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Some 300 leading academics urged governments to dismiss the centralised approach to an app they were backing, saying it risked undermining public trust. They said an approach being developed by Apple and Google, whose operating systems run most of the worlds smartphones, was more privacy friendly. (Photo | AP)

Germany backs Google and Apple's covid app, after privacy concerns...

Backing for a pan-European app that was to keep data on a central server was stopped over criticism from a nation...

26 April 2020 9:40 PM IST

Health workers collect details as they survey a neighborhood amid concerns over the spread of new coronavirus in New Delhi, India. AP Photo

State lockdown option is the need of the hour

The corona containment measures should ideally be conceived and coordinated by the Union government and implemented by...

26 April 2020 8:24 PM IST

Andy Murray with the first of his three Grand Slam trophies, the US Open he won in 2012. AFP Photo

Andy Murray will find it tough to win another Slam, says Greg Rusedski

The former British number one thinks Murray could win a Tour event but a Grand Slam win is going to be very difficult

26 April 2020 8:18 PM IST

President Donald Trump listens during a demonstration of ways NASA is helping to combat the coronavirus, in the Cabinet Room of the White House. AP Photo

The great distraction

Statistics reveal that none of the measures, other than locking ourselves down to keep the infection from spreading like...

26 April 2020 8:10 PM IST

A key worker hands back a swab to a medical worker at a drive-in testing facility for the novel coronavirus COVID-19, in east London. AFP Photo

UK paid a heavy price for being late on coronavirus response

While parts of India are now being opened up, very tentatively, in the UK there is confusion and debate on how long the...

26 April 2020 7:52 PM IST

JNU inspires Saif's next

The series is directed by Ali Abbas Zafar and doesn't have fixed title yet

26 April 2020 7:44 PM IST

A group of Chinese scientists published in the Lancet in January 2020 revealed that the first Covid-19 patient had no connection to Wuhans wet animal market, and neither did 13 of the first 41 confirmed cases. PTI Photo

Does China have a case to answer for coronavirus outbreak?

There is a considerable body of scientific opinion that believes that SARS-COV-2 actually escaped from the Wuhan...

26 April 2020 7:36 PM IST

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The show goes on

As COVID-19 closes schools and colleges, teachers and students brace for massive experiments in virtual classrooms

26 April 2020 7:18 PM IST

Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka

TRS govt failed to curb Covid: Bhatti

Both the Centre and the state government delayed action. By the time they woke up, virus had spread in all states in the...

26 April 2020 7:12 PM IST

Clash for credit

M.S. Dhoni and Gautam Gambhir's turbulent relationship takes centre stage, as the country celebrates the 9th anniversary...

26 April 2020 6:53 PM IST

Recipients of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2018 cricketer Virat Kohli and weightlifter Mirabai Chanu. PTI Photo

Covid-19 pandemic delays National Sports Awards process

Nominations for the awards are generally invited in April while the ceremony to confer them is held on August 29

26 April 2020 6:32 PM IST

Renowned Australian tennis coach Darren Cahill. DC File Photo

Tennis coach Darren Cahill rallies behind ATP/WTA merger idea

The former coach of Andre Agassi and Lleyton Hewitt said uniformity in rules and rankings will help all stakeholders

26 April 2020 6:12 PM IST