COVID-19 vaccine may never be found, warns UK PM
London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a COVID-19 survivor, has warned that a mass vaccine for the highly contagious disease may be over a year away and may in fact never be found. In his foreword to the government’s new 50-page guidance on a step by step easing of the lockdown measures in place to […]
Pak reduces quarantine period for inbound air passengers
Islamabad: Pakistan has reduced the quarantine period before testing for inbound air passengers from 48 hours to the earliest possible in an effort to bring back more citizens stranded abroad amidst the coronavirus-induced travel restrictions. Following Prime Minister Imran Khan’s directive to bring stranded citizens back home, the National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC), in […]
Covid-19: Death toll surges past 80,000 in US
Washington: President Donald Trump has said the US has increased the COVID-19 testing capacity and the number of tests being conducted in the country will cross the 10 million-mark this week even as the coronavirus deaths surged past 80,000 in the world’s worst-affected nation. The coronavirus, which originated in China, has so far infected more […]
COVID-19: Jaishankar to take part in SCO FMs video conference
Beijing: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar would take part in an extraordinary meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the eight member Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on Wednesday to discuss cooperation to fight against the deadly coronavirus. Zhao Lijian, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, told a media briefing here on Tuesday that the video conference would discuss […]
Despite testing positive for Covid-19 teacher continues to educate students
Leh: Despite having tested positive for COVID-19, a teacher in quarantine in Ladakh is making sure his students don’t miss out on learning mathematical formulas or algebra problems more complex than the curveballs life may sometimes throw at them. Lodged in an isolation centre in Leh, Kifayat Hussain is taking online classes using internet communication […]
U’khand experiments with establishing ‘tulip garden’
Omar Abdullah says Tulips in Kashmir are the best
Dehradun: Photographs of the tulip garden in Munsyari, a tourist hotspot, by Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat immediately went viral on Twitter and attracted a number of reactions, including from former Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah. Seeing the pictures of the tulip garden, Abdullah, in a tweet, said though the tulips being grown […]
