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Britain to quarantine incoming travellers for 14-days




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UK plans 14-day compulsory quarantine for all airport arrivals

The UK is planning to bring in compulsory 14-day quarantine for all travellers arriving in the country from any part of the world, except the Republic of Ireland, as part of measures to track the spread of coronavirus, according to media reports.




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Music Band 'When Chai Met Toast' is here with their first Malayalam single

Music Band 'When Chai Met Toast' is here with their first Malayalam single





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Midnight Family - Official Trailer

Midnight Family - Official Trailer





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Code 8 - Official Trailer

Code 8 - Official Trailer





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Trauma Center - Official Trailer

Trauma Center - Official Trailer





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The Painter and the Thief - Official Trailer

The Painter and the Thief - Official Trailer





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Malaika Arora looks like a breath of fresh air in this morning selfie

Malaika Arora looks like a breath of fresh air in this morning selfie





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Hyundai Aura first look

Hyundai Aura first look





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Gemopai Astrid Lite electric scooter review

Gemopai Astrid Lite electric scooter review





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Hyundai Aura: First drive

Hyundai Aura: First drive





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Kia Sonet concept showcased, to rival Hyundai Venue, Tata Nexon on launch

Kia Sonet concept showcased, to rival Hyundai Venue, Tata Nexon on launch





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First look: Volkswagen Taigun, Tiguan Allspace, T-Roc

First look: Volkswagen Taigun, Tiguan Allspace, T-Roc





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Auto Expo 2020: MG Motors unveils Gloster SUV, aims to sell 5,000-6,000 units annually

Auto Expo 2020: MG Motors unveils Gloster SUV, aims to sell 5,000-6,000 units annually





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Trump valet has coronavirus; president again tests negative




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Noida: 60-year-old found to have Covid dies of lung failure

The district recorded its first Covid-19 death after a 60-year-old man passed away on Friday. With 12 fresh cases, including the death, the district’s total positive cases now stands at 214.




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AI flight crew should stay back in Delhi: Noida police

The ‘stay back in Delhi’ controversy is not ending with doctors.




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TN raises retirement age of staff to 59, puts off Rs 5,000 crore payment

Call it Covid-19 effect, a cash-strapped TN government on Thursday increased the retirement age of its staff from 58 years to 59 years to defer an outgo of Rs 5,000 crore towards retirement benefits for the current fiscal.




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Spl train with 1,140 guest workers leave for Bihar




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Drunk driving claims 1st life during lockdown




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In Nilgiris, norms relaxed in four containment zones




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First train with 1,140 guest workers leaves for Bihar

The first special train, carrying as many as 1,140 guest workers stranded in the district, left for Bihar from the Coimbatore Railway Junction on Friday. It is expected to reach Saharsa district on Sunday.




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Airlander 10: Flying won't be the same again

The Airlander 10 is all set to be officially unveiled and promises to change the aviation industry around the world.




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Thai businessman convicted of selling fake bomb detectors

Many millions of dollars of the devices were sold to the Thai army and other security forces around the world. A court in Thailand has convicted a local businessman of fraud for selling fake bomb detectors to the Thai government, five years after a court in the United Kingdom sentenced the British head of the company that supplied them to seven years in prison in a scandal that was worldwide in scale




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Gurugram industries open but face manpower, supply chain problems

Industrial operations in Gurugram are yet to gather steam. The conditional green signal to resume operations was seen as a much-needed push to the economy. But those trying to get things back up and running realised it will be a challenge. Because the lockdown siloed cities and states. And businesses do not work in silos.




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11 more areas sealed, Gurugram has 32 containment zones now

Just three days after its last order notifying containment zones, the district administration on Friday added 11 new containment zones in the Gurugram block. Most are in old Gurugram. The district now has 32 containment zones.




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Shramik special train ferries 1,316 migrants from Ambala to Bihar




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Mumbai gets lion’s share of govt’s pollution fund

Mumbai is set to get the highest grant of Rs 488 crore from the Centre’s Rs 4,400 crore fund which is earmarked exclusively for cities with more than one million population in states to improve air quality during 2020-21. Delhi may miss this assistance despite figuring among the most polluted cities in the country as the fund would only be meant for ‘million plus’ population cities in states.




