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US President Donald Trump. (AFP)

Trump administration ignored COVID-19 warnings, alleges fired American...

Scientist in US turns whistleblower against government's decision to flood its market with malaria drug without proper...

6 May 2020 9:35 AM IST

The Inter Ministerial Central Team visits King Koti Hospital in Hyderabad to assess Telangana states response to the Covid crisis. (PTI)

Pick and choose policy on corona puts doctors' lives at risk

Each state interpreting the ICMR's guidelines in its own way

6 May 2020 9:27 AM IST

Influenza like cases found in Bengal. (PTI Photo)

91.5K influenza like cases found in Bengal

West Bengal CM informed that 91,515 cases of Influenza-like Illness (ILI), 872 cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Illness...

6 May 2020 9:19 AM IST

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to close down the wine shops in Mumbai again. (DC Photo)

Mumbai shuts non-essential, liquor shops after lockdown norms flouted

Mumbai city has been categorised in red zone with the number of coronavirus positive cases rising and the downward trend...

6 May 2020 8:54 AM IST

An Egyptian doctor gives medical advice to girls about Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) during an awareness campaign in Giza

Women hail victory as Sudan bans genital cutting

Nearly nine out of 10 girls in Sudan fall victim to what is known as FGM or genital cutting, according to the United...

6 May 2020 8:53 AM IST

Indians line up to buy liquor outside one the liquor shops which was reopened Monday after six weeks lockdown in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 4, 2020. Indias six-week coronavirus lockdown, which was supposed to end on Monday, has been extended for another two weeks, with a few relaxations. Locking down the countrys 1.3 billion people has slowed down the spread of the virus, but has come at the enormous cost of upending lives and millions of lost jobs. (AP Photo)

India sees its biggest jump in coronavirus cases

The total number of India's Covid-19 cases stood at 46,711 on Tuesday.

6 May 2020 8:49 AM IST

Oil prices slipped back Wednesday after two days of gains, although Brent crude remained above $30 a barrel. (AFP Photo)

Oil prices slide as US-China tensions offset virus hope

Oil markets have been battered as the virus strangled demand due to business closures and travel restrictions

6 May 2020 8:42 AM IST

The Indian Navy has launched Operation Samudra Setu as part of the effort to bring Indian citizens home from overseas. Indian naval ships Jalashwa and Magar are presently en route to the port of Mal¨ in the Maldives to commence evacuation operations from 8 May 2020 as part of phase-1 of the operation. (PTI representational image)

Indians stranded in 13 countries to be brought home

Navy sends two ships to Maldives to bring back 8,000 Indian nationals

6 May 2020 7:52 AM IST

The Army Research and Referral Hospital near New Delhi. (Photo: Facebook)

24 corona positives detected at Indian Army hospital in Delhi

In all, 84 armed forces personnel being quarantined for coronavirus infection

6 May 2020 7:30 AM IST

Time to take a coffee break from work at home.

Confessions from corona containment

Sometimes it takes a deadly pandemic to show you the good, bad and ugly side of life

6 May 2020 7:11 AM IST

Six-year-old Muneefa Nazir, a Kashmiri girl whose right eye was hit by a marble ball shot allegedly by Indian paramilitary soldiers on August 12, 2019. This image was part of a series of photographs by Associated Press photographers which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (AP/Mukhtar Khan)

3 J&K photojournalists win Pulitzer Prize for photography

Mukhtar Khan, Dar Yasin and Channi Anand cited for excellence in news photography under trying circumstances

5 May 2020 10:52 PM IST

People wear face masks as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus as they use a phone app to scan a code required to prove their health and travel status before being allowed to enter a shopping mall in Beijing on May 2, 2020, the second day of a five-day national holiday. The debate on privacy protection while using such apps is especially urgent in Europe, where academics and civil liberties activists are pushing for solutions that protect personal data. Eastern nations are less likely to adhere to privacy protection norms followed in the West. (Photo | AFP)

Location tracking not allowed on apps using Google, Apple APIs but...

Aarogya Setu, which runs on its own Application Program Interface or API, is not bound by international privacy...

5 May 2020 8:32 PM IST