Friday, April 17, 2020

Anganwadi workers to the aid of the elderly

37 lakh people benefit from service
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

Lockdown | Officers suspended for allowing temple car festival in Kalaburagi

Around 150 people gathered for the festival at Siddalingeshwara temple at Rawoor village on Thursday morning
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

Coronavirus India lockdown Day 24 updates | Over 13,300 cases reported as death toll touches 450

Worldwide, over two million cases cases have been reported and the overall death toll is nearly 1,40,000.
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

Myanmar to free almost 25,000 prisoners in New Year amnesty: president

President Win Myint said 24,896 people jailed across the country, including 87 foreigners, would be freed unconditionally to bring delights to the citizens of Myanmar and taking into consideration humanitarian concerns.
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

China's Wuhan revises up total coronavirus death toll by 1,290

Offcials admit that many cases were “mistakenly reported” or missed entirely.
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

U.S. provides nearly $5.9 million in health assistance to India on COVID-19

The amount is being used to help India hinder the spread of the disease by providing care for the affected, disseminating essential public health messages to communities and strengthen case-finding and surveillance, it said on Thursday.
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

Opposition meet demands ₹1 crore for kin of Tamil Nadu’s COVID-19 victims

The multi-party meeting, convened by DMK, also demanded pay hike to the government employees and medical professionals involved in combating the COVID-19 pandemic.
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatens martial law-like enforcement

Mr. Duterte, who took office in mid-2016, already had drawn concern about potential human rights violations for his bloody anti-drugs crackdown in which thousands of mostly poor drug suspects have been killed.
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

Morning digest: India pegs COVID-19 fatality rate at 3.3%, patients suffer as Mumbai runs out of beds in ICUs, and more

A select list of stories to read before you start your day
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

COVID-19: IMF approves $1.4 billion to Pakistan to meet BoP crisis

The IMF’s decision comes at the request of Pakistan, which faces an urgent balance of payment crisis.
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

KTR tours containment zones in Hyderabad

Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development K.T. Rama Rao, on Thursday, toured the containment zones in the city, and interacted with
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

Five horses die of starvation amid lockdown in Palghar district

Five horses used in carriages died of starvation during the COVID-19 lockdown in Palghar district, a report from the authorities said on Thursday.Ass
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

Submit database of migrants on May 4, HC tells collectors

The Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court has directed district collectors to prepare a database of all migrant workers stranded in their distric
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

Congressional legislation introduced to allow Americans to sue China

Introduced by Senator Tom Cotton in the Senate and Congressman Dan Crenshaw in House of Representatives, the legislation, if passed and signed into law, would amend the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act to create a narrow exception for damages caused by China’s handling of the outbreak
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

Will expose ‘conspiracy’ behind unrest, claims Sena

The Shiv Sena on Thursday said the Maharashtra government would expose the “conspiracy” behind the recent migrants’ unrest in Mumbai, and accused the
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

Trump urged to work with U.S. allies on COVID-19 probe, appoint high-level envoy

Led by Republican Senator Marco Rubio from Florida, the Senators also urged the President to appoint a high-level Envoy to lead international coordination efforts both for COVID-19 response and for related investigations.
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

China reports new coronavirus cases drop to 2-week low

China recorded 26 new cases of the coronavirus in the mainland on Thursday, down from 46 cases a day earlier, according to the National Health Commission.
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

Coronavirus | Backing Trump, U.S. Republicans call for WHO chief to resign

The U.S. President said the WHO had promoted China's “disinformation” about the coronavirus and been too lenient with Beijing.
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

Sacred Venezuelan stone back home after hiatus in Berlin

Artist Wolfgang Kraker von Schwarzenfeld took the stone in 1998, saying he had permission from Venezuela’s government at the time and only later learned that members of the nation’s Pemon community were upset.
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

Belagavi jumps to third placein number of positive cases

North Karnataka districts accounted for 28 of the 36 cases reported on Thursday
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

Introduce token system to help avoid crowding outside banks, says official

District in-charge Secretary N.S. Prasanna Kumar has directed the lead bank manger and bank officials to take initiatives to avoid crowding and ensure
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

Social distancing norms thrown to the wind at APMC Yard in Mangaluru

Wholesale traders indulging in retail business also, says City North MLA Y. Bharath Shetty
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News

Delhi riots: ‘25-30 arrests from north-east since lockdown’

Family members allege that policemen not letting them meet accused in jails
from The Hindu - News
Click Here for Full News