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Healthcare workers check temperature of labourers at a camp, organised in an effort to control the spread of new coronavirus, in Mumbai. PTI photo

Coronavirus cases in India now stand at 6,48,315 after record spike of...

India's COVID-19 tally climbed to 6,48,315 on Saturday.

4 July 2020 11:36 AM IST

US President Donald Trump watches as planes perform fly-overs of the Mount Rushmore National Monument Friday, July 3, 2020, in Keystone, S.D. (AP)

Trump pushes racial division, flouts virus rules at Rushmore

Leaders of Native American tribes in the region raised concerns that Trump's campaigns could lead to virus outbreaks...

4 July 2020 11:09 AM IST

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi (AFP)

Pakistani foreign minister tests positive for COVID-19, had contact...

The minister had come in contact with PM Imran Khan in parliament, and also US representative Khalilzad to discuss on...

4 July 2020 10:07 AM IST

Health workers carry a COVID-19 patient on a stretcher made with pipe tubes and and using kitchen gloves in Puerto Carreno, Colombian Amazon, on the border with Peru, on July 3, 2020. (AFP)

Global coronavirus cases rise to more than 11 million

The number of cases is more than double the figure for severe influenza illnesses recorded annually, according to World...

4 July 2020 9:12 AM IST

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a press conference organised by the Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU) amid the COVID-19 outbreak, caused by the novel coronavirus, on July 3, 2020 at the WHO headquarters in Geneva.(AFP)

WHO says it was alerted about virus by its own office in China, not...

The UN health body has been accused by US President Trump of being complacent towards China, which it denies

4 July 2020 9:01 AM IST

Monsoon will be normal this year. (PTI Photo)

IMD issues orange alert; very heavy' rainfall likely during the...

Mumbai will witness generally cloudy sky with light to moderate rain in the city and suburbs.

4 July 2020 2:43 AM IST

In this June 19, 2019 photo construction crews work on the replacement border wall on the boundary between the United States and Mexico near the Calexico Port of Entry. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which built the steel wall, plans to install 200 autonomous surveillance towers by 2022, after a two-year pilot project using four. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Mani Albrecht of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Public Affairs)

Eye in the sky tower: AI will monitor US-Mexico border, tip off patrol...

Of the 2,000 mile border with Mexico, Trump's steel wall covers just 200 miles, and border patrol agents can't be...

3 July 2020 9:24 PM IST

Local police have been granted wider surveillance powers to monitor suspects, including wiretapping and accessing digital communications, without a judges approval. In this photo,

Hong Kongers worried about being targeted by national security law...

With mainland China enforcing the law, views such as wanting independence became outlawed overnight.

3 July 2020 8:41 PM IST

The former Indian skipper will be turning 39 on July 7

Dhoni saves a bird

is daughter, 5-year-old Ziva took to Instagram to describe how her Papa saved the life of a tiny bird!

3 July 2020 6:47 PM IST

The duo has been pushing the envelope when it comes to creating unique visual experiences for audiences.

Brother-sister duo on cloud 8

With Phillauri, Pari and now Bulbbul, Anushka Sharma's production house has been successful in consistently raising...

3 July 2020 6:30 PM IST

Zachary Greene wears a face mask while protesting in front of the Lifsey residence where the USF President Steven Currall lives on campus on July 2, 2020 in Tampa, Florida. Tampa Bay Students for Democratic Society protest at the University of South Florida demanding an increase in Black student enrollment, employ more Black faculty and staff, more financial aid, and make direct connections with the surrounding community. Black workers account for 3.8% of all U.S. Facebook employees and 1.5% of all U.S. technical workers at the company. Those numbers have barely budged over the past several years, a common pattern across large Silicon Valley firms. (Photo | AFP)

Black lives don't matter at Facebook, only on their posters, staffer...

This isn't the first criticism a Black employee has levelled at Facebook.

3 July 2020 6:22 PM IST