Coronavirus update: No salutes or weapons for Queen’s 94th birthday
Updated April 22, 2020 04:43:11 As the Queen celebrates a subdued 94th birthday, UK Government figures reveal more than 1.7…
Samsung Goals to Make 600MP Video Camera Sensor That Beats the Human Eye
Samsung unveiled the world’s first 108-megapixel smartphone camera sensor back in August 2019, but that sensor is only a taste…
Lowest costs ever: brand-new 2020 MacBook Air drops to $939, voucher offers on every design
Exclusive By Christine McKee Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 09:24 am PT (12:24 pm ET) Apple's brand-new 2020 MacBook Air is…
Indian government, Google, US Senate and 10 others who have issued ‘security advisory’ for Zoom video-conferencing app
With 200 million-plus users worldwide, Zoom video-conferencing app has surely emerged as one of the biggest success stories of the…
OnePlus 8 Evaluation: 5G eliminated the value flagship
Smartphone prices have been skyrocketing for a few years now, and for the longest time, OnePlus was the exception to…
2 Congress rebels discover a place in Madhya Pradesh Cabinet
Madhya Pradesh Governor Lalji Tandon along with Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Cabinet Ministers Meena Singh (left), Govind Singh…
Coronavirus | Huge spike in cases likely in Mumbai, says Central panel
A five-member Central team has projected that the number of COVID-19 cases in Mumbai will touch an estimated 42,604 by…
Coronavirus | CBDT sticks with budget’s tax target of ₹13.2 lakh crore
Even as the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown to combat it has brought the economy to a near standstill, the…
Inter-Ministerial Central Team waits as Centre-West Bengal take on
Almost 30 hours after an Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT) landed in Kolkata, the West Bengal government facilitated the visit of…
Withered roses litter Karnataka fields
Less than six months ago, in November 2019, around 1.45 tonnes of marigold flowers grown on the outskirts of Bengaluru…
Withdraw case versus The Hindu reporter: Editors Guild of India
Mere social media posts of factual pictures can’t attract the toughest anti-terror laws passed for hardened terrorists. The Editors Guild…
Coronavirus | ICMR asks States to stop using rapid antibody tests for next 2 days
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has directed the States not to use the COVID-19 rapid testing kits for…
Knight mode: Heather Knight on T20 World Cup, women’s cricket and The Hundred
The England captain joins Alan Gardner and Valkerie Baynes to talk life on lock down and future challenges. Download »Archive…
COVID-19 crisis has made us more thoughtful, says Virat Kohli
David Warner shaving his headThe explosive Australian batsman, like billions around the world has been confined to his home due…
1.24 crore corona warriors available in India, says Centre
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday said that a portal — covidwarriors.gov.in — has been created as a master database…
Covid-19 lockdown: Policeman made to do 50 sit-ups for stopping farming officer’s lorry in Bihar
A screen grab of the video that went viral on social media.PATNA: In yet another case of frontline Covid-19 warriors…
Payment of minimum wages to migrant workers: SC leaves decision to Centre
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would not get into budgetary or financial domain of the Union…
ICMR asks states not to use rapid test kits for 2 days
NEW DELHI: Amid complaints about faulty rapid test kits, the Indian Council of Medical Research on Tuesday advised states not…
Coronavirus lockdown: Chaos at Delhi-Ghaziabad border as movement of people banned
GHAZIABAD: The district administration on Tuesday banned the movement of people between Ghaziabad and Delhi as per lockdown orders, an…
New map uses Facebook studies to recognize coronavirus hot spots
By Amy Graff, SFGATE Published 5:21 pm PDT, Monday, April 20, 2020 Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University have teamed up…
Cemetery races to keep up as New York virus deaths mount
Cemetery races to keep up as New York virus deaths mountBy DAVID GOLDMAN and MATT SEDENSKYApril 21, 2020 GMTNEW YORK…
U.S. keeps track of reports of North Korean leader’s health problem; South Korea, China skeptical
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean and Chinese officials on Tuesday cast doubt on reports North Korean leader Kim Jong Un…
U.S. coronavirus response deepens divide as Trump suspends immigration
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus took an even sharper political turn on Tuesday after…
Coronavirus shelter-at-home rules upend U.S. child abuse avoidance system
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - A California case worker hears screaming as she tries to conduct a telephone session for a…
Schumer says he sees U.S. Senate deal on coronavirus funding expense
