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A shopping mall official (unseen) uses a thermal scanner to check the temperature of shoppers before they enter at the Centaurus Mall after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Islamabad. (AFP)

Pakistan uses militant-tracking tech to hunt virus

Intelligence services are using geo-fencing and phone-monitoring systems that ordinarily are employed to hunt high-value...

28 May 2020 11:43 AM IST

Mr. Thondaman, who was Minister for Community Empowerment and Estate Infrastructure Development, and was the grandson of the prominent trade unionist, Saumyamoorthi Thondaman

Tamil Nadu CM mourns the death of Sri Lankan minister Thondaman

Expressing deep pain and grief at the passing away of Mr. Thondaiman, the Chief Minister sent a condolence message to...

27 May 2020 5:37 PM IST

People carry the casket of a victim of Fridays plane crash, for funeral prayers in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, May 23, 2020. (AP)

Turbulence, warnings before Pakistan plane crash killed 97

The plane crashed at 2:39 p.m. near Jinnah International Airport, in the poor and congested residential area known as...

24 May 2020 12:37 PM IST

Visitors wearing mask to curb the spread of the coronavirus takes shelter from a sudden rainstorm in Beijing. (AP)

China reports 39 new coronavirus cases

All except three are asymptomatic cases, of which 30 are reported from Hubei province and Wuhan

24 May 2020 10:37 AM IST

Volunteers wearing protective suits check identity of a resident at the entrance of a residental area in Jilin, in Chinas northeastern Jilin province. (AFP)

Wuhan lab had three live bat coronaviruses

Lab authorities assert none of the strains obtained from bats are a match for the new contagion wreaking chaos across...

24 May 2020 10:04 AM IST

Volunteers and soldiers look for survivors of a plane crash in a residential area of Karachi, Pakistan, May 22, 2020. (AP)

Only two survivors from Pakistan air disaster

Authorities confirm 97 killed in crash of Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane

23 May 2020 8:47 AM IST

Representational Image. (AFP)

Pakistani aircraft crashes in Karachi

The PIA aircraft, with 99 passengers and eight crew members, crashed in a densely populated area

22 May 2020 4:24 PM IST

10 killed as cyclone Amphan batters Bangladesh. (AFP Photo)

10 killed as cyclone Amphan batters Bangladesh

Many low-lying areas were inundated, embankments collapsed, trees uprooted and houses damaged by cyclone in coastal...

21 May 2020 3:47 PM IST

Workers unload goods from a truck ahead of the expected landfall of cyclone Amphan, in Khulna. (AFP)

Cyclone Amphan: Bangladesh moves Rohingya refugees to island shelters

The cyclone could hamper efforts to control a coronavirus outbreak in the refugee camps, which reported their first...

20 May 2020 2:23 PM IST

Traffic congestion is seen on a road in Wuhan, in Chinas central Hubei province. (AFP)

China sees rise in air pollution post-lockdown

After months of lockdown, China is reopening its economy as the outbreak comes under control, causing emissions to spike

18 May 2020 1:03 PM IST

A portrait of the 11th Panchen Lama, Gendhun Choekyi Nyima, an important religious leader second only to the Dalai Lama in the Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy, is seen as exile Tibetans mark his birthday in Dharmsala, India. (AP)

Tibetans demand China disclose fate of Lama taken away in '95

The Tibetan parliament in northern India, said the boy continues to be recognised as the 11th Panchen Lama

18 May 2020 9:55 AM IST

A medical worker takes a swab sample from a man to be tested for the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in a neighborhood in Wuhan. (AFP)

Lack of immunity makes China vulnerable to second wave of virus...

Doctor Zhong Nanshan, senior medical advisor of the Chinese government and pivotal in China's corona fight explains

17 May 2020 1:56 PM IST