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A man wearing a face mask amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak walks across a street in Tokyo. (AFP)World
Has Japan dodged the coronavirus bullet?

With infections sharply down, Japanese government is now hoping to lift the state of emergency declared in most of the...

14 May 2020 9:57 AM IST

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. (PTI Photo)Business
In first tranche of stimulus, MSMEs to get collateral-free loans to...

Employees' Provident Fund contributions will be paid by government for next three months

14 May 2020 9:44 AM IST

Vijay Mallya asks govt to accept loan repayment offer, close case against him. (AFP Photo)Business
Accept loan repayment offer, close case against me: Vijay Mallya asks...

While congratulating government over Rs 20 lakh crore package, Mallya lamented that his repeated offers to repay his...

14 May 2020 9:34 AM IST

Oil prices crept up on Thursday, supported by a surprise decline of U.S. crude inventories. (AFP Photo)Business
Oil prices edge higher on surprise US stock drawdown, but demand...

Prices have risen in the past two weeks as some countries relaxed coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns

14 May 2020 9:09 AM IST

Guests dine in-house at a restaurant in Phoenix. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has allowed the reopening of restaurants in-house dining, gyms, spas and community swimming pools since Monday. (AP)World
Experts warn virus spikes could emerge even weeks after US reopening

The tension in balancing people's safety against severe economic fallout is playing out across the world

14 May 2020 9:05 AM IST

US president Donald Trump. (AFP)World
Trump presses for schools to reopen despite Fauci's warnings

Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House, said he found Fauci's latest call for a highly cautious reopening "not...

14 May 2020 8:56 AM IST

Baseball fans enter the Xinzhuang Baseball Stadium in New Taipei City, Taiwan, Friday, May 8, 2020. Up to 1,000 spectators are now allowed in the stands for baseball in Taiwan on Friday, albeit spaced far apart as a safeguard against the spread of the coronavirus, but they are still barred from bringing in food and concession stands are still closed. (Photo | AP)Opinion
How Taiwan kept COVID-19 cases down to a mere 440, despite close ties...

The country's speedy, efficient and expert-led action, despite not having WHO membership, becomes a blueprint for...

13 May 2020 10:44 PM IST

Patna: A health worker sanitizes migrants who have arrived from Jaipur by Shramik Special train at Danapur junction, during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, in Patna. PTI PhotoIndia
Corona cases spurt as workers return to heartland states

UP, Bihar and Odisha are in the line of fire amid the migrant crisis.

13 May 2020 8:55 PM IST

In a 2018 lawsuit, third-party contractors for the company said that Facebook failed to properly protect them against severe psychological and other injuries that can result from repeated exposure to graphic material such as child sexual abuse, beheadings, terrorism, animal cruelty and other disturbing images.Technology
Moderators who sued Facebook for mental distress from watching graphic...

The settlement grants US moderators who were part of the class action lawsuit USD 1,000 each totalling USD 52 million.

13 May 2020 8:41 PM IST

At least three people were killed and 20 injured in the 2018 unrest, during which mosques and Muslim businesses were burned, and the government had to impose an emergency/ (Representative Image | AFP)Technology
Probe finds that hate speech spread on Facebook led to 2018 Sri Lanka...

Riots erupted as anti-Muslim anger was whipped up on social media, forcing the Sri Lankan government to impose emergency...

13 May 2020 8:10 PM IST

A protester holds up a sign that reads \No chance for (Bill) Gates - no forced vaccination\, which propagates a conspiracy theory that COVID-19 is man-made and being spread by flu shots, during a demonstration against the restrictions implemented to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, at the grounds of the Cannstatter Wasen festival in Stuttgart, southern Germany, on May 9, 2020. (Photo | AFP)Technology
Covid consipracy theory video Plandemic' viewed by millions before...

Its spread illustrates how easy it is to use social media as a megaphone for dubious content, and how difficult for...

13 May 2020 7:51 PM IST

r: Farmers harvest strawberries in a field, during the ongoing nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus, in Srinagar, Wednesday. PTI photoOpinion
Chandrajit Banerjee: How to restart economy in a way that's safe and...

With companies shutting shop as a result of the lockdown, the corporate performance outlook for the current financial...

13 May 2020 6:16 PM IST

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