KARACHI – Pakistani authorities ordered on Friday four men, including a British militant, convicted of the 2002 murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, to be detained for three months despite a lower court’s ruling to overturn their convictions. The High Court in the province of Sindh on Thursday […]
NEW DELHI/COLOMBO – India will pull out of a three-week lockdown in phases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, as officials battle to contain the country’s biggest cluster of coronavirus infections in the capital, New Delhi. The shutdown, which has brought Asia’s third-largest economy to a shuddering […]
LONDON – Initial tests in mice of a potential COVID-19 vaccine delivered via a fingertip-sized patch have shown it can induce an immune response against the new coronavirus at levels that might prevent infection, U.S. scientists said on Thursday. Researchers around the world are working to develop potential […]
BEIJING/NEW YORK – Global cases of the new coronavirus have shot past 1 million with more than 53,000 fatalities, a Reuters tally showed on Friday, as death tolls kept soaring in the United States and western Europe while the world economy spiralled disastrously. Just in the previous day, […]
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI – Ravi Prasad Gupta, a worker at a pipe plant in Gujarat, for years proudly supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his promise to usher in “good days” for millions of impoverished labourers. But Modi on March 24 announced a three-week lockdown to fight the coronavirus, […]
open view news desk NEW DELHI, APRIL 03: My dear fellow citizens, Today marks 9 days of the nationwide lockdown against the Corona pandemic. The discipline and spirit of service you have displayed during this periodis unprecedented, and embodies the true meaning of both. Government, administration and the […]
open view news desk NEW DELHI, APRIL 03: The Ministry of Rural Development is releasing the lump sum amounts @ Rs. 500/- per woman to Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) accountholders (as per number of such accounts intimated by banks), for April 2020, and the same have been […]
PM gives the five-point mantra of ‘Sankalp, Sanyam, Sakaratmakta, Samman Sahyog’ to tackle COVID-19 Sportspersons have brought glory to the nation, now they have an important role to play in boosting morale of the nation and spreading positivity: PM Praising the leadership of PM, sportspersons pledge to spread […]
Srinagar, Apr 3: Security forces have apprehended four overground workers of Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit from Handwara and Sopore areas of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said here on Friday. A cordon and search operation was launched in Shalpora village in Handwara area of Kupwara district late on Thursday night following information […]
New Delhi, Apr 3: As the country battles a sudden surge in coronavirus cases, the government on Friday carried out a detailed review of the overall healthcare delivery system as well as situation arising out of the 21-day nation-wide lockdown, officials said. The review was conducted by a Group […]
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