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Coronavirus threat forces Russia to curb WWII celebrations

President Vladimir Putin will give a 20-minute speech at a war memorial beside the Kremlin walls, an unprecedented move, instead of presiding over a traditional parade featuring thousands of troops and military equipment.




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Kim Jong Un sends Putin letter on WWII anniversary and for virus fight

The report by Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency on Saturday came a day after it reported Kim sent a personal message to Chinese President Xi Jinping to praise what he described as China's success in getting its Covid-19 epidemic under control.




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Garment exporters can resume operations, UP government issues clarification




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Noida: Infection source of more than 100 patients, 50% of cases, not known




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Nurse who went on home care visits tests positive




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Garment exporters can resume operations




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UP-Rera hearings start via video conference

The Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority (UP-Rera) on Friday started hearing buyers’ complaints through video conference. The regulatory authority was represented by chairman Rajive Kumar and other members, including Balvinder Singh.




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Teenage girl electrocuted in Coonoor taluk

A 19-year-old girl was electrocuted at Kunnakombai near Colakombai village in Coonoor taluk on Thursday.




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Mosque pelted with stones




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In Nilgiris, norms relaxed in four containment zones




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Hindu Munnani cadre assault DMK man, son




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TNAU invites applications




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Postal envelopes on Covid-19 released




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Tamil Nadu: Tasmac rakes in Rs 16 crore on Day 1

On Thursday, the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (Tasmac) made sales to the tune of Rs 16.40 crore in the district, much higher than the average sales per day.




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Boat capsizes off Malaysia, 13 Indonesian migrants drowned

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




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Ex-strongman Rajapaksa's son arrested in Lanka

Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's son was arrested on Saturday along with four other people over money laundering allegations.




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Airlander 10: Flying won't be the same again

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




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Thai businessman convicted of selling fake bomb detectors

Many millions of dollars of the devices were sold to the Thai army and other security forces around the world. A court in Thailand has convicted a local businessman of fraud for selling fake bomb detectors to the Thai government, five years after a court in the United Kingdom sentenced the British head of the company that supplied them to seven years in prison in a scandal that was worldwide in scale




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Gurugram has 75 active cases and one Covid hospital as Medanta halts admission

While the city teeters on the edge of becoming a red zone with increasing number of novel coronavirus cases every day, Gurugram has only one functioning Covid hospital at the moment.




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Plan to set up isolation centres in Gurugram's DLF-2 shelved after protests

Officials of the district administration had to face the ire of DLF-2 residents on Friday as several of them defied lockdown orders and protested against the proposed takeover of two guest houses in the area for setting up Covid quarantine centres. The authorities were finally forced to shelve the plan.




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Haryana: Private schools violating fee order to face action

In the wake of increasing complaints against several private schools violating education department guidelines on school fees, the state government on Friday ordered all divisional commissioners to redress the grievances of parents and submit action taken reports at the earliest.




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Gurugram: New normal? No facing workstations, social distancing at coffee machine

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.




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11 more areas sealed, Gurugram has 32 containment zones now

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.




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Five days after cases, 11 doctors quarantined in Sonipat college

Five days after three doctors working in the Covid hospital of BPS Khanpur Medical College, Sonipat, were found positive of coronavirus, 11 junior doctors who were their contacts have been sent in 14-day quarantine.




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Haryana: Month after plan, PGIMS Rohtak yet to get coronavirus facility

Even after a month of unveiling plan to turn its trauma center of PGIMS Rohtak into exclusive Covid-19 hospital to provide testing and treatment under one roof, there has hardly been any move in the direction.




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Abbas accuses US of undermining two-state solution

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.




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Jeff Bezos pledges $10 billion to fight climate change

"Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet. I want to work alongside others, both to amplify known ways and to explore new ways of fighting the devastating impact of climate change,' said Bezos who is worth $130 billion.




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India becoming more prone to extreme hot weather, scientists warn

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.




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Mumbai gets lion’s share of govt’s pollution fund

Mumbai is set to get the highest grant of Rs 488 crore from the Centre’s Rs 4,400 crore fund which is earmarked exclusively for cities with more than one million population in states to improve air quality during 2020-21. Delhi may miss this assistance despite figuring among the most polluted cities in the country as the fund would only be meant for ‘million plus’ population cities in states.




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Covid-19: UN body postpones its flagship climate meet COP26 devastation

The COVID-19 spread has forced the UN body to postpone its flagship annual climate change conference which was scheduled to be held at Glasgow in United Kingdom (UK) in November. This crucial meet will now be held in 2021 -- the first year of the operationalisation of the the Paris Agreement.




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Record-breaking hole in ozone layer over Arctic closed: EU sat




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​IMF leader says pandemic stimulus must focus on battling climate crisis




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Brazil to deploy troops to protect Amazon as deforestation surges




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Five lakh fruit trees to be planted across India on Environment Day




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Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rose sharply last month




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Ghazipur CRPF martyr cremated with full honours




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After booze session, buddies murder man




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Covid-19 suspect dies at isolation ward in Ballia




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BHU lab functional again, 206 Covid-19 samples sent




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Varanasi: No new Covid-19 case, 3 hotspots shift to green zone




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Varanasi: Mother, sister kill woman for extramarital relations




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Varanasi: Priests perform ‘aarti’ onroad, DM says norms broken




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Varanasi: Woman killed by daughter, grandson over land dispute




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Covid-19: Global backlash builds against China over coronavirus

Australia has called for an inquiry into the origin of the coronavirus. Germany and Britain are hesitating anew about inviting in Chinese tech giant Huawei. President Trump has blamed China for the contagion and is seeking to punish it. Some govts want to sue Beijing. Across the globe, a backlash is building against China for its initial mishandling of the crisis.




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Coronavirus survivors want answers, and China is silencing them

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.




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China reports 16 new coronavirus cases, total tally reaches 82,881




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Job prospects for China's fresh graduates bleak as Red Dragon limps back to normalcy

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.




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Hong Kong will never be calm unless violent protesters removed: China

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.




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China asks Pompeo to show 'enormous evidence' of coronavirus originating from Wuhan lab

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.




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President Xi warns against complacency as China downgrades Covid-19 risk levels in all regions