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A firefighter sprays disinfectant as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in a containment zone in Chennai on May 11, 2020. (AFP)

Coronavirus-hit Mumbai civic hospitals face 30 per cent crunch of...

Deputy executive health officer Dr Daksha Shah, however, clarified that they have started the recruitment procedure.

13 Jun 2020 1:35 PM IST

Indian Army chief MM Naravane. (ANI)

Everything is under control at China border: Army chief assures...

He said the ongoing dialogue will sort out all the perceived differences between the two countries.

13 Jun 2020 1:06 PM IST

A cemetery worker puts a cranium into a bag while exhuming the body of a person buried three years ago at the Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo. (AP)

Cemeteries cleaned up' to bury more in Brazil as virus deaths spike up

Brazil's biggest metropolis is digging up the bones of people buried in the past to create space for new bodies

13 Jun 2020 12:52 PM IST

The Indo-China border (AFP)

Ladakh standoff: India and China engage in military talks to...

Another round of Lieutenant General-level talks may be held in the coming days to try to resolve the Pangong Tso issue.

13 Jun 2020 12:34 PM IST

A long shot of Paris. (AFP)

Protesters dislodge artwork from Paris museum to return it to Africa

The five protesters were stopped before they could leave the Quai Branly Museum with the artwork

13 Jun 2020 12:13 PM IST

Petrol and diesel prices on Thursday were hiked by 60 paise per litre each. (PTI Photo)

Petrol price rise by 59 paise per litre, diesel by 58 paise; seventh...

Rates have been increased across the country and vary from state to state.

13 Jun 2020 12:03 PM IST

Police move in to disperse protesters that had gathered in Sydney, Friday, June 12, 2020, to support U.S. protests over the death of George Floyd. Hundreds of police disrupted plans for a Black Lives Matter rally but protest organizers have vowed that other rallies will continue around Australia over the weekend despite warnings of the pandemic risk. (AP)

BLM rallies hit Australia for 2nd weekend, some banned

Thousands of people protested in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane against racism and the deaths of Indigenous Australians...

13 Jun 2020 11:43 AM IST

PM Narendra Modi (PTI photo)

As coronavirus crisis grows, PM Modi to interact with CMs on June 16...

The interaction comes at a time when multi-fold spike in coronavirus cases has been recorded across India.

13 Jun 2020 11:29 AM IST

North and South America currently have 4 of the 10 worst hit countries in the world

North and South America currently have 4 of the 10 worst hit countries...

The disease is 'highly active in Central and South America, says WHO's emergency expert, highlighting problems in Brazil...

13 Jun 2020 11:17 AM IST

Activists from the Brazilian NGO Rio de Paz (Peace Rio), stand next to 100 mock graves on Copacabana beach symbolizing deaths from the COVID-19 coronavirus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AFP)

Brazil now unenviably the second in virus deaths

Brazil's health ministry recorded 909 deaths in the past 24 hours, putting the total at 41,828, and has now surpassed...

13 Jun 2020 10:37 AM IST

People gather on the street outside the closed Jingshen seafood market in Beijing on June 12, 2020. - Beijings Xinfadi meat wholesale market and Jingshen seafood market were closed for disinfection and environmental sample collection after it emerged both were visited by two newly identified coronavirus patients, local media reported. (AFP)

Beijing wholesale market temporarily shut after new coronavirus...

Authorities had earlier halted beef and mutton trading at the Xinfadi market, alongside closures at other wholesale...

13 Jun 2020 10:20 AM IST

Demonstrators pass a gay pride flag as they walk during a protest billed as Justice for Tony McDade, Sunday, June 7, 2020, in Atlanta. McDade, a black transgender man, was shot and killed by police in late May in Tallahassee, Fla., two days after George Floyds death in Minneapolis. (AP)

Trump administration reverses transgender health care protection

Sex discrimination protections will be enforced according to the plain meaning of the word sex' as male or female, as...

13 Jun 2020 9:05 AM IST