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India has 1,000 coronavirus deaths but expert says no exponential rise
Published On: April 30, 2020 03:01 PM NPT By: Reuters
NEW DELHI, April 30: India has recorded its 1,000th novel coronavirus death, but the head of a government think-tank said on Wednesday that its 1.3 billion people, strained from weeks of lockdown, were not experiencing the feared exponential surge in infections.
Trump says China wants him to lose his bid for re-election
Published On: April 30, 2020 11:53 AM NPT By: Reuters
WASHINGTON, April 30: President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he believes China’s handling of the coronavirus is proof that Beijing “will do anything they can” to make him lose his re-election bid in November.
US economy shrank at 4.8% rate last quarter as virus struck
Published On: April 29, 2020 09:00 PM NPT By: Associated Press
WASHINGTON, April 29: The U.S. economy shrank at a 4.8% annual rate last quarter as the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the country and began triggering a recession that will end the longest expansion on record.
Making public transit safe next hurdle in easing lockdowns
Published On: April 29, 2020 08:00 PM NPT By: Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, April 29: In cities around the world, public transit systems are key to getting workers back on the job and restarting devastated economies, yet everything from trains and buses to ferries and bicycles will have to be re-imagined in the coronavirus era.
Construction site fire in South Korea kills at least 38
Published On: April 29, 2020 06:10 PM NPT By: Reuters
SEOUL, April 29: A fire at a construction site in South Korea killed at least 38 people and injured another 10 on Wednesday, fire authorities said.
It's a boy: PM Johnson and fiancée thrilled by birth of son
Published On: April 29, 2020 05:55 PM NPT By: Reuters
LONDON, April 29: Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s fiancée, Carrie Symonds, gave birth to a healthy baby boy at a London hospital on Wednesday, slightly earlier than had been expected.
It's a boy: British PM Johnson and fiancee 'thrilled' by birth of a son
Published On: April 29, 2020 03:48 PM NPT By: Reuters
LONDON, April 29: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s fiancee, Carrie Symonds, gave birth to a baby boy on Wednesday at a London hospital, slightly earlier than had been expected.
Bomb blast kills 40 people in Syrian town of Afrin, Turkey says
Published On: April 29, 2020 03:02 PM NPT By: Reuters
ANKARA, April 29: At least 40 civilians were killed, including 11 children, when a bomb detonated in the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Tuesday, the Turkish Defence Ministry said, blaming the attack on the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia.
U.S. coronavirus cases approach one million, one-third of global infections: Reuters tally
Published On: April 28, 2020 09:00 PM NPT By: Reuters
NEW YORK, April 28: U.S. cases of the novel coronavirus were approaching 1 million on Tuesday, having doubled in 18 days, and made up one-third of all infections in the world, according to a Reuters tally.
Coronavirus cases in India climb towards 30,000; Pakistan mosques a growing worry
Published On: April 28, 2020 08:05 PM NPT By: Reuters
NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD, April 28: India was nearing 30,000 coronavirus infections on Tuesday, second only to China in Asia, a steady rise that would make it difficult to lift a nearly six-week lockdown that ends this weekend, health officials and some government leaders said.
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