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

The traditional Tamil wedding of Mahat and Prachi was attended by their close friends and family members.

Kamal Haasan was summoned by the Chennai police on March 3 in connection with the accident at the shooting spot of Indian 2, which killed 3 people and injured 9.

Organisers call the project 'Serres Séparées' (Separate Greenhouses) because they say it sounds better in French.

“As I watch the numbers, it’s like OK, are we going to make it back by the end of May?" Egert asked. "Is it going to be the first of June? Is it going to be mid-June?”

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

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.

The IMF on Wednesday approved a disbursement to Nepal of about USD 214 million to help the Himalayan nation cover the urgent balance of payments and fiscal needs stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The United Nations estimates that the life expectancy of indigenous people can be up to 20 years lower than that of their counterparts.

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.

India has objected to the CPEC — a planned network of roads, railways and energy projects linking China's Xinjiang province with Pakistan's Gwadar Port — as it is being laid through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

London's Pakistani-origin mayor fears it's not possible to understand the full extent of this disparity as, unlike in Scotland, ethnicity is not recorded on death certificates in England.

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.

The Islamic republic has battled to contain the Middle East's deadliest outbreak of the COVID-19 illness since reporting its first cases in mid-February.

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

When taking into account age in the analysis, black males were found 4.2 times more likely to die from a COVID-19-related death and black females 4.3 times more likely than white ethnicity males and females.

The kingdom had previously said such gatherings were prohibited and said on Thursday that those breaching the rules would be punished by law.

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.

The decision by close Trump ally Attorney General Bill Barr effectively reversed 18 months of work by the department and FBI under Barr's predecessors.

Last week, US President Trump threatened new tariffs against China after claiming there was evidence linking Covid-19 to a top-security lab in Wuhan.

US officials say fewer illegal immigrants are trying to enter the country from Mexico amid new enforcement rules imposed in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan says agents are encountering about half the number of migrants along the southwest border than in the month before President Donald Trump authorized the rapid expulsion of migrants under a March 21 public health order.

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

Alejandra has not heard anything from the state -- though she has gotten a fundraising email from Republican Senator Rick Scott, who set up the current unemployment system during his tenure as governor.

The World Thalassaemia Day 2020 theme is '’the dawning of a new era for thalassaemia: Time for a global effort to make novel therapies accessible and affordable to patients'.

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

Controversial Pakistani cleric Mufti Abdul Qavi made the comments in an interview with an online portal when he was asked to respond to some fatwa allegedly issued by clerics in Saudi Arabia that beverages containing 40 per cent alcohol or less are halal (permissible).

In the third phase of its reopening plan, Denmark will also increase the maximum number of people allowed to meet in public to between 30 and 50, up from a 10-person limit.

As a consensus has emerged that masks, even homemade ones, do help -- though levels of protection vary -- political leaders have had to adjust their messaging.

The spacecraft -- which was launched Tuesday -- arrived safely at a predetermined site, the China Manned Space Agency said, after a hitch in an earlier part of the key test.

Countries like France, Germany and Britain have urged greater transparency from China over its handling of coronavirus, while the US and Australia have called for international inquiry.

A shallow 4.6 magnitude quake hit near the city of Damavand, about 55 kilometres east of Tehran.

Lombardy region, which has recorded more than 80,000 infections, is the epicentre of Italy's outbreak, one of the worst in Europe in terms of deaths and infections.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said the parole would apply to low-risk inmates who have passed their minimum detention period.

Senator Manka Dhingra is an Indian-American attorney and the first Sikh elected to any state legislature in the United States.

The job loss according to the US Labor Department destroyed nearly all the positions created in the prior decade

As many as 44 million of the continent's 1.3 billion people could be infected during the same period, the UN health agency estimated, based on its prediction model of 47 African countries.

The action on Thursday was a stunning reversal for one of the signature cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller. It comes even though prosecutors for the past three years have maintained that Flynn lied to the FBI in a January 2017 interview about his conversations with the Russian ambassador.

The tests the lab sends out use the nuclear-derived RT-PCR technology, which is now common for new coronavirus detection and can give results within hours.

Texas is among a long list of states that have been gradually allowing business to reopen despite failing to reach the guidelines spelled out by the White House last month.

Almost across the board, sectors reported precipitous drops in overall employment in April, even though some major players - from online sales to grocery shopping and pharmacies - have seen surges in demand.

On Thursday, White House officials confirmed that a member of the military serving as one of President Donald Trump's valets tested positive for the coronavirus.

The annual meeting between Indus Commissioners was postponed after New Delhi proposed deferment of consultations due to the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown.

The text, under negotiation since March, called for a worldwide cessation of hostilities in conflict zones so governments can address the pandemic.

The committee's lawyers have until May 18 to file their response to the Justice Department's request to block the materials being immediately handed over, Roberts' brief order said.

Luke Alexander Denman, 34, and Airan Berry, 41, were among 17 people captured by the Venezuelan military.

US President Donald Trump, critical of China's early handling of the coronavirus outbreak, said on Friday that he was "very torn" about whether to end the trade deal.

Pompeo will discuss U.S. and Israeli efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as regional security issues related to Iran's malign influence, spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement.

Taiwan, which is not a member of the United Nations, has been excluded from the WHO, which is a UN agency, due to objections from China.