Chandigarh Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday directed the Department of Industries and the District Industries Centres to provide all industrial units eligible to reopen with requisite approvals along with required curfew passes within 12 hours of applying. Amarinder also promised to raise the issue of central support forRead More

Cape Town One of the hard lessons the World Health Organisation learned during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was this: Other diseases can be forgotten and take a deadlier toll. The WHO is now warning that the battle against malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, where it already kills hundreds ofRead More

Washington The death toll due to the coronavirus pandemic in the US crossed the 50,000 mark on Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University. In the last 24 hours until Friday morning, as many as 3,176 people died from the coronavirus in the US, the university said. It is one ofRead More

New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched a unified e-GramSwaraj portal and mobile app, and Swamitva Scheme to mark the national Panchayati Raj Day before he addressed gram panchayats through video-conferencing. He also addressed sarpanches from various parts of the country and evinced interest in the implementation ofRead More

Mumbai/Ahmedabad Parts of India have recorded dramatic falls in mortality rates after a nationwide lockdown was imposed to fight the new coronavirus, suggesting there has not been an undetected surge in virus-related deaths. All over the world, mortality rates are being scrutinised to determine the true impact of the coronavirus,Read More

Chandigarh Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday said he had ordered a detailed audit of every COVID-19 death by experts to understand and check the high mortality rate in the state, and the government was also strengthening its pandemic containment measures, under the guidance of an expert team.Read More

New Delhi An association of 41 companies and firms from Punjab has moved the Supreme Court against a March 29 order of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) asking private establishments to pay full wages to workers during the COVID-19 lockdown. Ludhiana Hand Tools Association also challenged the validity ofRead More

Beijing Cash-rich China on Thursday announced an additional USD 30 million grant to the World Health Organization to support its global fight against the deadly coronavirus, days after Beijing expressed “serious concern” over President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze US’ funding for the UN health agency over its handling ofRead More

London People of Indian origin in the UK have emerged as the worst affected ethnic group from the coronavirus pandemic, according to an official data on COVID-19 deaths in hospitals across England. Figures released this week by the National Health Service (NHS) England show that of the 13,918 patients whoRead More

Sitapur A 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped by two youths in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur district on Wednesday and four others recorded the act, police said. All the six youths have been arrested, they said. The incident took place around 2.00 pm under Misrikh police station area in the district, theRead More