35 people booked for attacking police party in Poonch
Jammu: Police on Monday booked 35 people, including a former sarpanch and his family members, in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district for allegedly attacking a police party, which was rushed to a village after reports of lockdown violations there, a senior officer said. Acting on the information that a former sarpanch had engaged dozens of […]
Pak clerics warn govt against ban on religious congregations amidst coronavirus outbreak
Islamabad: A group of over 50 senior clerics in Pakistan has warned the government against the ban on religious congregations amidst the coronavirus outbreak and said the authorities should instead abide by religious norms and allow more worshippers in mosques to seek forgiveness from Allah. The government has banned prayer congregations of more than five […]
IMF projects India’s growth rate at 1.9% in 2020, forecasts global recession due to COVID-19
Washington: The IMF on Tuesday projected a GDP growth of 1.9 per cent for India in 2020, as the global economy hits the worst recession since the Great Depression in the 1930s due to the raging coronavirus pandemic that has nearly stalled all economic activities across the world. With this subdued forecast, India is likely […]
Coronavirus could see UK GDP fall 13 per cent in 2020: watchdog
London: Britain’s economy could shrink by 13 per cent in 2020 in the case of a three-month coronavirus lockdown, according to a scenario published Tuesday by fiscal watchdog the Office for Budget Responsibility. “The resulting 13 per cent fall in annual GDP in 2020 would comfortably exceed any of the annual falls around the end […]
More than 120,000 killed by coronavirus worldwide
Paris: The novel coronavirus has killed more than 120,000 people worldwide, nearly 70 percent of them in Europe, according to a tally compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT Tuesday from official sources. A total of 120,013 deaths have now been recorded since the epidemic first emerged in China in December, 81,474 of them in Europe. […]
Coronavirus deaths in Sweden cross 1,000: health agency
Stockholm: Sweden on Tuesday reported that more than 1,000 people have died from the novel coronavirus, while the number of confirmed cases crossed 11,000. Sweden’s Public Health Agency said it had recorded a total of 11,445 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 1,033 deaths. It cautioned that the true number of deaths might be higher as […]
Stock markets rise as China data beats forecasts
London: Stock markets mostly rose on Tuesday as better-than-expected Chinese trade data lifted the economic gloom wrought by the coronavirus pandemic. Oil prices fell, despite US President Donald Trump claiming that producers were mulling a global daily output cut of 20 million barrels. And the dollar dropped against main rivals, helping to push gold above […]
Global coronavirus toll rises to 114,539
Paris: The worldwide death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 114,539 on Monday, according to a tally compiled by AFP from official sources. More than 1,853,300 declared cases have been registered in 193 countries and territories since the epidemic first emerged in China in December. Of these cases, at least 395,000 are now […]
