MARCH 13, 2020
A message reading 'Wash Hands" is seen in the sky over Sydney, Australia, on March 13.
The World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said today that "Europe has now become the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic" while terming the over the 5,000 deaths due to the virus as "a tragic milestone".
"It's impossible for us to say when...
MARCH 13, 2020
Australian home affairs minister Peter Dutton. - Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP
The home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, has confirmed he has tested positive for coronavirus and has been admitted to hospital in Queensland, but a spokesman for Scott Morrison says the prime minister isn’t intending to be tested and no one in the cabinet will be required to...
MARCH 13, 2020
Bajaj Auto has just launched the Dominar 250, at Rs 1.60 lakh, ex-showroom. At this price, the Dominar 250 costs Rs 30,000 less than the Dominar 400, making the Dominar experience accessible to a wider audience. Here are a few things you should know about the new Bajaj Dominar 250.
Looks similar to the Dominar 400
The Dominar...
MARCH 12, 2020
Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 6 December 2019. Sophie Trudeau has tested positive for coronavirus. - Photograph: Christinne Muschi/Reuters
The wife of Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has tested positive for Covid-19 following a trip to the United Kingdom.
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau announced pm Thursday evening that she had tested positive for...
MARCH 11, 2020
President Donald J. Trump delivers a television national address on the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic announcing a travel ban between U.S. and most of Europe from the Oval Office at the White House on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
President Trump’s address to the nation about the spread of the novel coronavirus...
MARCH 11, 2020
Cranes stand idle at the Port of Los Angeles, which is the nation's busiest container port, on March 6, 2020, in San Pedro, California. - Mario Tama/Getty Images
Hundreds of Americans lost jobs this week as the coronavirus outbreak has taken a toll on the U.S. economy and brought industries to a standstill, according to interviews with two...
MARCH 11, 2020
New York Stock Exchange NYSE MKTZ - Spencer Platt / Getty Images
The coronavirus-induced sell-off reached a new low Wednesday as Wall Street grappled with the rapid spread of the virus as well as uncertainty around a fiscal response to curb slower economic growth from the outbreak.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 1,464 points, or nearly 5.9%. The...
MARCH 11, 2020
Disinfection work near the Rialto Bridge in Venice on Wednesday. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy the development of a roughly $28 billion plan to confront the coronavirus emergency.
This is a global pandemic, the W.H.O. says.
The spread of the coronavirus across more than 100 countries now qualifies as a global pandemic, World Health Organization officials said on...
MARCH 10, 2020
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with former Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia. Sanjeev Verma/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
Just two days after Kamal Nath was made chief minister of Madhya Pradesh and his peer Sachin Pilot the deputy chief minister of Rajasthan, we asked Jyotiraditya Scindia if he felt left out. All he said was that "one must aim and...
MARCH 10, 2020
Brent slumped to $31.02 a barrel, before recovering partially to trade at $35.36 per barrel on Monday (Photo: Reuters)
Crude oil crashed more than 30% on Monday in the sharpest plunge since the 1991 Gulf War after the collapse of the Opec+ alliance talks triggered a bloody price war, with both Russia and Saudi Arabia set to...
