crore a day till the virus came calling. Some hotels…

An elderly Italian couple, who were together for 60 years, tragically passed away alone within just two hours of each other, after they were infected with the coronavirus.  Severa Belotti, 82, and Luigi Carrara, 86, were together for 60 years but spent their last days on lockdown in their home of Albino, in the northern…

NEW DELHI: Amid the coronavirus scare, an old tweet from 2013 re-emerged and became viral on Twitter and left netizens shocked. The resurfaced tweet was written by a Twitter account named Marco with the username @Marco_Acortes predicting the novel coronavirus outbreak seven years ago. The user tweeted “Coronavirus….its coming” on June 3, 2013. As the…

As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread fear in several countries, people are rushing to convenience stores to stock up on medicines, toilet rolls, and hand sanitisers. The death toll from the novel coronavirus has reached 4,638 and the total number of confirmed cases stands at a staggering 1,26,259, according to Johns Hopkins university data….

Havana: ‘Where to find it?’ and ‘Whatever you want’ and ‘What do you need?’ These are the names of some of the social media groups catering to thousands of Cubans who are using newly available mobile internet to grapple with shortages of basic goods that are worsening under tougher U.S. sanctions. Armed with internet access…

European Union leaders on Thursday rebuked the United States for imposing a unilateral travel ban on arrivals from countries in the Schengen passport-free zone without consulting them. “The coronavirus is a global crisis, not limited to any continent, and it requires cooperation rather than unilateral action,” EU chiefs Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel…

Special arrangements have been made at Manesar’s ITC Grand for Madhya Pradesh’s 106 BJP MLAs who are accommodated at the Studio Apartment Villa area adjoining the five-star hotel. The areas around the main entrance of the hotel and the villa are being guarded by Haryana police’s CID wing, scores of policemen and a host of…

Days after the collapse of Yes Bank, at least three of its peers, including Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB), on Wednesday asserted about their strong capital position and allayed depositors’ fears. The response was supposedly necessitated by “rumours” floating around on social media platforms about the health of these banks. Yes Bank had to be put…