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Workers still cram onto commuter trainsalbeit in smaller numbersand Japans parliament is hardly setting the tone for working from home, continuing to hold sessions and ministerial press conferences. (Representative Image)

Japanese mindsets about office work changing as coronavirus forces...

The image of going to the office is very strong in Japan, and you have to show that you work hard and long hours

31 March 2020 1:32 PM IST

Medics carry out screening as police cordoned off an area in Nizamuddin after some people showed coronavirus symptoms, in New Delhi. PTI photo

Foreigners who attended Nizamuddin religious event violating visa...

Foreigners among 8K people who attended Tabligh-e-Jamaat at Nizamuddin Markaz in March, many of whom have shown symptoms...

31 March 2020 12:51 PM IST

SARS-CoV-2, can be isolated from the faeces and urine of infected people, in which the pathogen can survive for up to several days after exiting the human body. (Representative Image)

UK university develops paper-based test kit to detect coronavirus in...

It may predict the potential spread of the virus by picking up signatures of it in faeces from disease carriers that...

31 March 2020 12:51 PM IST

Drones have been in use in the agriculture for the spraying of pesticides

IIT Guwahati follows Chennai startup's lead, develops drone to...

Several states are considering using drones to disinfect localities without putting workers at risk

31 March 2020 12:18 PM IST

A worker moves items at a Federal Medical Station for hospital surge capacity set up at Temple Universitys Liacouras Center. (Photo- AP)

Amid stagggering number of coronavirus deaths, New York asks for...

Even before the governor's appeal, close to 80,000 former nurses, doctors and other professionals were stepping up to...

31 March 2020 12:13 PM IST

Asian equities enjoyed a strong start. (Photo- AFP)

Asian stocks rise after Wall Street rally but traders remain nervous

After another rally on Wall Street, which saw all three main indexes jump more than three percent, Asia picked up the...

31 March 2020 11:27 AM IST

Embattled liquor baron Vijay Mallya. (Photo- PTI)

Consider my offer to repay Kingfisher Airlines' dues: Mallya asks FM

Mallya sought government help and said, "we are not sending employees home and paying the idle cost. Government has to...

31 March 2020 11:23 AM IST

BSE tower. (PHOTO- PTI)

Sensex rallies 1,028 pts, Nifty below 8,600; energy, FMCG stocks soar

ITC was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, rallying over 7 per cent, followed by Reliance Industries, ONGC, Tata Steel,...

31 March 2020 11:19 AM IST

People maintain social distance as they wait outside a shopping mall at Madhurawada as the whole nation goes lockdown to combat the spread of COVID-19 in Visakhapatnam on Monday. (DC Photo: Murali Krishna)

Jagan government takes over all private hospitals in Andhra Pradesh

British-era Epidemic Diseases Act invoked to effect takeover

31 March 2020 9:10 AM IST

Countdown clock for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been reset. AFP Photo

33 sports vote unanimously on Olympic dates

Initially, everyone had their own ideas, but in the end the prospect of placing the Games earlier in the year became...

31 March 2020 9:04 AM IST

A man and his child walk on a deserted street in Old Delhi on Friday, March 27, 2020. A whole clutch of coronavirus positive cases are being traced to a religious event that took place in the Nizamuddin area of Delhi earlier this month. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

6 die of Covid-19 in Telangana, all linked to Nizamuddin prayer...

All six had attended a Markaz at a mosque in the Nizamuddin area of Old Delhi

31 March 2020 8:28 AM IST

Government doctors sit inside a bus to go to the districts to serve as reinforcements during the nationwide coronavirus lockdown in Kolkata on March 27, 2020. (AFP)

DC Edit: Protect the doctors

Every medical professional is precious for India

31 March 2020 8:07 AM IST