MAY 26, 2020
Chinese President Xi Jinping (Reuters photo)
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday directed China's armed forces to strengthen training of troops and to be ready for war amid coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic's visible impact on the world's most populous country's national security.
State media reports quoted the Chinese premier as saying that it was important to "comprehensively strengthen...
MAY 26, 2020
IndiGo on Tuesday grounded the crew of Chennai-Coimbatore flight after a passenger travelling on-board was found to be coronavirus positive.
This is the first case of a passenger testing positive for Covid-19 after the domestic flight services resumed on Monday.
The passenger, who was on-board the Chennai-Coimbatore IndiGo flight 6E 381, has been sent on quarantine at ESI...
MAY 26, 2020
A cicada is seen on a branch in Virginia in this stock photo. - STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images
Americans won't be the only ones emerging from their isolation this summer; so too will millions of insects that have been underground for nearly two decades.
A species of cicadas will buzz around in southwest Virginia, parts of North Carolina and...
MAY 26, 2020
Pump jacks operate in front of a drilling rig in an oil field in Midland, Texas U.S. August 22, 2018. Picture taken August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Nick Oxford
A U.S. ban on new offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, which presidential hopeful Joe Biden promised to enact if elected, would lead to hundreds of thousands of job losses...
MAY 25, 2020
Dr. Greg Gulbransen performs a medical checkup on a 72-year-old man with Leukemia who is presumed to have the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while at his pediatric practice in Oyster Bay, New York, U.S., April 13, 2020.
Dr. Rafael Guillen spends a lot of time on the phone these days. His practice in the Bronx closed its doors...
MAY 25, 2020
Joe Biden is taking on President Trump over the economy.
The former vice president's campaign believes he has an opening with voters on an issue that has been a strength of Trump's given the economic harm caused by the coronavirus pandemic, which has locked down businesses and led to skyrocketing unemployment.
They plan to argue that Trump handled...
MAY 25, 2020
As field-level talks to lower tensions along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh remain inconclusive, the Indian Army has increased its presence in Uttarakhand following reports of a Chinese troop build-up in an area on their side of the LAC.
And in eastern Ladakh, which is part of the western sector, the Army has inducted...
MAY 25, 2020
OLDER children of Classes 9, 10, 11, and 12 are expected to be back in schools first as they are better able to comply with rules on masks and social distancing, The Indian Express has learned.
The HRD Ministry is working with the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) on devising basic guidelines for reopening of...
MAY 25, 2020
Migrants carrying their belongings wait in line to board buses to reach their native places in Mumbai, India on May 24, 2020. India continues in nationwide lockdown to control the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. (Photo by Himanshu Bhatt/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
With 2,436 new Covid-19 cases, Maharashtra now has 52,667 cases, of which at least 35,178...
MAY 25, 2020
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi. - Indian Prime Ministry /Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
As India crosses the 1 lakh tests per day milestone and begins work on the next, a senior government official on Monday underlined that India's testing strategy had evolved to try "remain ahead of the virus" despite the healthcare infrastructure constraints and ensure that...
