As China limps back to normalcy after COVID-19 outbreak, job prospects in the country seem to be truly bleak especially for the nine million students or so who are due to graduate in June.

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un sent a personal message to Chinese President Xi Jinping praising what he described as China's success in getting its coronavirus epidemic under control. The report by North Korea's state media followed an assessment by South Korea's spy agency that the pandemic is hurting the North's economy.

The deal will make Vista the largest shareholder of Jio after Facebook (9.99%) and parent RIL (86.54%). With this, RIL has raised a total of Rs 60,596 crore ($7.9 billion), boosting its efforts to pare debt.

Many have argued that while India’s lockdown has been the harshest, its stimulus package is one of the smallest — so far. To fund bigger public spending programme, the govt can either ask the RBI to print more money or raise money through borrowing. Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has explained how the two paths work and why ‘monetisation’ is a good option.

Reliance Jio has come up with new top-up plans to support extra data usage at up to 75 per cent lower rates and also made annual recharge plans 33 per cent cheaper compared to rivals by enhancing data usage limit at 4G speed to 2 GB per day.

Anecdotally, it is often said that engineers tend to lean rightwards in their politics. In their new book, Engineers of Jihad, sociologist Diego Gambetta and political scientist Steffen Hertog back up that gut sense with data. They find that Islamist radicalism and other far-right movements are dominated by engineers, doctors and those with tech backgrounds, while left-wing movements draw people from the humanities and social sciences. They tell TOI why this may be the case

Women-only comedy shows create a safe space for female comedians and audiences to laugh out loud. Like Leddis Night, a number of comedy shows by and for women are encouraging young female comics to get on stage and more women to go out and laugh freely.

Owing to lack of adequate security and other infrastructural facilities, all the 72 liquor shops in the district remained closed on Monday despite the orders of the state government to open them from 10.00 am to 7.00 pm. Now, the administration will make adequate arrangements to open shops from Tuesday.

Former NCP MP Ranjitsinh Mohite Patil and three others figure in the list of BJP candidates for the May 21 Maharashtra legislative council poll.

Sajjansingh Dhurve from Pondi in Junawani of Mandal Khajeri cannot believe that his colleagues, with whom he was heading home, are no more.

Three members of a family, including two women, were found murdered in Andhi village under the limits of Manda police station of Prayagraj district on Thursday morning.

The rapidly increasing tally of novel coronavirus cases in the state has alerted jail authorities who are fretful of the fallouts of Covid-19 outbreak within the prison walls and are taking preventive steps besides social distancing to ensure all staff and inmates stay healthy.

Following allegations of alleged torture and illegal confinement of two dalit youths at Sandaur police station in Sangrur district, Punjab Police on Friday suspended two cops, including an assistant sub-inspector and a home guard, and transferred three other policemen.

Despite a slow start, the stubble burning cases were drastically increased in the last two days. This harvesting season is started with one fourth of the burning cases than the previous season, according to the data released by Punjab Remote Sensing Centre(PRSC) on Friday.

Many drugs, especially those made of proteins, cannot be taken orally because they are broken down in the gastrointestinal tract before they can take effect. The researchers at MIT and Novo Nordisk, have designed a new drug capsule that can carry insulin or other protein drugs and protect them from the harsh environment of the gastrointestinal tract.

As many as 39 Covid-19 cases were reported within a week up to Wednesday from Davanagere city alone, excluding three fatalities and two recoveries.

A 46-year-old migrant worker from Jharkhand, who decided to reach home by foot, collapsed and died after walking for 100kms on Thursday.

Ten-year-old Romu Kumari and her sister Posu, 7, will be reunited with their parents after 52 days as the lockdown kept the family apart — the siblings staying with a relative here and the parents in Rajasthan. Moved by their story shared on social media, the district administration arranged for the children to travel to Sirohi in Rajasthan by car with two people accompanying them.

As soon as the tweet went viral, netizens including singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh, also expressed his joy in watching the street side bhangra!

The ration kits contain essential items like oil, sugar, soap etc and are being delivered to poor households along with monthly rations which have also been doubled.

For each 10-dirham ($2.7) donation, one of the building's 1.2 million LED lights will be illuminated -- each representing a meal.

To make it tougher for thieves to steal them, a new mask and has now been put on with cables that are a lot tougher to cut.

Perry, who won the Women’s T20 World Cup recently with Australia, is recovering from injury. Recently she said that she does not expect the coronavirus pandemic to have a long lasting negative effect.

To show your support and care to others, you can now use the new reaction added by Facebook.

Europa's images usually show a thick, icy shell and dark tints in a lot of areas. The surface is covered with long grooves and etched in a zig-zag manner.

In a post shared on Humans of Bombay page on Instagram, Varun said in his school days he was called a ‘defaulter’ and a ‘slow learner’, which discouraged his morale.

In an interview on social networking app Helo, Akhtar said that he has never stepped back from sharing his knowledge and he would be more than happy to do the same with Indian bowlers.

Posted on the organization’s official Instagram page, the meme shows a woman with the Instagram username ‘caring wife’ pass on a mask to her ‘forgetful husband’.

According to reports, the lion had been attempting to prey on cattle, which were held fast to a shed right next to the school.

Even as the viral Instagram account 'Boys Locker Room' brought back discourse about "glorification of rape culture" in India, many on the internet felt that what was happening to Zargar was yet another example of rape culture and normalisation of violence against women.

Late on Tuesday, Kohli took to his Instagram account and tried to pull his teammate Cheteshwar Pujara's legs with a snapshot from an old Test match.

Ironically, Hooda's Twitter handle mentions that he is an immigration consultant and also a community volunteer.

The coronavirus pandemic has put all the plans and gatherings on hold, including the biggest fashion gathering of the year.