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Covid recovery rate improving. (PTI Photo)

Covid recovery rate improving: Health Ministry

Health ministry officials said the recovery rate has gradually improved from 7.1% to 39.62% now as almost 40%

21 May 2020 11:00 AM IST

Japans exports plunged nearly 22 per cent in Apri. (AFP)

Recession-hit Japan's exports, imports fall due to pandemic

The drop in exports is the worst since the 2008 financial crisis, as export-dependent Japan struggles to juggle the...

21 May 2020 10:22 AM IST

Global equities have received a boost this week as governments around the world gradually loosened their coronavirus lockdown restrictions. (AFP Photo)

Asia shares rise on hopes of rapid economic recovery

Global equities have received a boost this week as governments around the world gradually loosened their coronavirus...

21 May 2020 8:55 AM IST

Associated Press reporter Zen Soo eats her lunch at the dining table at home while serving a two-week home quarantine in Hong Kong, April 17, 2020. Hong Kong issued quarantine wristbands to monitor returning residents of the city while they serve their mandatory 14-day quarantine, in a bid to curb local transmissions of COVID-19 during the pandemic. (Photo | AP)

On quarantine, wearing a government-mandated location tracker, how...

An Associated Press reporter in Hong Kong describes her experience.

20 May 2020 8:37 PM IST

China accuses India of crossing boundary line in Galwan Valley. (AFP Photo)

AA Edit: Soothe dragon's feathers

The Chinese may be making things just a bit more difficult for India when Nepal is revving up a territorial dispute with...

20 May 2020 8:08 PM IST

Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi has grandly announced about Rs 20 lakh crores worth stimulus package to support a wavering economy, the analysis of announcements made finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman showed that it was a mere jugglery to hog the limelight. PTI Photo

AA Edit: Cash relief is crucial, finance minister didn't acknowledge...

Instead of supporting the economy when it needed the most, Ms Sitharaman focused on medium and long term reforms

20 May 2020 7:51 PM IST

Google said it will honour all existing contracts with its customers, but didnt specify what companies. Greenpeaces report says Microsoft appears to be leading the way with the most oil and contracts, offering AI capabilities in all phases of oil production. Amazons contracts are more focused on pipelines, shipping and fuel storage, according to the report. (Photo | Flicker)

Reminded of its climate change pledge, Google says it will stop...

Greenpeace report said Amazon, Microsoft, Google undermining their own climate pledges by partnering with Shell, BP,...

20 May 2020 7:45 PM IST

An aerial view of Hebbal flyover during the nationwide lockdown, imposed in wake of the coronavirus pandemic, in Bengaluru. (PTI)

Investigations on to find the reason behind the boom sound

While police commissioner Bhaskar Rao stated that no damage has been reported

20 May 2020 7:44 PM IST

Representational image (PTI)

Get ready for Manic Monday, June 1

On Tuesday Home Ministry hd in an important move announced that permission of the State where trains are to reach was...

20 May 2020 7:20 PM IST

A United Nations campaign image on stopping sexual abuse.

In the wake of #BoisLockerRoom, CBSE issues cyber safety advisory for...

Students are told to block and if need be report as soon as possible if someone makes them uncomfortable on a social...

20 May 2020 6:46 PM IST

The death penalty is inherently cruel and inhumane, and Singapores use of remote technology like Zoom to sentence a man to death makes it even more so, said Human Rights Watch deputy Asia director Phil Robertson.

'Death sentence given over Zoom inhumane, man should have right to see...

Singapore court conducting drug trafficking case on Zoom criticised for pronouncing a death sentence over the...

20 May 2020 5:28 PM IST

AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria are on the rise in Africa, especially due to cyclones. (Photo: Representational/ Pixabay)

IMD: Cyclone Amphan begins landfall, process to continue for 4 hours

Odisha and West Bengal have evacuated nearly 1.5 lakh and 3.3 lakh people respectively.

20 May 2020 5:26 PM IST