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US President Donald Trump. (AFP)

US reversal prevents UN vote on pandemic truce

The resoltuion had called for a 90-day "humanitarian pause" to allow governments to better address the pandemic among...

9 May 2020 2:00 PM IST

The U.S. unemployment rate hit 14.7% in April, the highest rate since the Great Depression, as 20.5 million jobs vanished in the worst monthly loss on record. The figures are stark evidence of the damage the coronavirus has done to a now-shattered economy. (AP)

US unemployment surges to a Depression-era level

US Labor Department says that 20.5 million jobs vanished in April in the worst monthly loss on record triggered by...

9 May 2020 11:08 AM IST

President Donald Trumps White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller (left) and Katie Miller. (AP)

Mike Pence's press secretary tests positive for coronavirus

This is the second person who works at the White House complex known to test positive for the virus this week

9 May 2020 9:58 AM IST

Representational Image. (AFP)

Coronavirus can be sexually transmitted: Study

21 institutes shortlisted for convalescent plasma therapy trials

9 May 2020 9:43 AM IST

US citizen wait to check in on a humanitarian flight towards Fort Lauderdale at Tocumen international airport in Panama City. (AFP)

US to temporarily ban immigrant visas including H-1B

Nearly 500,000 migrant workers are employed in the US in the H-1B status

9 May 2020 8:44 AM IST

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PIB)

To mask or not to mask?

World leaders are being closely scrutinised over their choice to wear a mask - or not

8 May 2020 4:00 PM IST

US President Donald Trump (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Photos by AFP)

Putin-Trump discuss coronavirus, arms control, oil over phone call

Both exchange greetings ahead of the 75th anniversary of Nazi defeat in WWII, emphasizing on the "histroic alliance"...

8 May 2020 2:49 PM IST

IndiGo reinstates pay cut for senior employees from May. (PTI Photo)

IndiGo to cut salaries of senior employees from May

IndiGo announced pay cuts for its senior employees on 19 March, it had rolled them back on 23 April in deference to...

8 May 2020 1:29 PM IST

A grandchild gives a kiss to his grand-father, suspected of being infected with the novel coronavirus, as he is evacuated to a hospital by the Protection Civile Paris Seine first aid workers, from his home in Paris. (AFP)

France prepares to lift lockdown, red zone Paris under watch

Prime minister Edouard Philippe opine that enough progress had been made in curbing the virus and supporting hospitals

8 May 2020 12:57 PM IST

A nurse takes the pulse of a patient in the influenza ward of the Walter Reed hospital in Washington. (AP)

World in 2020 resembles 1918 despite science advance

As in 1918's Spanish flu, people are again hearing hollow assurances at odds with the reality on ground

8 May 2020 11:45 AM IST

Stranded Australian citizens wait in a queue to board a flight back to their country. (AP)

Australia readies to ease COVID-19 restrictions

Australia has fewer than 800 people still sick with COVID-19, and new cases have dropped below 20 each day

8 May 2020 11:13 AM IST

Migrant workers peep inside a doctors clinic in Mumbai. (AFP)

Video shows patients sleeping next to covered bodies in Mumbai...

Civic officials say action will be taken against the responsible persons after investigative committee submit its report

8 May 2020 10:15 AM IST