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A health worker collects a swab sample of a man for Covid19 test in a swab collection booth in Vijawayada. PTI Photo

Covid-19 death toll stands at 1,218; total cases cross 37K

Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha and Assam have reported one fatality each.

2 May 2020 10:58 AM IST

A 2017 file photo of people queuing up to buy liquor at a vend in Hyderabad. (AA Photo)

New lockdown law says OK to buy booze. But KCR regime ain't falling...

The state desperately needs cash but nothing is more important than citizen's lives

2 May 2020 10:43 AM IST

Kapil Wadhawan (left) and Dheeraj Wadhawan being produced at a special court by CBI in Yes Bank scam case. (PTI)

Yes Bank: Wadhawan brothers' CBI custody extended till May 8

CBI sought their further custody on the ground that they want to investigate the deeper conspiracy between Rana Kapoor...

2 May 2020 10:42 AM IST

Britains Andy Murray at a post match news conference at the Wimbledon Championships. AFP Photo

Many top male players support ATP-WTA merger: Andy Murray

20-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer renewed the call for merger of the men's and women's governing bodies

2 May 2020 10:41 AM IST

Health workers wearing protective suits are seen in the premises of LNJP Hospital during the nationwide lockdown, in wake of the coronavirus pandemic, in New Delhi. (PTI photo)

Covid-19: 137 pilgrims who returned from Huzur Sahib in Nanded test...

Meanwhile, Punjab on Friday reported 105 new Covid-19 cases

2 May 2020 10:29 AM IST

A medical worker wearing protective equipment looks through the window at arriving ambulances at the Pokrovskaya hospital in St.Petersburg, Russia. (AP)

Russia reports record spike in daily Covid cases after PM's infection

The nationwide case tally rose by 7,933 cases and now stands at 114,431, while the official overall death toll stands at...

2 May 2020 10:28 AM IST

A Health Care Worker walks across the parking lot at the Pro Health Urgent Care coronavirus testing site in Wantagh, New York. (AFP)

Countries must prepare for virus resurgence after easing lockdown: WHO

WHO director-general defended of his and the WHO's timely actions in declaring the new coronavirus an international...

2 May 2020 10:12 AM IST

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (centre) visiting the completed Suchon phosphate fertilizer factory in South Pyongan Province, North Korea on May 1st. (Released from North Koreas official Korean Central News Agency)

Kim Jong Un reappears in public after weeks of health rumours

The leader's recent absence from public events had triggered a series of fevered rumours and unconfirmed reports over...

2 May 2020 9:42 AM IST

A woman squeezes through a barricade set up at a containment zone in Hyderabad on Friday, May 1, 2020. Doctors in the Telangana capital say the state government is allowing Covid-19 patients to slip through and mingle in open society. Its a great danger to the strategy to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, it said. (AA Photo)

Doctors: Telangana official Covid-19 figures are just lies

Doctors for Seva tell central officials that Telangana government's under-reporting strategy is flirting with disaster

2 May 2020 9:39 AM IST

This decision was taken in the state cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on November 21 at the committee hall of Legislative Assembly premise. (Photo: File | ANI)

Chhattisgarh borders to remain sealed until situation normalises:...

Baghel also said he preferred gradual relaxation of lockdown norms.

2 May 2020 9:37 AM IST

Health workers wearing protective suits screen resident of Kumbharwada during a house-to-house health survey, after detection of some COVID-19 positive cases, during the nationwide lockdown, at Dharavi in Mumbai. PTI photo

Covid-19 pandemic: Maharashtra records highest single day jump in...

Notably, although the cases are rising, the mortality rate in Maharashtra is dipping.

2 May 2020 9:32 AM IST

HANDS IN GLOVES: Ball-boys and girls do stretching exercises at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris. AP Photo

Covid-19 effect: No shaking, no sharing, no showering in tennis

ITF issued a set of guidelines which include arriving at a venue already dressed and leaving immediately after the...

2 May 2020 9:31 AM IST