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A medic uses a thermal screening device on a boy during a door-to-door survey to detect COVID-19 cases in Nagaon district in Assam. (PTI)

Medics around the world face hostility over virus stigma

In countries like India, Egypt, Mexico and elsewhere, doctors and nurses are intimidated and treated like pariahs...

16 May 2020 3:56 PM IST

In retaliation for banning Huawei, China put US companies such as Apple on the unreliable entity list.

US' suppression of Huawei destroying global manufacturing, value and...

The US has set controls that would target Huawei's acquisition of semiconductors that are the product of certain US...

16 May 2020 3:54 PM IST

Social media image posted by the Congress party showing Rahul Gandhi addressing a press conference by video link on April 16, 2020.

Rahul Gandhi urges Modi-led Centre to reconsider its economic package

He said he was trying to put pressure on the government for generating demand by putting money into the accounts of the...

16 May 2020 2:32 PM IST

Army personnel leave after an encounter with the militants in the Chanjmullah area of Handwara in Kupwara district of north Kashmir, Sunday, May 3, 2020. An Army Colonel and a Major were among five security personnel killed in the encounter with terrorists. (PTI Photo) (PTI03-05-2020_000190A)

Jammu and Kashmir: Security forces bust hideout, nab 5 militant...

Incriminating material, including arms and ammunition, were recovered from the hideout.

16 May 2020 1:48 PM IST

Stranded migrants board a truck to reach their native places in Uttar Pradesh, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, at Bakania bypass in Bhopa. PTI Photo

Despite Covid-19 risk, migrant labourers prefer trucks to Shramik...

The migrants find trucks and tempos convenient, mostly because they drop them close to their home.

16 May 2020 1:17 PM IST

US president Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House. (AP)

Just don't want to talk to Xi Jinping right now: Trump

The US's criticism on how Chinese leadership handled the coronavirus outbreak has led to a spat between both the...

16 May 2020 12:51 PM IST

A Yemeni doctor talks to a patient receiving treatment and lying on a bed at a hospital in Aden, Yemen. (AP)

Yemen's fragile health sector struggles to keep virus spread in check

WHO says its models suggest that half of Yemen's population of 30 million could be infected and more than 40,000 could...

16 May 2020 12:31 PM IST

Mukesh Ambanis Reliance Industries to consider first rights. (PTI Photo)

Reliance Industries to open Rs 53K crore rights issue for shareholders...

This is India's biggest and the first such issue by the firm in nearly three decades.

16 May 2020 12:08 PM IST

US president Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he departs the White House on Marine One. (AP)

In US, pandemic planning becomes political weapon

Trump has repeatedly said that the blame for inadequate supplies and machines to cope with an outbreak lay with his...

16 May 2020 11:56 AM IST

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the Brady press briefing room of the White House. (AP Photo)

Covid-19 crisis: Donald Trump says US will donate ventilators to India

Trump said Indian-Americans were "great" scientists and researchers, who were contributing to the development of the...

16 May 2020 11:19 AM IST

A worker in protective gear sanitizes the exterior of Saint John in Lateran Basilica, in Rome. (AP)

Italy to allow international travel from June 3

In a bid to contain the contagion, Italy was the first European country to impose nationwide restrictions in March

16 May 2020 11:16 AM IST

Pakistans former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. (AFP)

Two more corruption cases against Nawaz Sharif

Five corruption cases have been launched against the former Pakistan PM since his ouster from the office by the Supreme...

16 May 2020 10:49 AM IST