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Arunachal Pradesh recorded its first COVID-19 fatality . (AFP Photo)

Arunachal Pradesh reports first COVID-19 death

The 43-year-old woman succumbed to the disease was suffering from chronic kidney disease and had returned from Delhi on...

25 Jun 2020 2:00 PM IST

People cross a traffic intersection in the central business district of Sydney. (AFP)

Australia reports biggest daily rise in two months

Family get-togethers might have played a big role in the surge as it comes just weeks after Australia began easing...

25 Jun 2020 11:36 AM IST

Diesel price in the national capital crossed the Rs 80 per litre-mark for the first time ever on Thursday. (PTI Photo)

Fuel prices hiked for 19th day, diesel remains higher than petrol in...

In 19 straight days, diesel price has gone up by Rs 10.63 per litre. Petrol price hiked on 18 occasions and now totals...

25 Jun 2020 11:06 AM IST

People cross the border between France and Spain at Behobie, southwestern France. (AP)

Americans not allowed into 30+ European countries

As Europe reopens its borders, American visitors will not be welcome owing to surging virus numbers in USA and Trump's...

25 Jun 2020 10:39 AM IST

$People wait for their testing at a \walk-in\ and \drive-through\ coronavirus testing site in Miami Beach, Florida on June 24, 2020. (AFP)$ World

Infections spike among youngsters as US reopens

A disturbing generational shift can be observed in US's coronavirus surge, but it poses danger to older people who cross...

25 Jun 2020 9:43 AM IST

Palestinians cross a bridge at Qalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem. (AP)

Israel, Palestinians tighten restrictions as coronavirus reemerges

The Palestinian Authority put the West Bank city of Hebron on lockdown as well

24 Jun 2020 3:37 PM IST

Pedestrians wearing face masks cross the street in the Ginza area in Tokyo. (AFP)

Japan struggles to find patients to enroll in clinical trials

Slowing new infections has led to a shortage of patients to enroll in trials, which are underway for more than a dozen...

24 Jun 2020 12:17 PM IST

Diesel price has surpassed the petrol as fuel rate hiked for the 18th day in a row. (PTI Photo)

Diesel now costlier than petrol in Delhi, fuel prices hiked for 18th...

In the 18-day period, petrol price increased by a cumulative Rs 9.41 per litre in the national capital, and diesel by Rs...

24 Jun 2020 11:38 AM IST

Children of stranded migrant workers wait to board a special train to Bihar state from MGR central railway station after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Chennai. (AFP)

COVID-19 impact may kill 8 lakh kids in South Asia: Unicef

The bulk of these would occur in India and Pakistan, although Bangladesh and Afghanistan will also be affected, a recent...

24 Jun 2020 11:24 AM IST

A rural village in the Moutse Valley, 160 kms (100 miles) north east of Johannesburg, South Africa, near the clinic where the Ndlovu Youth Choir waits to be processed for Covid-19 testing. (AP)

Worst of COVID-19 is yet to come in South Africa: Top scientist

The infections and deaths in the country have doubled in the past fortnight after lockdown introduced three months ago...

24 Jun 2020 9:46 AM IST

Workers in full protective gear transfer the body of a COVID-19 victim to the Azcapotzalco crematorium in Mexico City. (AP)

Latin America and Caribbean pass 100,000 COVID-19 deaths

More than half of these deaths are in Brazil, while it also has the second-highest COVID-19 death toll in the world,...

24 Jun 2020 8:57 AM IST

Gilead Sciences will soon start clinical trials for inhaled formulation of its anti-viral drug remdesivir. (ANI Photo)

Gilead Sciences to start trials of inhaled version of remdesivir

The FDA granted remdesivir an emergency use authorisation for the treatment of hospitalised patients with severe...

23 Jun 2020 3:47 PM IST