Day: May 1, 2020

Coronavirus shatters silver screen dreams for Bollywood

MUMBAI – India’s Hindi film industry, purveyor of song-and-dance spectacles to millions, will take at least two years to recover financially from the coronavirus pandemic, which is threatening big-ticket projects, putting at risk tens of thousands of jobs. That was the sombre assessment of about a dozen top […]

PM Modi holds a meeting to discuss ways to boost Defence & Aerospace Sector

open view news desk NEW DELHI, APRIL 30: PM Narendra Modi held a detailed meeting to deliberate the potential reforms to ensure a robust and self-reliant defence industry in India that caters to short and long term needs of the armed forces and initiatives to give a boost […]

Low Pressure area over south Andaman Sea & adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal

open view news desk NEW DELHI, MAY 1: According to the Cyclone Warning Division of the India Meteorological Department, a Low Pressure area has formed over south Andaman Sea and adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal in the morning hours of today, the 01st May 2020.Its intensification is expected […]

Lockdown: Maruti sells zero units in domestic market in April

New Delhi, May 1:  The country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Friday said it did not sell a single unit in the domestic market last month due to coronavirus-led nationwide lockdown. The company had zero sales in the domestic market in April 2020, MSI said in […]

COVID-19 toll rises to 1,147; cases 35,043

New Delhi, May 1: The death toll due to the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 1,147 with 72 more fatalities and the number of cases climbed to 35,043 in the country on Friday, the Union Health Ministry said The active COVID-19 cases stood at 25,007, while 8,888 people have […]

AP PHOTOS: Virus-era glimpses of a world without humans

Being human, the world of human beings is the one we tend to notice most. The crowds. The interplay of people. The buzz and bustle of what we call daily life. But sometimes, behind that daily life, another variety of daily life exists. Now it is starting to […]

A coronavirus drug seems to work. What’s next?

News that an experimental drug seems to be the first effective treatment for the new coronavirus has unleashed a flurry of interest – and a clamor to know how soon it might be available. Talk turned Thursday to how quickly the federal Food and Drug Administration might act […]

Biden expected to publicly address sexual assault allegation

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden on Friday was expected to give his first public comments on a sexual assault allegation that has roiled his presidential campaign. The presumptive Democratic nominee will appear on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to address the allegation by his former Senate staffer Tara Reade that he […]

Trump speculates that China released virus in lab ‘mistake’

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has speculated that China could have unleashed the coronavirus on the world due to some kind of horrible “mistake,” and his intelligence agencies said they are still examining a notion put forward by the president and aides that the pandemic may have resulted […]

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