ROME: Italy’s death toll from the novel coronavirus in March and April could be nearly 19,000 higher than the official figure of 32,000, the national social security agency said on Thursday (May 21). The Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale (INPS), the largest social security and welfare institute in Italy, said […]
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KOLKATA/DHAKA: The most powerful cyclone to strike eastern India and Bangladesh in over a decade killed at least 84 people, officials said, as rescue teams scoured devastated coastal villages, hampered by torn down power lines and flooding over large tracts of land. Mass evacuations organised by authorities before Cyclone Amphan […]
WASHINGTON, DC: US doctors and others in the scientific community are calling for the release of data that convinced health regulators to authorise emergency use of Gilead Sciences Inc’s antiviral drug remdesivir to treat COVID-19, so they can direct limited supplies on the right patients. Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc Chief Executive […]
REUTERS: International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Thomas Bach says the Tokyo Games would have to be scrapped if the event cannot be held next year due to the COVID-19 crisis. In March, the IOC and Japanese government took the unprecedented decision to delay the Games, which had been due to […]
File photo of US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper (left), President Donald Trump (centre) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Army General Mark Milley (right) at the White House on Oct 7, 2019. WASHINGTON, DC: President Donald Trump plans to withdraw the United States from the Open Skies Treaty, […]
REUTERS: AstraZeneca Plc said on Thursday (May 21) it had received the first agreements to supply at least 400 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with the University of Oxford. The British drugmaker said it has a total capacity sourced for one billion doses through 2020 and […]
Chelsea forward Olivier Giroud and goalkeeper Willy Caballero have signed one-year contract extensions until the end of the 2020-21 season, the Premier League club have said. Chelsea forward Olivier Giroud and goalkeeper Willy Caballero have signed one-year contract extensions until the end of the 2020-21 season, the Premier League club […]
Robin Uthappa, one of the bowlers delegated by India in their first ever taste of the bowl-out, said MS Dhoni did something that Pakistan keeper Kamran Akmal did not, thus making it very easy for the Indian bowlers. MS Dhoni takes an unusual position directly behind the stumps to his […]
The revised lockdown guidelines on Sunday gave more than a hundred athletes, who have been confined to their rooms at the SAI Centres in Patiala and Bangalore since March 25, a glimmer of hope. That has now gradually given way to anxiety. Initial confusion over the government’s order and then […]
55-year-old Anna, as he was lovingly called, a cook at the SAI Bengaluru campus for the last 23 years, was found to have tested positive for Covid-19 post-death. Anju Bobby George remembers him as a caring soul always ready to fill athletes’ hungry stomachs. “He was feeding us for so […]