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Brazils outgoing Health Minister Nelson Teich gives a thumbs up before a news conference at the Health Ministry headquarters in Brasilia. (AP)

Brazil's health minister resigns after one month on the job

Bolsonaro had earlier fired Teich's predecessor, Mandetta, on April 16, after disagreements over efforts to contain the...

16 May 2020 9:09 AM IST

Hard to believe an eight-year-old developed shades fitted with IR...

The class 4 student is quoted talking like an experienced scientist, which beggars belief

15 May 2020 5:58 PM IST

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. (PTI Photo)

FM Nirmala Sitharaman's third tranche covers agriculture and allied...

Financing facility of Rs 1,00,000 crore will be provided for funding agriculture infrastructure projects at farm-gate...

15 May 2020 5:42 PM IST

SEBI extends deadline for stock brokers to submit reports till 30 June. (PTIPhoto)

SEBI extends deadline for stock brokers to submit reports till 30 June

This is the second instance when the regulator has extended the deadline for compliance

15 May 2020 3:59 PM IST

Moodys cuts outlook for Indian power sector amid coronavirus-induced stress. (PTI Photo)

Moody's outlook for Indian power sector to negative from stable on...

Power demand in April slumped by over one-third of the usual demand during the month as the nationwide lockdown

15 May 2020 3:40 PM IST

Children wash their hands at the Saint-Tronc Castelroc primary school in Marseille, southern France. (AP)

US gives doctors guidance on how to spot rare COVID-linked syndrome in...

The guidance follows several reports of the syndrome in France, Italy, Spain and Britain and more than 100 cases in the...

15 May 2020 3:23 PM IST

Chinas industrial output rose 3.9 percent in April from a year earlier. (AP Photo)

China's factory output posts first increase for 2020, but consumption...

After months of lockdowns, China is slowly reopening its economy as the coronavirus outbreak on the mainland has come...

15 May 2020 2:00 PM IST

Medical workers in protective suits carry the body of Ibrahim Hassan, 56, before he is buried in Mogadishu, Somalia.(AP)

Years of conflict leave Somalia ill-equipped to fight the virus

The official count of cases is now above 1,200, but no one really knows how many cases of COVID-19 it has so far

15 May 2020 1:57 PM IST

People have lunch at a restaurant along the shoreline as stage 1 of the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions begin in Sydney. (AP)

Australians emerge from coronavirus lockdown to beers and lattes

Country's second most populous state reported a total of 29 new cases on Friday, a bump up from the recent daily average...

15 May 2020 1:38 PM IST

Coronavirus could inflict up to $8.8 trillion losses in global economy, says ADB. (PTI Photo)

Coronavirus could inflict up to $8.8 trillion losses in global...

The impact on south Asian gross domestic product (GDP) will be to the tune of $142-218 billion

15 May 2020 12:55 PM IST

A health worker from an aid organization walks wearing a hazmat suit at the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh. (AP)

Coronavirus detected in Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh

Two people tests positive for Covid in one of the camps in Bangladesh that accommodates more than one million refugees

15 May 2020 11:28 AM IST

Nurses hold newborn babies wearing face shields, as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (AFP)

Lockdown delays these surrogate babies from reaching their mothers

With the lockdown in place, most parents have only seen their newborns through pictures and video calls with the clinic

15 May 2020 10:30 AM IST