On 5 May, Bharath Gupta, a district collector in southern India, learnt that the sprawling Koyambedu market in Chennai city was being temporarily closed. The reason: several vendors and labourers at the market had tested positive for coronavirus, and were being linked to a spate of cases in Chennai and […]
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China is drawing up ambitious plans to test the entire population of Wuhan, the city where the Covid-19 pandemic began. The announcement came after the emergence of six new coronavirus cases in the city – the first ones since early April. The authorities had originally promised to test all 11 […]
Rory McIlroy has criticised US President Donald Trump for his handling of the coronavirus crisis. The Northern Ireland golfer said the president was trying to “politicise” the pandemic, which has led to more than 86,000 deaths in America. McIlroy was criticised for playing golf with Trump at his International Golf […]
Premier League players have come under “unfair criticism” during the coronavirus pandemic, says England captain Harry Kane. Harry Kane has scored 11 Premier League goals during the 2019-20 season Last month health secretary Matt Hancock said players should “take a pay cut and play their part”. “We’ve shown we’re […]
Four-time Tour winner Chris Froome has also won the Vuelta a Espana twice and the Giro d’Italia Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome has returned to outdoor training following reports he could leave his Ineos team this season. The 34-year-old tweeted on Thursday he was training again on […]
The workers who lost their employment due to the lockdown have decided to further brave the unending journey to their hometown Malda district in West Bengal, which is around 950 km from Lucknow. Twenty-three migrant workers who started from Noida on foot have walked over 400 km in the past […]
Sources said youngest daughter Roshni Kapoor said in her statement to the ED that she was just 10 years old when Morgan Credit India Private Limited (MCPL) and Yes Capital India Private Limited (YCPL) were set up in 2003-2004. Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor’s daughters have told Enforcement Directorate that […]
Germany’s economy shrank by 2.2% in the first three months of this year as the coronavirus pandemic pushed it into recession, official figures indicate. It was the biggest quarterly fall since 2009, when the country was engulfed in the global financial crisis. The figures from the Federal Statistics Office come […]
The US has announced new export controls aimed at limiting Chinese technology giant Huawei’s access to semiconductor technology. The new rule bars semiconductor-makers that use US technology and software in chip design from shipping to Huawei without US government permission. It is the latest US action to target Huawei, which […]
Facebook is teaming up with telecoms companies to build a 37,000km (23,000-mile) undersea cable to supply faster internet to 16 countries in Africa. Its length – almost equal to the circumference of the Earth – will make it one of the longest, it said. It is part of a long-running […]