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Mafias in Italy buying food for poor, offering interest-free lending to exert more control: Expert

ROME: Criminal organisations in Italy are distributing food and ordering interest-free lending to the needy to try to extend their influence, Italian anti-mafia author Roberto Saviano has warned. Italy's mafia…

admin April 10, 2020

International NRI

Nepal, India agree to enhance cooperation in fight against coronavirus

KATHMANDU: Nepal Prime Minister KP Oli and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on Friday agreed to enhance cooperation to further intensify the fight against the coronavirus and underlined the need…

admin April 10, 2020

International NRI

Spain sees lowest coronavirus daily toll in 17 days with 605 deaths

MADRID: Spain has recorded its lowest daily death toll from the new coronavirus in 17 days, with 605 people dying, the government said on Friday. The update raised the overall…

admin April 10, 2020

NRI

Singapore battles COVID-19 hotspots in migrant workers’ dorms

KUALA LUMPUR: After managing to keep on top of the first wave of coronavirus outbreaks, Singapore is grappling with an alarming rise in infections among migrant workers housed in crowded…

admin April 10, 2020

International NRI

Coronavirus mars Easter holidays as global death toll nears 100,000

ROME: Hundreds of millions of people around the world will spend the Easter holiday at home as lockdown measures intensify to combat the coronavirus, a pandemic with a global death…

admin April 10, 2020

International NRI

World faces worst economic fallout since Great Depression: IMF chief

WASHINGTON: The global coronavirus pandemic is causing an economic crisis unlike any in the past century and will require a massive response to help in the recovery, IMF chief Kristalina…

admin April 9, 2020

International NRI

Bangkok to ban alcohol sales to curb coronavirus as people continue to host parties

BANGKOK: Sales of alcoholic beverages will be banned in Thailand's cal Bangkok for a 10-day period starting Friday as part of the effort to contain the spread of COVID-19 infections.…

admin April 9, 2020

International NRI

How technology is tackling coronavirus-induced isolation in Norway

OSLO: Widower Per Leif Rolid lives alone on his farm, a two-hour drive from Oslo. His sense of isolation has mounted with the COVID-19 pandemic, but a simple screen is…

admin April 9, 2020

International NRI

Pakistan to block India’s moves to fight virus by seeking COVID-19 initiatives under SAARC

NEW DELHI: Pakistan is aiming to score narrow political goals by attempting to bring India's initiatives to collectively fight the coronavirus pandemic in the SAARC region under the formal umbrella…

admin April 9, 2020

News Political News

Corona lockdown: 12 Lakh calls to Dial 100

The state of Telangana has been under lockdown since March 23rd in view of Corona virus. However, the government has allowed supply of essential commodities and urged people to 'Dial…

admin April 7, 2020

News Political News

KCR not taking a lesson from Modi!

At a time when the entire country is suffering the impact of Coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going about in a systematic way without taking any unilateral decisions.…

admin April 7, 2020

International NRI

Medicine shortage looms over coronavirus-hit Europe

THE HAGUE: While the world waits for a coronavirus vaccine, medicines used to deal with the symptoms of the disease are increasingly in critically short supply in Europe, the worst-hit…

admin April 7, 2020