India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday thanked United States President Donald Trump for his remarks that the US stands with India during the coronavirus pandemic as also for deciding to provide ventilators to New Delhi to help patients suffering from COVID-19.

PM Modi thanks Trump for providing ventilators to India amid coronavirus crisis

A previously known antiviral drug can speed up recovery of COVID-19 patients, a recent study has found in what may be called an advance that may help slow down the tide of the pandemic across the world.

Antiviral drug interferon can speed up recovery of COVID-19 patients, says study

Until mid-April, Pakistan remained to be the only neighbour to not have asked India for hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) amid the global coronavirus criris. But when it finally did, it sort of brought forth a confused Imran Khan.

To import or not to import HCQ -- that's the confusion with Pakistan

The coronavirus pandemic has killed over 2,80,000 people globally, and several drugmakers are racing to develop a viable treatment or vaccine to combat the outbreak.

Gilead gives royalty-free licences for remdesivir to Indian firms

The number of coronavirus cases in Mumbai's Dharavi, considered to be the biggest slum of Asia, rose to 1,028 on Wednesday. The death toll due to the pandemic in the area rose to 40 on Tuesday from 31.

Coronavirus count in Mumbai's Dharavi crosses 1,000, death toll stands at 40

The Calgary Zoo in Canada has planned to send two giant pandas back to China due to a shortage of bamboo. A panda's diet consists almost entirely of fresh bamboo and the animals typically eat about 40 kilograms of it each day.

Canada zoo is sending two pandas back to China because it can't get enough bamboo to feed them

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has finally seen some positive data in its mission to resolve the coronavirus crisis. The WHO on Tuesday said that some treatments appear to be limiting the severity or length of COVID-19, the disease caused due to the novel coronavirus, referring to the results of early studies of four or five treatments.

WHO finally sees 'potentially positive data' in treating coronavirus

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday strongly pitched for "collective action" by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in dealing with the overwhelming threat of terrorism.

Collective action needed to deal with terrorism: India at SCO

Saudi Arabia will enforce a countrywide 24-hour curfew during the five-day Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday later this month to help stem the spread of the coronavirus.

Saudi Arabia to enforce 24-hour curfew during the five-day Eid al-Fitr holiday

Rail Bhavan, which is the headquarters of the Indian Railways in Central Delhi, will be shut for the next two days after an RPF staffer tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday.

Rail Bhavan shut for two days after staff tests positive for coronavirus

Airlines will not have to leave seats empty, but passengers flying in the European Union will have to wear masks on planes and in airports under plans to revive the travel industry.

No empty seats under EU plans to get planes back in sky

Britain's economy shrank by a record 5.8% in March as the coronavirus crisis escalated and the government shut down much of the country, according to official data that point towards an even bigger hit to come.

UK's economy shrank by 5.8% in March amid coronavirus crisis

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