Month: April 2020

Canada mass shooting erupted from argument, official says

TORONTO — Canada’s worst mass shooting erupted from an argument between the gunman and his girlfriend, who survived the attack, a police official said. The official confirmed to The Associated Press late Thursday that the weekend shooting rampage in Nova Scotia stemmed from a domestic dispute involving the […]

Immigrants, hard hit by economic fallout, adapt to new jobs

NEW YORK — Ulises García went from being a waiter to working at a laundromat. Yelitza Esteva used to do manicures and now delivers groceries. Maribel Torres swapped cleaning homes for sewing masks. The coronavirus pandemic has devastated sectors of the economy dominated by immigrant labor: Restaurants, hotels, […]

Coronavirus shakes the conceit of ‘American exceptionalism’

WASHINGTON — What if the real “invisible enemy” is the enemy from within — America’s very institutions? When the coronavirus pandemic came from distant lands to the United States, it was met with cascading failures and incompetencies by a system that exists to prepare, protect, prevent and cut […]

MHA clarifies Misplaced Apprehensions of Industry Associations regarding Legal liability on Company CEOs, if employees found COVID-19 positive

No Separate/Fresh Permissions required from Authorities for Industries already permitted to operate prior to 15.04.2020, in areas falling outside Containment Zones open view news desk NEW DELHI, APRIL 23: Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), on 15.04.2020, had issued an order to exempt certain activities under the consolidated revised guidelines to […]

Abducted J-K policeman set free

Srinagar, Apr 24:  Militants have set free a policeman abducted by them from his home in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said here on Friday. Constable Javaid Jabbar was set free by the militants, hours after his abduction late Thursday night, the officials said. The militants […]

Jaishankar, Pompeo talk over phone; discuss cooperation to contain COVID-19

Washington, Apr 23: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his American counterpart Mike Pompeo on Thursday spoke over phone and discussed bilateral and international cooperation to contain and mitigate the novel coronavirus. “Spoke with Indian Minister of External Affairs @DrSJaishankar today on positive steps that the United States and […]

At least 7 dead as storms hit Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana

MADILL, Okla. — Severe weather moved through the South on Thursday after killing at least seven people in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, including a worker at a factory hit by an apparent tornado, a man whose car was blown off the road and a man who went outside […]

Have cut transmission, minimised spread, increased COVID-19 doubling time during lockdown: Govt

New Delhi, Apr 23: The government said on Thursday that it has been able to “cut coronavirus transmission”, minimise its spread and increase the doubling time of COVID-19 cases in the country during the 30-day period of the nationwide lockdown. While asserting that the growth of coronavirus cases in […]

26 million have sought US jobless aid since virus hit

WASHINGTON — More than 4.4 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week as job cuts escalated across an economy that remains all but shut down, the government said Thursday. Roughly 26 million people have now filed for jobless aid in the five weeks since the coronavirus […]

U.S. House meets to pass $500 billion in coronavirus relief as unemployment soars

WASHINGTON – Hundreds of members of the U.S. House of Representatives gathered in Washington on Thursday to pass a $484 billion coronavirus relief bill, bringing the unprecedented total of funds approved for the crisis to nearly $3 trillion. The measure is expected to receive solid bipartisan support in […]

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