- Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Ivanka Trump, the senior advisor to President Donald Trump, has lauded an initiative by Ritesh Agarwal-founded Indian start-up OYO Hotels to offer free stay to doctors, nurses in the US helping in the fight against the novel coronavirus, describing the gesture as “impactful acts of benevolence”. She made her comment…
INDIAN doctors working with the NHS have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to scrap an “unfair and discriminatory” surcharge imposed on foreign doctors, many of whom are on the front line against the coronavirus pandemic that has infected over 9,500 people in the country. The Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS),…
HIGHS AND LOWS OF STARS FROM THE CURRENT CORONA PANDEMIC THE global coronavirus pandemic is bringing out different sides to celebrities around the world. Some have seemingly disappeared, others are using this crisis as an opportunity to gain cheap publicity and the select few are stepping up to make a…
The BCCI should not “wait forever” to start the women’s IPL, India’s women’s ODI captain Mithali Raj has said, urging the board to make it happen next year on a smaller scale before gradually developing it. “I personally feel they should start a women’s IPL by next year, even if…
by NEERAJ KRISHNA AS THE World Health Organization and health specialists emphasised the importance of thorough hand-washing to keep coronavirus away, a police media team in a south Indian state brainstormed on how to take the message to the masses. “We wanted to avoid a routine press release, or poster,”…
TRIBUTES have been paid to Indian chef Floyd Cardoz who died after testing positive for the novel coronavirus, family sources said on Wednesday (25). Cardoz, 59, died of Covid-19 infection in a hospital in New York, the sources said. He was the co-owner of two popular restaurants in Mumbai, Bombay…
DETECTIVES investigating a 40-year-old woman’s murder in East Ham have renewed pleas for help to identify the suspect. The CCTV footage accessed by the police showed the man in Altmore Avenue near Barking Road, where Shadika Mohsin Patel was stabbed multiple times on March 19. Police and the London Ambulance…
The United Nations has backed India’s 21-day nationwide lockdown, and a top WHO official termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic “comprehensive and robust”. Globally, the death toll from the coronavirus has risen to 18,915 with more than 422,900 cases reported in over 165 countries and…
Ravichandran Ashwin lightheartedly invoked his 'mankad' controversy with England's Jos Buttler as India's superstar cricketers urged the nation of 1.3 billion to observe its strict lockdown to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus. The spin bowler tweeted a picture of his dismissal of Buttler exactly a year ago in the Indian…
INDIA strongly condemned the terror attack on a gurdwara in Afghanistan’s Kabul that killed 11 people on Wednesday (25). Targeting of a religious place in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak reflects the “diabolical mindset” of the perpetrators and their backers, the external affairs ministry said. Heavily armed gunmen and…
