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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks the press at the State Department in Washington. (AFP)

Trump considering to throw out thousands of Chinese graduate students

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Chinese students "shouldn't be here in our schools spying."

29 May 2020 9:57 AM IST

A shopping mall official (unseen) uses a thermal scanner to check the temperature of shoppers before they enter at the Centaurus Mall after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Islamabad. (AFP)

Pakistan uses militant-tracking tech to hunt virus

Intelligence services are using geo-fencing and phone-monitoring systems that ordinarily are employed to hunt high-value...

28 May 2020 11:43 AM IST

Bill Gates. (AFP)

Bill Gates conspiracy theories viral in Africa

A Kenyan politician's false online post has added major fuel to the spread of misinformation regarding the American...

28 May 2020 9:55 AM IST

A pharmacy tech holds a bottle and a pill of Hydroxychloroquine. (AFP)

After WHO, France puts ban on hydroxychloroquine

Under the new French rules, the drug can be used only in clinical trials to test its efficacy against coronavirus

27 May 2020 3:42 PM IST

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South Korea examines first suspected cases of Covid-linked syndrome in...

The syndrome has raised fears that COVID-19, caused by the coronavirus, could pose a greater risk to children than had...

27 May 2020 3:30 PM IST

A woman (C) speaks on her phone on a bus before being taken to a quarantine facility after arriving from Mumbai. (AFP)

Mumbai returnee tag stigmatises guest workers

Villagers are scared that guest workers returned from places with high number of corona positives will spread the virus

27 May 2020 11:58 AM IST

People wearing face masks amid concerns of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus walk along a bridge across the Han river in Seoul. (AFP)

South Korea reports spike in coronavirus cases

More than 2 million students, including kindergarten students, were expected to return to school on Wednesday

27 May 2020 9:43 AM IST

Health personnel of a medical emergency response service carry Brazilian Eladio Lopes, 79, -infected with the new coronavirus- on a stretcher to be transferred on an ambulance boat from the community of Portel to a hospital in Breves, on Marajo island, Para state, Brazil. (AFP)

Brazil surpasses US in daily coronavirus death toll

Brazil has the second-worst outbreak in the world, with 374,898 cases, behind the U.S. with 1.637 million cases

26 May 2020 2:55 PM IST

TVS Motor implements pay cuts for employees. (PTI Photo)

TVS Motor cuts staff salaries by up to 20% as sales plummet

There will be 5 per cent salary reduction at the junior executive level and about 15 to 20 per cent at the senior...

26 May 2020 2:25 PM IST

A chemist holds a pack of hydroxychloroquine tablets in Mumbai, India. (AP)

WHO suspends testing hydroxychloroquine on virus patients

Hydroxycholoroquine has been touted by Donald Trump and many others as a possible treatment for COVID-19

26 May 2020 12:16 PM IST

Assam records a spike of 115 covid positive cases, Nagaland reports 3. (PTI Photo)

Assam records massive spike of 115 new covid cases, Nagaland reports 3...

Assam conducted higher number of tests despite having lesser number of positive cases than Kerala

26 May 2020 11:29 AM IST

Tea producers body estimates Rs 2,100 cr revenue loss in 3 months. (PTI Photo)

Tea producers' body estimates Rs 2,100 cr revenue loss in 3 months

The lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated the financial stress of the tea industry

26 May 2020 10:22 AM IST