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.

As China limps back to normalcy after COVID-19 outbreak, job prospects in the country seem to be truly bleak especially for the nine million students or so who are due to graduate in June.

Senior school students in 121 institutions were back in front of chalk boards and digital displays for the first time since their city -- the ground zero of the coronavirus pandemic -- shut down in January.

China on Wednesday dared US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to show "enormous evidence" he claimed to have to prove Covid-19 originated from a lab in Wuhan. "Pompeo cannot present any evidence because he does not have any," Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said. "This matter should be handled by scientists..instead of politicians," Hua said.

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.

The coronavirus outbreak exposed "shortcomings" in China's public healthcare system, a top health official admitted Saturday, saying that reforms are underway to improve the country's disease prevention and control mechanisms.

The country's largest lender, State Bank of India (SBI), is offering emergency loans to its customers amid coronavirus lockdown under its 'Emergency Loan Scheme'. SBI users can get up to Rs 5 lakh as loan within "45 minutes". The interest rate of the loan is at 10.5 per cent and EMIs will start after a period of six months.

Moody's Investors Service on Friday projected India's growth at zero per cent for the current fiscal and said the negative outlook on sovereign rating reflects increasing risks that GDP growth will remain significantly lower than in the past. The outlook also partly shows weaker policy effectiveness to address economic and institutional issues.

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

The Bombay high court on Friday directed the Maharashtra government to take an appropriate decision on sharing the transport costs of migrant workers returning homes.

Bombay high court on Friday sought a reply from the state on a public interest litigation by a Pune woman on permission to take pet dogs for their daily walks, while observing that walking them within housing society compounds for now, as permitted, was adequate for the moment.

Sajjansingh Dhurve from Pondi in Junawani of Mandal Khajeri cannot believe that his colleagues, with whom he was heading home, are no more.

Fewer non-essential shops opened shutters on Friday than the day before with the traders’ association insisting on total resumption of business after the lockdown exit.

(This story originally appeared in PuneMirror on May 9, 2020)

A Covid-19 patient from a village in Jagraon died of heart attack at Civil Hospital here on Saturday morning. The deceased was around 15 years old and had returned from Nanded Sahib pilgrimage.

A payload on board Chandrayaan-2’s orbiter, circling the Moon’s orbit at 100km, has measured solar flares between September 30 and October 1, which will help scientists better understand various processes on the Sun. Currently, the solar cycle is heading towards minima and the Sun has been extremely quiet for the past few months. Therefore, XSM could observe a series of small flares.

The question of why the virus has overwhelmed some places and left others relatively untouched is a puzzle that has spawned numerous theories and speculations but no definitive answers. That knowledge could have profound implications for how countries respond to the virus, for determining who is at risk and for knowing when it’s safe to go out again.

Scientists in the US say they are training dogs to identify COVID-19 in humans by sniffing out the disease in saliva and urine samples.

ಜಗತ್ತಿನ ಇತಿಹಾಸದಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಅರಿಯದಷ್ಟು ಭೀಕರ ಪರಿಸ್ಥಿತಿ ಇಂದು ಕೊರೋನಾ ವೈರಸ್ ಮೂಲಕ ಎದುರಾಗಿದೆ. ಇದು ಹರಡುವ ವೇಗ ಮತ್ತು ರೋಗಿಯನ್ನು ಸೋಂಕಿಗೊಳಗಾಗಿಸುವ ಕ್ಷಮತೆ ಹಾಗೂ ಇದುವರೆಗೂ ಇದಕ್ಕೆ ಔಷಧಿ ಇಲ್ಲದಿರುವ ಕಾರಣ ಜಗತ್ತೇ ಇಂದು ಸ್ತಭ್ದಗೊಂಡಿದೆ. ಆರೋಗ್ಯವಂತರಿಗೇ ಇದರ ಸೋಂಕು ಎದುರಾಗುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿರುವಾಗ ಗರ್ಭವತಿಯರು ಮತ್ತು ಬಾಣಂತಿಯರು ಇನ್ನೂ ಸುಲಭವಾಗಿ ಸೋಂಕಿಗೆ ತುತ್ತಾಗುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚೇ

ಕೋವಿಡ್-19 ಎನ್ನುವ ಮಹಾಮಾರಿಯು ಯಾವ ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪರಿಣಾಮ ಬೀರಿದೆ ಅಂದರೆ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಕೆಲಸ ಕಾರ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲೇ ಇರುವಂತೆ ಆಗಿದೆ. ಕೊರೋನಾ ವಾರಿಯರ್ಸ್ ಆಗಿರುವಂತಹ ವೈದ್ಯರು, ನರ್ಸ್ ಗಳು ಹಾಗೂ ಪೊಲೀಸರು ಮಾತ್ರ ಹೊರಗಡೆ ತಮ್ಮ ಕರ್ತವ್ಯ ನಿರ್ವಹಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಅದೇ ರೀತಿಯ ಬೇಸಗೆ ರಜೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮಜಾ ಮಾಡಬೇಕಾಗಿದ್ದ ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಕೂಡ ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲೇ ಕಾಲ ಕಳೆಯುವಂತಾಗಿದೆ.

ಕೋವಿಡ್-19 ಪಿಡುಗು ನಮ್ಮ ಜೀವನಶೈಲಿ, ಆರ್ಥಿಕತೆ ಮೇಲೆ ಹೇಗೆ ಹೊಡೆತ ನೀಡಿದೆ ಎಂಬುವುದು ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಎಲ್ಲಿರಿಗೂ ಅರಿವಾಗಿದೆ. ಈ ಮಹಾಪಿಡುಗು ಕುಟುಂಬ ಯೋಜನೆ ಮೇಲೆ ತುಂಬಾ ಪರಿಣಾಮ ಬೀರಲಿದೆ ಎಂದು ವರದಿಗಳು ಹೇಳುತ್ತಿವೆ. ಕೋವಿಡ್‌-19ನಿಂದಾಗಿ ಇಡೀ ವಿಶ್ವವೇ ಸ್ತಬ್ಧವಾಗಿದೆ. ಕಾಂಡೋಮ್‌, ಮತ್ತಿತರ ಗರ್ಭನಿರೋಧಕ ಸಾಧನ ಹಾಗೂ ಮಾತ್ರೆಗಳು ಕೊರತೆ ಉಂಟಾಗಿರುವುದರಿಂದ ಸುಮಾರು 9.5 ಮಿಲಿಯನ್ ಹೆಣ್ಣು

The man called Wang was diagnosed with paragonimiasis, a parasitic infection caused by food-borne parasites.

After Belgians were asked to eat more fried potatoes, dairy producers are now urging the French to consume more cheese.

While some appreciated this gesture and said that it would help boost morale, others felt that this is waste of resources which could have been utilised for something much more important.

The AI software is loaded into the surveillance systems of a retailer which would do the calculations and give out alarms and also worker productivity results.

Ashok Kumar has also asked a few professors to conduct a research on Ramayana, Mahabharat and Chanakya period to evaluate what kind of world existed in those years.

In the video, the girl, Horyaowon Pheirei from Kachai Village in Manipur’s Ukhrul District, is seen mesmerising the audience with Young‘s ‘Heart of Gold’ while playing a guitar.

The Ghana pallbearers meme recently became popular during the coronavirus pandemic.