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Wuhan: China's Wuhan, where the first COVID-19 case was detected, has ordered for a ban on eating and hunting of wild animals as the deadly viral infection has started reappearing...

Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday recorded 1,06,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases from across the world. This is the highest single-day count so far since the outbreak began, the...

Odisha: The first death due to cyclone Amphan has been reported in Bangladesh when a Red Crescent volunteer drowned on Wednesday as a boat capsized while evacuating villagers in the...

Having shown the door to 3,700 staffers on Zoom last week, Uber is all set to lay off another 3,000 jobs and close 45 of its offices globally. This is...

News Delhi: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday announced the new members of its Executive Board and India is one among the 11 nations. The list includes Botswana, Colombia,...

US President Donald Trump on May 16 announced that he would be donating 200 ventilators to India to fight the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. However, now rumour mills are working overtime...

Washington: US President Donald Trump has honoured a 10-year-old Indo-American girl, Sravya Annapareddy, for being benevolent and spreading goodwill during the coronavirus crisis. Sravya and two other girl scouts from Maryland,...

Beijing: Researchers in China’s Peking University have created a drug that they believe will cure coronavirus without a vaccine. According to the researchers, the drug uses neutralising antibodies produced by...

Washington: Amid the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump has warned of permanently freezing US funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) if it fails to undertake substantive steps for improvements...

Beijing: China, under pressure from the USA and several other countries for their role in the novel coronavirus pandemic which started in Wuhan, tried to soothe sentiments on Monday. Chinese...