- Wednesday, April 16, 2025
When ace cricketer Virat Kohli switches to football for the Indian team’s customary pre-match drill, he plays it as if it’s the Fifa World Cup final or the FA Cup final, says former England skipper Nasser Hussain. Hussain, who has played international cricket for more than a decade and is…
The death toll due to COVID-19 pandemic rose to 308 on Monday (13) in India after 35 new fatalities were reported, while the number of cases climbed to 9,152, according to the health ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 7,987, as many as 856 people have been…
South Asia is on course for its worst economic performance in 40 years, with decades of progress in the battle against poverty at risk, because of coronavirus, the World Bank said Sunday (12). India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other smaller nations, which have 1.8 billion people and some of the…
An officer's hand was chopped off with a sword and two other Punjab policemen injured Sunday when a group of Nihangs attacked them after being asked to show curfew passes at a vegetable market in Patiala district, police said. Eleven people, including five attackers, were arrested hours later after an exchange of…
The death toll due to the novel coronavirus rose to 273 and the number of cases to 8,477 in the country on Sunday, according to the Union Health Ministry. While the number of active COVID-19 cases is 7,367, as many as 715 people were cured and discharged and one had migrated,…
The Art of Living Foundation, along with its humanitarian arm International Association for Human Values (IAHV), has reached out to over a million families across locked-down India, providing more than 500 tonnes of relief material. Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravishankar had given a call to aid daily-wage workers and stranded…
INDIA, reports say, has decided to extend the lockdown by two weeks. Prime minister Narendra Modi and state heads reportedly reached a consensus on the extension during a meeting via videoconferencing on Saturday (11). Modi has recommended three zones -- red, green and yellow -- for the lockdown, depending on…
MORE than 40 Indian-Americans and Indian nationals have reportedly died due to Covid-19 and the number of those having tested positive for the dreaded disease is likely over 1,500, according to community leaders in the US. The US has become the world’s first country to have registered more than 2,000…
India said on Friday (10) it ramped up coronavirus testing as documented cases rose above 6,700 in the country, and topped 12,000 across South Asia. The epidemic has killed at least 206 in India, data shows, with its capital Delhi and financial hub Mumbai emerging as hotspots, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
Professional work may have come to a halt amid the nation-wide lockdown due to coronavirus, but Bollywood stars have found themselves playing multiple roles for their kids in quarantine -- from being their teachers, to engaging with them in activities as friends. India is currently under the lockdown with around…
