Month: June 2020

176 Indian Citizens from Bahrain & Oman Complete Quarantine at Naval Base, Kochi

open view news desk NEW DELHI, JUNE 4: 176 Indians from Bahrain and Oman completed their mandated Quarantine period at Naval Base Kochi today. The residents of the Southern Naval Command Covid Care Centre (CCC) for the past two weeks would now travel back to various parts of […]

Prosecutors seek trial for Kardashian jewel heist suspects

Nearly four years after reality star Kim Kardashian was tied up at gunpoint in Paris and robbed of a small fortune in gems, a trial for 12 suspects appeared a step closer Thursday after prosecutors asked for the case to go to court. On a visit to the […]

Thousands in Hong Kong defy Tiananmen vigil ban

Thousands of Hong Kong protesters lit candles and chanted democracy slogans as they defied a ban Thursday against gathering to commemorate China’s deadly Tiananmen crackdown, with tensions seething in the financial hub over a planned new security law. Crowds streamed into one of the city’s main parks that […]

Breakthrough hopes in case of missing British girl Madeleine McCann

The family of missing British girl Madeleine McCann on Thursday called an international appeal about a new suspect in the case “significant”, raising hopes of a potential breakthrough in the long-running saga that has captured public attention for more than a decade. Madeleine, aged three, vanished from the […]

Syria’s Assad seeks to control economy, goes after cousin

BEIRUT — On a summer day last year, presidential guards drove out of the charity organization founded by Syria’s wealthiest businessman and a close cousin of President Bashar Assad, carting away boxes of documents and computers. At the same time, the charity’s director was being questioned at the […]

Pandemic hits poorest hardest as India, Pakistan cases jump

The United Nations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement are urging that governments and others unite in developing a “people’s vaccine” to protect everyone against the coronavirus. Their appeal came ahead of a vaccine summit in London organized by the Global Vaccine Alliance that is […]

Protests turn subdued after new charges in Floyd case

MINNEAPOLIS — Demonstrations in cities across the U.S. to condemn racism and police abuses remained large but turned notably more subdued on the eve of a Thursday memorial service for George Floyd that kicks off a series of events to mourn the man whose death empowered a national […]

India’s top bureaucrats hit by coronavirus as cases spike

NEW DELHI – A top Indian civilian defence official has tested positive for coronavirus and is in home quarantine, government officials said on Thursday, as the daily rise in infections hits a new high. India’s cases reached 216,919 after 9,304 new cases were reported over the previous day, […]

India’s urban COVID-19 outbreak is morphing into a rural health crisis

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI – Rural parts of India have begun to see a surge in novel coronavirus infections, as millions of migrant workers returning from big cities and industrial hubs bring the virus home with them, according to data collected from seven Indian states. Officials said the spike in […]

Dr. Harsh Vardhan reviews status and preparations for COVID-19 management with Lt. Governor & Health Minister of Delhi

“Delhi needs to ramp up testing with aggressive surveillance, contact tracing and stringent containment activities”  open view news desk NEW DELHI, JUNE 4: “As the number of cases and fatality rises in Delhi, it needs to ramp up testing coupled with aggressive surveillance, contact tracing and stringent containment […]

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