- Sunday, April 06, 2025
FIVE COVID-19 patients died in a hospital fire in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Wednesday (27), a fire service official said. It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, said Zillur Rahman, a fire service director. Firefighters extinguished the flames in about an hour, Rahman said. Five bodies were…
A 15-year-old girl who won praise for carrying her injured father hundreds of miles across India by bike said on Wednesday (27) she never thought of giving up after promising her mother she would get him home safely. Jyoti Kumari’s gruelling journey from the outskirts of New Delhi to their…
International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman Shashank Manohar is to step down when his term ends this year, the governing body said on Wednesday (27). The ICC is set to discuss the process to elect its new chief at its board meeting on Thursday (28) with media reports saying that the…
US president Donald Trump offered on Wednesday (27) to mediate in what he called a “raging” border showdown between India and China in the Himalayas. Trump’s offer came after Indian defence sources said hundreds of Chinese troops had moved into a disputed zone along their 3,500 kilometre-long (2,200 mile) frontier.…
Comparisons to India’s “god of cricket” Sachin Tendulkar have not always helped Prithvi Shaw as he seeks to put a doping ban and injury worries behind him and cement his place in the national side. Shaw, now 20, was instantly linked with Tendulkar when he matched the feat of the…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 4,531 and the number of cases climbed to 1,58,333 in India on Thursday (28). The country reported 6,566 cases and 194 deaths in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said. The number of active COVID-19 cases stand at 86,110 while 67,691 people…
BORIS JOHNSON saw his public support suffer the sharpest fall for a Conservative leader in a decade Wednesday (27) as he prepared to be grilled by lawmakers over his handling of the Dominic Cummings scandal. The prime minister has stuck by Cummings despite a public and political backlash over his…
A few days ago, there were reports of veteran actor Kiran Kumar being tested positive for COVID-19. However, now according to a report in PTI, in his third test the actor has been tested negative. In a statement, he said, “My family is still following strict home isolation. I was…
INDIA’s top biomedical research body has backed the use of the anti-malarial hydroxychloroquine as a preventive against the COVID-19, after the WHO suspended clinical trials of the drug over safety concerns. The endorsement from the Indian Council of Medical Research came a week after the US President Donald Trump said…
INDIA is wilting under a heatwave, with the temperature in places reaching 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) and the capital enduring its hottest May day in nearly two decades. The hot spell is projected to scorch northern India for several more days, the Meteorological Department said, “with severe heat…
