Papa Doesn’t Stay Home – Vasant Kunj Man Files FIR Against Father Amid Lockdown New Delhi: A 30-year-old man staying at Delhi’s Vasant Kunj stepped out of his home on Friday to lodge an FIR with the nearby police station. The FIR is against his father who finds it impossible to stay inside the home,…

Edgbaston pads up for a grim battle Edgbaston cricket ground in Birmingham, where the majority of a very noisy crowd tends to be Indian when India are playing England and especially Pakistan, will be used for a very different purpose in the next few days. Warwickshire County Cricket Club has offered its main on-site car…

SC seeks centre’s response on plea to compensate those hit by lockdown NEW DELHI, Apr 3: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Centre and fixed the hearing on the next working day on Tuesday on a petition filed by civil rights activists Harsh Mander and Anjali Bharadwaj for payment of wages to…

No vision of future, Tharoor lambasts PM’s speech Thiruvananthapuram: Senior Congress leader and MP from here Shashi Tharoor has slammed the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s message on Friday morning in which he urged the people to light lamp on Sunday at 9 p.m. Tharoor said there is no vision of future in PM Modi’s speech. “Listened…

PM’s call to fight Corona darkness with 9 minutes of darkness on Sunday NEW DELHI, Apr 3: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday gave a call for switching off all lights in homes on Sunday at 9 pm and light candles, diyas (old lamps), torches or mobile flashlight for nine minutes to collectively challenge the…

Modi could impose lockdown, Trump doesn’t have that power – Fareed Zakaria on why US failed to control Covid-19 The United States has come under heavy criticism for its failure to tackle the coronavirus outbreak effectively. The US has reported more than 240,000 Covid-19 cases, the highest in the world, and over 6,000 people have…

Video of doctors dancing in US hospital goes viral. Hugh Jackman says thank you to the superheroes All the health officials including doctors and nurses are the real superheroes and there is no denying that. They are the ones fighting the novel coronavirus on the frontlines and putting their lives in danger. But amid all…

Coronavirus – How govt’s new app ArogyaSetu works New Delhi, Apr 03: The new ArogyaSetu application launched by the government will help assess and also alert people about the coronavirus patients. The application would alert authorities if people have come in close contact with an infected person. How it works: The app will detect only fresh…

Delhi Government launches COVID-19 helpline on WhatsApp to provide credible information to citizens Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal led Delhi Govt on Thursday launched a dedicated WhatsApp helpline number for the citizens to have access to credible information around COVID 19. This initiative by the Health & Family Welfare Department of Govt. of NCT of Delhi…

More Than 900 Coronavirus Deaths Reported in Spain for Second Consecutive Day, Toll Closes in on 11,000 More than 900 people died in Spain over the past 24 hours for the second day running, government figures showed on Friday, although the rate of new infections and deaths continued to slow. Spain has the world’s second-highest…

Coronavirus Outbreak – New Yorkers Asked To Cover Face When Stepping Out As Cases Surge New Yorkers have been asked to cover their face when venturing out and are near other people to prevent the spread of the virus as officials warned that some asymptomatic, pre-symptomatic people appear to actually be transmitting this disease which…

Live: Global coronavirus death toll now 50K The number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world has soared past one million and deaths have topped 50,000 as the United States reported the highest daily death toll of any country so far. Despite more than half the planet living in some form of lockdown, the virus…

2 million-year-old ancient fossil Homo erectus unearthed Melbourne: Researchers have unearthed the earliest known skull of Homo erectus, the first of human ancestors in behaviour and anatomy, a finding that adds more than a hundred thousand years to the first appearance dates of the species. Following years of excavation at the fossil-rich site of Drimolen in…

WHO says coronavirus is spread by respiratory droplets, not through air Beijing: The virus that causes the COVID-19 disease is primarily transmitted through “respiratory droplets and close contacts”, and does not seem to stay long in the air, a recent WHO publication said. Respiratory infections can be transmitted through droplets of different sizes, the World Health…

More than 900 COVID-19 deaths in Spain for second consecutive day Spain has the world’s second-highest death toll after Italy with the COVID-19 virus so far claiming 10,935 lives — 932 in the past day — from 117,710 confirmed cases. Madrid: More than 900 people died in Spain over the past 24 hours for the second…