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Africa’s rare mountain gorillas also at virus risk

As the coronavirus infects more people around the world, Congo’s Virunga National Park, home to about a third of the world’s mountain gorillas, is barring visitors until June 1, citing “advice from scientific experts indicating that primates, including mountain gorillas, are likely susceptible to complications arising from the Covid-19 virus”.




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Thailand's tourist drought leaves space for shy sea mammal

Drone video footage released by the department of national parks shows a 30-strong herd of dugongs on Wednesday off Libong island in Trang province. They were feeding on sea grass and occasionally surfaced to breathe.




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Climate advisers show Britain path to green recovery

Britain should use economic stimulus measures to speed a shift away from fossil fuels and take advantage of low oil prices to raise revenues from carbon taxes without hurting consumers, state-appointed climate advisers said on Wednesday. Their proposals reinforce global pressure on governments to consider the environment as they pour money into their economies at levels unseen since World War Two to counter the impact of coronavirus lockdowns which threaten millions of jobs.




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Shramik spl train from Guj brings 1,235 migrants




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BHU lab functional again, 206 Covid-19 samples sent




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Super spreader trader sent to jail from hospital




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Covid-19: Global backlash builds against China over coronavirus

Australia has called for an inquiry into the origin of the coronavirus. Germany and Britain are hesitating anew about inviting in Chinese tech giant Huawei. President Trump has blamed China for the contagion and is seeking to punish it. Some govts want to sue Beijing. Across the globe, a backlash is building against China for its initial mishandling of the crisis.




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China's new large rocket makes maiden flight




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President Xi warns against complacency as China downgrades Covid-19 risk levels in all regions




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Covid-19: North Korea's Kim praises Xi Jinping for outbreak gains

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un sent a personal message to Chinese President Xi Jinping praising what he described as China's success in getting its coronavirus epidemic under control. The report by North Korea's state media followed an assessment by South Korea's spy agency that the pandemic is hurting the North's economy.




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China says Taiwan will fail in bid to attend key WHO meeting

Taiwan will fail in its bid to take part in a key meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) as its efforts are not based on concern for the health of Taiwan's people but are "political manipulation", China said on Friday.




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China smog returns after pandemic cleared the air




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Pay 3 months salary dues, Air India pilots say

Air India crew members, widely hailed as corona warriors for operating rescue flights during the Covid pandemic, are reaching a “breaking point” with their salaries due for the last three months now. As they embark on the Vande Bharat Mission, AI pilots have told aviation minister H S Puri that only “lip service” is being done for the airline.




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By air & sea, India’s evacuation op picks up pace

The Vande Bharat Mission gained momentum, with two flights — one from Singapore and another from Riyadh — landing in Delhi and Kairapur airport in Kerala. The Operation Samudra Setu by the Indian Navy to evacuate Indians stranded abroad using naval ships kicked off from the Maldives on Friday. ​​The ship of the Eastern Naval Command is scheduled to reach Kochi by Sunday.




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Rajan clears the air on how to fund stimulus

Many have argued that while India’s lockdown has been the harshest, its stimulus package is one of the smallest — so far. To fund bigger public spending programme, the govt can either ask the RBI to print more money or raise money through borrowing. Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has explained how the two paths work and why ‘monetisation’ is a good option.




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Loan defaulters flee, SBI complains after 4 yrs

Three promoters of Ram Dev International, recently booked by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for allegedly cheating a consortium of six banks to the tune of Rs 411 crore, have already fled the country before the State Bank of India (SBI) reached the agency with the complaint, officials said on Saturday.




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'45% of college-educated jihadis are engineers, and it’s because of 3 traits'

Anecdotally, it is often said that engineers tend to lean rightwards in their politics. In their new book, Engineers of Jihad, sociologist Diego Gambetta and political scientist Steffen Hertog back up that gut sense with data. They find that Islamist radicalism and other far-right movements are dominated by engineers, doctors and those with tech backgrounds, while left-wing movements draw people from the humanities and social sciences. They tell TOI why this may be the case




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SA Aiyar: Freedom from triple talaq: Goa shows the way




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SA Aiyar: State should foot bill for maternity, paternity leave




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'AI can help doctors fight cancer, but it’s not meant to replace them'




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'RBI governors should keep shut on matters outside their domain'




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Jhappis in jail: This NGO unites inmates with their children