Five days after three doctors working in the Covid hospital of BPS Khanpur Medical College, Sonipat, were found positive of coronavirus, 11 junior doctors who were their contacts have been sent in 14-day quarantine.

"Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet. I want to work alongside others, both to amplify known ways and to explore new ways of fighting the devastating impact of climate change,' said Bezos who is worth $130 billion.

The COVID-19 spread has forced the UN body to postpone its flagship annual climate change conference which was scheduled to be held at Glasgow in United Kingdom (UK) in November. This crucial meet will now be held in 2021 -- the first year of the operationalisation of the the Paris Agreement.

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.

China reported one new case of coronavirus on Tuesday and no deaths, marking three weeks since it recorded a Covid-19 fatality. The National Health Commission said 395 people remained under treatment in the hospital, while 949 were under isolation and observation for suspected cases or after testing positive despite showing no symptoms.

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.

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.

The deal will make Vista the largest shareholder of Jio after Facebook (9.99%) and parent RIL (86.54%). With this, RIL has raised a total of Rs 60,596 crore ($7.9 billion), boosting its efforts to pare debt.

ICICI Bank on Saturday reported a 26 per cent rise in standalone net profit at Rs 1,221 crore for the quarter ended March 2020. The bank had posted a net profit of Rs 969 crore in the corresponding January-March period of 2018-19.

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.

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.

A 46-year-old migrant worker from Jharkhand, who decided to reach home by foot, collapsed and died after walking for 100kms on Thursday.

A 24-year-old woman, with her four-month-old son in arms, walked nearly 15km under the blazing sun in Bagalkot district on Thursday to seek police protection from her jail-returned husband, who threatened to kill them late Wednesday.

The coronavirus count touched 61 in Davanagere with 14 more testing positive for the virus on Friday. Five of them are children between 3 and 13 years.

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

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.

another report falsely claimed that the government was planning to cut allowances like LTA, leave encashment, medical, etc of central government employees.