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress moved toward a fourth coronavirus relief bill expected to top $450 billion, as Senate…
UK’s COVID-19 death toll is far higher than daily figure, data suggests
LONDON (Reuters) - The true extent of Britain’s COVID-19 death toll was more than 40% higher than the government’s daily…
Oil at two-decade lows, price of U.S. crude for delivery below zero
LONDON (Reuters) - Benchmark Brent and U.S. oil futures for June delivery plunged to around two-decade lows on Tuesday, a…
Dealing with the dead: the female undertakers of Harlem
NEW YORK (Reuters) - There are 48 bodies in the basement of the funeral home in Harlem. Forty are in…
Oil crash knocks stocks, dollar gains as danger belief rolls over
LONDON (Reuters) - Global stocks fell on Tuesday, a day after U.S. crude oil prices turned negative for the first…
Coronavirus very likely of animal origin, no sign of lab manipulation: WHO
FILE PHOTO: A logo is pictured outside a building of the World Health Organization (WHO) during an executive board meeting…
Muted celebrations as Britain’s Queen Elizabeth turns 94
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s record-breaking Queen Elizabeth turns 94 on Tuesday but the coronavirus lockdown means there will be little…
Coders Who Survived Human Trafficking Rewrite Their Identities
At a family center in downtown Oakland, 11 students are training with two lecturers and two teaching assistants. Toys are…
Google’s Head of Quantum Computing Hardware Resigns
In late October 2019, Google CEO Sundar Pichai likened the latest result from the company’s quantum computing hardware lab in…
Facebook Gaming Is Here—but Who Is It For?
For years, the words “ Facebook” and “gaming” were more likely to evoke memories of an aunt’s dusty Words With…
Woman Gaga’s Together at Home Raised $128 Million for Covid-19 Relief
Hello, and welcome to a new edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s entertainment news roundup. This time around we have a…
Coronavirus News Tiredness Is Officially Embeding In
When confronted with a calamity that demands we stay home the majority of the time, it’s only natural that many…
Rajasthan ceases use of quick testing kits as most results invalid
The rapid testing kits gave only 5.4% accurate results in Rajasthan against the expectation of 90% accuracy. | Photo Credit:…
Explained | Why are oil prices in negative terrain?
Story so far: Prices of West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the American benchmark for crude oil, fell to less than zero…
Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora stuck in U.S. due to travel curbs
Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora | Photo Credit: AKHILESH KUMAR He went to the country on a personal visit and…
Coronavirus India lockdown Day 28 updates | Positive cases cross 18,500, death toll at 593
The COVID-19 situation is “especially serious” in Mumbai, Pune, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata and a few other places in West Bengal,…
Trump to suspend immigration into U.S.
U.S. President Donald Trump. | Photo Credit: AP “In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as…
Indian Envoy condemns hate-speech by Indians in the UAE
Cautioning Indians in the United Arab Emirates against a spate of religiously derogatory posts, India’s Ambassador to the UAE said…
Why states fear lockdown more than Centre
For several states, the lockdown has come at a huge cost. A FIRST: For the first time in several years,…
Supreme Court dismisses plea seeking free test, treatment for coronavirus infection
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed a plea seeking direction to the Centre, all states and Union territories to…
Pakistan removes thousands of names from terrorist watch list: Report
NEW YORK: Pakistan has quietly removed around 1,800 terrorists from its watch list, including that of the 2008 Mumbai attack…
Day 28 of coronavirus lockdown: Ground report from Indian cities
TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Apr 21, 2020, 12:44 ISTNEW DELHI: The total number of Covid-19 cases in the country stood at 18,601,…
RBI has list of policy options to combat crisis
NEW DELHI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has a number of policy options to draw upon to cushion the…
India heaven for Muslims; their economic, religious rights secure: Minority affairs minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi after OIC criticism
NEW DELHI: Days after the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation expressed concern over alleged incidents of "Islamophobia" in India, minority affairs…
Trump says he will suspend all immigration into U.S. over coronavirus | CBC News
President Donald Trump said on Monday he will suspend all immigration into the United States temporarily through an executive order…
Couple finds neighbour dead after Nova Scotia rampage | CBC News
Residents along a small back road in rural Nova Scotia are reeling after watching a neighbouring home burn to the…