BANGKOK: Thailand is preparing to reopen department stores and various business venues nationwide from Sunday (May 17) as the COVID-19 situation in the country continues to improve, according to the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA). CCSA spokesperson Dr Thaweesilp Wisanuyothin said on Friday that further relaxation of the lockdown […]
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When some Indian cities eased the grinding lockdown last week to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, long queues were seen outside liquor shops across the country. In cities like Mumbai, a Covid-19 hotspot, booze-loving people made a mockery of social distancing rules, prompting the government to shut the […]
President Donald Trump called on governors across the nation Wednesday to work to reopen schools that were closed because of the coronavirus, pointedly taking issue with Dr Anthony Fauci’s caution against moving too quickly in sending students back to class. US President Donald Trump President Donald Trump called on […]
COX’S BAZAR, May 13 — Roughly 10 people were injured as a fire tore through a Rohingya refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh destroying at least 330 shanties, officials said yesterday. Local firefighter official Emdadul Haq said the 330 rough buildings, including homes and shops, in the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp […]
The Chinese city of Wuhan is drawing up plans to test its entire population of 11 million people for Covid-19, state media report. The plan appears to be in its early stages, with all districts in Wuhan told to submit details as to how testing could be done within 10 […]
Australian police have arrested a 49-year-old man over the decades-old murder of a gay US student in Sydney. The body of Scott Johnson, 27, was found at the bottom of beach cliffs in 1988. Police at the time ruled it a suicide. However, later inquiries concluded he had been killed […]
Four bombs, one placed under a garbage bin and the other three by the roadside, went off in northern Kabul on Monday, wounding four civilians, including a 12-year-old girl, Afghan officials said. Four bombs, one placed under a garbage bin and the other three by the roadside, went off in […]
At least 13 people have been killed by a massive gas leak at a chemical plant in southern India, with hundreds of others taken to hospital. Hundreds have taken ill after the gas leak at a polymer factory The leak from the LG Polymers plant in the city of Visakhapatnam […]
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh paid rich tributes to the soldiers and security personnel killed in the encounter. Srinagar: Two senior army officers – a colonel and a major- were among the five security personnel killed in action during an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, which began on Saturday […]
WEST PALM BEACH: President Donald Trump wound up his vacation at his Florida resort yesterday, isolated, angry and with his power slipping away. Two months after losing the US presidential election to Joe Biden, the 74-year-old Trump is still refusing to admit his defeat. He spent the past eight days […]