Telugu cinema actors like Nagarjuna Akkineni and Rakul Preet reacted to the news of the encounter, lauding the incident and thanking Telangana police.

Dulquer Salman stars as Kerala's most wanted criminal Sukumara Kurup in the film directed by Srinath Rajendran.

Dileep and the other accused in the case of sexual assault of an actress appeared before a special trial court on Monday, where the charges were read out to them.

The second season of the television reality show Bigg Boss Malayalam has 17 contestants from the film and TV industries.

Popular television anchor Meera Anil announced her engagement with Vishnu by uploading a video on YouTube.

Soon after the announcement was made, the makers started facing criticism for the title. Karnan is a classic film starring the legendary Sivaji Ganesan.

The first-look poster of the movie, titled The Priest, shows Mammootty's titular character donning a hooded cassock.

Soundarya Rajinikanth, who tied the knot with Vishagan Vanangamudi in February last year, celebrated her first Pongal after the wedding.

Telugu actor Nithiin is said to be getting married in April this year. There has been no official confirmation, but preparations have begun already.

Mysskin's next film Psycho, starring Udhayanidhi Stalin, Aditi Rao Hydari and Nithya Menen, is a tribute to legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock.

It is being reported that the actor will tie the knot with Shalini in Dubai, and possibly host a reception in Hyderabad later.

Nikhil can be seen sitting down on one knee kissing his lady love’s hands as Pallavi smiles lovingly in the Instagram photo they posted.

Singer and Bigg Boss Telugu Season 3 winner Rahul Sipligunj tried to intervene when a group of people were passing comments on his female friend in a pub.

Controversy erupted since it was speculated that Karnan is about the 1995 Kodiyankulam Maniyachi communal clash.

Seeing Arjun’s love for his spouse on the special day, fans poured their hearts out in the comments section.

South actress Samantha Akkineni says she had to be mindful of what she wore after her wedding because she was scared of the repercussions and the trolling.

Actor Nithiin shared the motion poster of his upcoming film Rang De, and also asked his fans not to celebrate his birthday due to the lockdown.

Posting the morphed images on Facebook, Premam actress Anupama Parameswaran slammed trolls for committing the cybercrime.

Chiranjeevi mentioned that while the cost of the losses caused because of the novel coronavirus can’t be estimated right now, the amount would run into hundreds of crores.

Vijay Deverakonda's video against fake news has been supported by many South actors, including Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu.

The civic body in Thane city has deployed marshals in slums and congested localities to ensure proper enforcement of the Covid-19 lockdown, an official said on Thursday.

Kalyan-Dombivli area in last 24 hours witnessed 27 new cases, which includes 21 people who work outside city limits and are working in essential services. The total number of cases have reached 280 in the twin city including three deaths.

New York, where nearly 20,000 people have died of COVID-19, is the epicenter of the US virus pandemic. Latinos and African-Americans are the principal victims, experiencing a mortality rate nearly double of that of white Americans.

The bill proposes to increase the scope of cases the CFIUS reviews and sends to the president prior to a financial transaction.

Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, who gave up the intelligence post when he became the prime minister-designate, assumes the premiership as Iraq faces unprecedented crises due to Covid-19.

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has continuously denied that India has entered the community transmission phase. To each question put to the government on community transmission, during government briefings, it has maintained that contact tracing is being carried out at state levels and the cases can only be classified as local and cluster transmissions.

As more and more South Koreans were released from treatment for Covid-19, authorities discovered some ostensibly cured patients were later testing positive again.

The Costa Atlantica now hosts one of Japan's biggest clusters of the coronavirus, which infected one-fourth of the more than 600 people then on board.

They found almost 200 recurrent genetic mutations of the new coronavirus - SARS-CoV-2 - that show how it may be evolving as it spreads in people.

A foreign services officer in Pakistan, who was posted in Ukraine, has been sacked after he was found guilty of sexually harassing a local worker.

Scientists said the structural makeup of SARS-CoV-2 suggests that it will behave differently in aqueous environments, compared to other viruses typically found in the intestine.

South Africa's parliament is closed and all its meetings are currently held by video conference calls as the country remains under strict lockdown restrictions to combat the spread of the coronavirus.

This emerging syndrome, which may occur days to weeks after a COVID-19 illness, reflects the surprising ways that this entirely new coronavirus infects and sickens its human hosts.

Officials defended their strategy of not imposing strict stay-at-home measures, saying Sweden's healthcare system still had spare capacity.

Migrant camps were "very prone" to spreading the disease, IOM Director General Antonio Vitorino told reporters in an online briefing.

The data bring the total claims filed since mid-March when the coronavirus pandemic forced businesses to close their doors to stop the virus's spread, to 33.5 million.

Nadia Whittome, the youngest Member of Parliament in the House of Commons representing her birthplace of Nottingham in central England since her win in the December 2019 General Election, is now running a drive to encourage care workers to speak out if they have safety concerns.

The cost of a return ticket to India as well as the mandatory 14-day quarantine period has left many Indian students in the UK to rethink their decision.

Overall, infections spreading from New York account for 60 to 65 per cent of the sequenced viruses across the country.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said that once these flights are completed, over 16,500 travellers will have been brought back from India on 64 special flights.

COVID-19 is spread through respiratory droplets or contact and the virus has also been detected in feces, saliva and urine.

The US needs it for all of the epidemiological work that needs to be done to protect Americans today and tomorrow, Pompeo asserted.

Attorney Douglas Wigdor is well known for his work on prominent cases related to sexual harassment and assault. He represented six women who accused Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood producer, of sexual misconduct.

The two white men were identified by police as Travis McMichael, 34, and his father Gregory McMichael, 64, who both live in Brunswick.

The father of the deceased filed a complaint with the police alleging that his 19-year-old daughter was killed by her husband for failing to serve him a hot meal for Sehri in the ongoing month of Ramzan.

World Red Cross day is observed on May 8 on the birth anniversary of Henry Dunant, who was the founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Her son was apparently fed up with having to constantly take care of her, Chinese state media reported. Rescuers said the woman was faintly calling for help as she was freed.

Satyender Dev Khanna and daughter Priya Khanna who worked at the Clara Maass Medical Center in New Jersey succumbed to Covid-19.