The Kalyan-Dombivli and Ulhasnagar civic corporations have decided that they will deny entry to local residents who are employed in essential services in Mumbai in their respective cities from May 8. The civic bodies have said these people could unknowingly be carrying the coronavirus and could infect others.

With 40 new cases on Tuesday, Thane saw a record one-day rise.The total number is now 452, which includes 93 discharged.Two more deaths were reported on Tuesday, taking the death toll to 18.

A day after Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) and Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation decided to deny entry to local residents employed in essential services in Mumbai and residing in Kalyan-Dombivli and Ulhasnagar limits from May 8, both corporations issued fresh order on Wednesday staying their order passed on Tuesday.

A 29-year-old man with the help of a Pakistani friend blackmailed his ex-girlfriend and demanded Rs 1 lakh in exchange of their intimate photos and videos, the accused was arrested by the Thane anti extortion cell.

The civic body in Thane city has deployed marshals in slums and congested localities to ensure proper enforcement of the Covid-19 lockdown, an official said on Thursday.

The state government’s decision to ease the lockdown restrictions for industries has received a huge response with 44,474 manufacturing units self-certifying online to resume operations. However, there is a hitch. Of the total requirement of 9.6 lakh workers, only 5.3 lakh workers have reported to work so far. This, even as the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy pegged unemployment rate for Maharashtra in April at 20.9%.

For the third time in a row, the city recorded highest one-day rise in the number of Covid-19 patients, with 64 positive cases detected on Thursday, taking the total to 560 patients.

Kalyan-Dombivli area in last 24 hours witnessed 27 new cases, which includes 21 people who work outside city limits and are working in essential services. The total number of cases have reached 280 in the twin city including three deaths.

Pompeo said that United States would not enforce sanctions on Iraq buying electricity from Iran for 120 days 'as a display of our desire to help provide the right conditions for success'.

Organisers call the project 'Serres Séparées' (Separate Greenhouses) because they say it sounds better in French.

New York, where nearly 20,000 people have died of COVID-19, is the epicenter of the US virus pandemic. Latinos and African-Americans are the principal victims, experiencing a mortality rate nearly double of that of white Americans.

“As I watch the numbers, it’s like OK, are we going to make it back by the end of May?" Egert asked. "Is it going to be the first of June? Is it going to be mid-June?”

Thursday’s doodle is part of Google’s 'Stay and Play at Home with Popular Past Google Doodles' series.

Zalmay Khalilzad, US Special Representative for Afghanistan, will meet Indian officials to discuss the country's role in sustainable peace in Afghanistan and the region.

The bill proposes to increase the scope of cases the CFIUS reviews and sends to the president prior to a financial transaction.

Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, who gave up the intelligence post when he became the prime minister-designate, assumes the premiership as Iraq faces unprecedented crises due to Covid-19.

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has continuously denied that India has entered the community transmission phase. To each question put to the government on community transmission, during government briefings, it has maintained that contact tracing is being carried out at state levels and the cases can only be classified as local and cluster transmissions.

An H-4 visa is issued by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to the immediate family members of the H-1B visa-holders, most of whom are Indian IT professionals.

The IMF on Wednesday approved a disbursement to Nepal of about USD 214 million to help the Himalayan nation cover the urgent balance of payments and fiscal needs stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.

As more and more South Koreans were released from treatment for Covid-19, authorities discovered some ostensibly cured patients were later testing positive again.

LG Chem said in a statement that the gas emitted in the leak can cause nausea and dizziness when inhaled. It said it was seeking to ensure casualties received treatment quickly.

The Costa Atlantica now hosts one of Japan's biggest clusters of the coronavirus, which infected one-fourth of the more than 600 people then on board.

As negotiations continue, Estonia, which holds the current UNSC presidency, has been very critical of the UN’s role in the pandemic.

Xi said the spread of the virus overseas has not been effectively curbed yet and cluster cases were reported in a few areas in China, posing considerable uncertainty to the epidemic control.

They found almost 200 recurrent genetic mutations of the new coronavirus - SARS-CoV-2 - that show how it may be evolving as it spreads in people.

The United Nations estimates that the life expectancy of indigenous people can be up to 20 years lower than that of their counterparts.

Scientists at University College London's Genetics Institute found almost 200 recurrent genetic mutations of the new coronavirus - SARS-CoV-2 - which the UCL researchers said showed how it is adapting to its human hosts as it spreads.

A foreign services officer in Pakistan, who was posted in Ukraine, has been sacked after he was found guilty of sexually harassing a local worker.

India has objected to the CPEC — a planned network of roads, railways and energy projects linking China's Xinjiang province with Pakistan's Gwadar Port — as it is being laid through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

For flights between India and Singapore, the charge is Rs 18,000-20,000 per passenger, and it is Rs 50,000 per person for India-UK flights.

Scientists said the structural makeup of SARS-CoV-2 suggests that it will behave differently in aqueous environments, compared to other viruses typically found in the intestine.

Russia now ranks fourth in the overall number of reported virus cases in Europe and fifth in the world.

The decision is being taken because the country's large number of poor people and labourers cannot not afford to live under lockdown any more.

Tension between USA and China has reached fever pitch in recent days as they have exchanged barbed comments on each other's handling of the coronavvirus.

London's Pakistani-origin mayor fears it's not possible to understand the full extent of this disparity as, unlike in Scotland, ethnicity is not recorded on death certificates in England.

Spanish health authorities reported about 200 new fatalities, taking the total death toll just over 26,000 since the start of the outbreak in Spain

The Knesset or Parliament voted by 71 votes to 37 to back the power-sharing deal between Netanyahu's Likud and his main rival former military chief Benny Gantz's Blue and White parties.

The BoE kept its benchmark interest rate at an all-time low of 0.1% and left its target for bond-buying, most of it British government debt, at 645 billion pounds.

The guidance contained detailed advice for making site-specific decisions related to reopening schools, restaurants, summer camps, churches, day care centers and other institutions.

The former couple married in 1993 and had four children – Lara Lettice, 26, Milo Arthur, 24, Cassia Peaches, 22, and Theodore Apollo, 20 – before announcing their split in 2018.

The exemption would be the longest period of time in months granted to Iraq to prove it is making progress in becoming less reliant on Iranian imports, a key condition of receiving the waiver.

While Israel's defence ministry announced a breakthrough in the development of an antibody, Rome-based biotech firm Takis said vaccine tests had shown positive effects.

South Africa's parliament is closed and all its meetings are currently held by video conference calls as the country remains under strict lockdown restrictions to combat the spread of the coronavirus.