There was no new Covid-19 case in the district for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday even as the state recorded another high volume of fresh cases.

Tamil Nadu on Thursday reported 580 Covid-19 cases, taking the state’s tally past 5,000 to 5,409. As the number of cases soared in the state capital and its neighbouring districts, all linked to the Koyambedu cluster, epidemiologists and public health experts warned that the crowds at liquor shops that opened on Thursday could result in another cluster and another surge in infections.

The first special train, carrying as many as 1,140 guest workers stranded in the district, left for Bihar from the Coimbatore Railway Junction on Friday. It is expected to reach Saharsa district on Sunday.

Malaysian police said 13 bodies, believed to be of Indonesian illegal immigrants, were found washed ashore after their boat capsized in bad sea conditions

The Airlander 10 is all set to be officially unveiled and promises to change the aviation industry around the world.

Sixty four people who flew from Singapore to Delhi on Friday were sent to various quarantine centres in the city. Of them, 16 have been sent to Lemon Tree, three are staying in Sky City Western Hotel, four in an Oyo room while 41 people are in community centres located in Shukhrali and Dundahera.

Industrial operations in Gurugram are yet to gather steam. The conditional green signal to resume operations was seen as a much-needed push to the economy. But those trying to get things back up and running realised it will be a challenge. Because the lockdown siloed cities and states. And businesses do not work in silos.

Those working at offices in Gurugram will have their first encounter with the post-Covid workplace on Monday. The new normal will have mandatory health checks, spaced out seating plans and markings in front of the coffee machine to tell you how far apart you should be.

Just three days after its last order notifying containment zones, the district administration on Friday added 11 new containment zones in the Gurugram block. Most are in old Gurugram. The district now has 32 containment zones.

To keep an eye on alcohol production, flow chart metres will be installed in liquor factories of the district, Ambala district excise and taxation controller (DETC) N K Grewal said. He said this will help officials in headquarters and field officers monitor extra neutral alcohol (ENA) production.

Thousands of migrant labourers on way to their home state Uttar Pradesh from Ludhiana in Punjab on Friday reached here on foot. But, halting their march, the district administration sent most of them back to Punjab, while the rest were accommodated in shelter homes of Ambala.

During the Covid-19 lockdown, Shanti, who was eight-month pregnant when she started her journey on foot along with her husband and two minor daughters from Rajpura in Patiala for Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh, was stopped by the Yamunanagar administration and quarantined at a shelter home in Chhachhrauli. While in quarantine, she gave birth to a baby at civil hospital, Chhachhrauli. On Friday, Shanti, her baby, and husband were facilitated by the district administration with their travel back to their native state in a cab.

Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Thursday accused Donald Trump's administration of undermining efforts towards a two-state solution, a day after the US president said he would unveil a new Middle East peace plan.

The latest victims of climate change could be Oreos, as drenched fields across the US make the wheat that’s a key ingredient a scarcer commodity. Winter-wheat plantings fell to their lowest levels in more than a century as the grain got harder to seed. Especially the soft red winter wheat, with sowings slumping 25%, a variety that forms the base for biscuits.

Extreme heat events such as those observed in Western Europe in 2003 and in Russia in 2010, which led to the death of nearly 1,000 people and multiple crop failures, are becoming more common in India, according to a study.

Britain should use economic stimulus measures to speed a shift away from fossil fuels and take advantage of low oil prices to raise revenues from carbon taxes without hurting consumers, state-appointed climate advisers said on Wednesday. Their proposals reinforce global pressure on governments to consider the environment as they pour money into their economies at levels unseen since World War Two to counter the impact of coronavirus lockdowns which threaten millions of jobs.

Directing officials to ensure that nobody walks back home, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said that the government was making all efforts in deploying buses and trains to bring back stranded migrant workers.

Chinese authorities are clamping down as grieving relatives, along with activists, press the ruling Communist Party for an accounting of what went wrong in Wuhan, the city where the coronavirus killed thousands before spreading to the rest of China and the world. Lawyers have been warned not to file suit against the government.

China reported one new case of coronavirus on Tuesday and no deaths, marking three weeks since it recorded a Covid-19 fatality. The National Health Commission said 395 people remained under treatment in the hospital, while 949 were under isolation and observation for suspected cases or after testing positive despite showing no symptoms.

China's Hong Kong affairs office on Wednesday condemned Hong Kong protesters as a "political virus" who seek independence, warning that the city will never be calm unless what it said were violent black-clad protesters were all removed.

Senior school students in 121 institutions were back in front of chalk boards and digital displays for the first time since their city -- the ground zero of the coronavirus pandemic -- shut down in January.

China on Wednesday dared US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to show "enormous evidence" he claimed to have to prove Covid-19 originated from a lab in Wuhan. "Pompeo cannot present any evidence because he does not have any," Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said. "This matter should be handled by scientists..instead of politicians," Hua said.

Taiwan will fail in its bid to take part in a key meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) as its efforts are not based on concern for the health of Taiwan's people but are "political manipulation", China said on Friday.

Moody's Investors Service on Friday projected India's growth at zero per cent for the current fiscal and said the negative outlook on sovereign rating reflects increasing risks that GDP growth will remain significantly lower than in the past. The outlook also partly shows weaker policy effectiveness to address economic and institutional issues.

Aarogya Setu, a government app developed for tracking Covid-19 patients, has become the most downloaded healthcare application and also featured among the top 10 downloaded apps in the world in April, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Friday. Close to nine crore users had downloaded the Aarogya Setu mobile application till May 4.