Major General S B Asthana (Retd) sheds a light on how Pakistan is using coronavirus crisis to step up terror activities.

How Pakistan is using coronavirus to fuel terrorism

Nearly 40 countries have come out to help India as it battles the devastating covid crisis, with a focus on getting liquid oxygen, oxygen generating equipment, tankers, and medicines.

India covid crisis: Outpouring of solidarity by international community, says FS Shringla

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said it was concerned about the potential criminal exploitation of the huge unmet global demand for Covid-19 vaccines, warned against counterfeit vaccines and urged people to stick to government-run vaccination programs.

WHO warns of counterfeit COVID-19 vaccines

Coronavirus pandemic has pushed several economies into a deep recession. The outbreak has had a big impact on the economic, social, and political fronts in many parts of the world. In Myanmar, the virus has dragged the poor families to an edge. Watch report.

Myanmar's coronavirus crisis: Virus drags poor families to the edge

Global influenza vaccine makers, in view of the coronavirus pandemic, have seen almost an 11 per cent increase in production of doses for the coming flu season, as authorities try to ease the burden on hospitals ahead of an expected COVID-19 resurgence.

Amid coronavirus crisis, flu vaccine makers see record US production

The United States has announced it will not take in any new foreign students seeking online-only study, after revoking a controversial order that expelled those already studying in the country and preparing for that in the wake of the pandemic.

US announces it won't take new foreign students for all-online classes

Top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci has said that life could return to normal by sometime next year with sufficient coronavirus vaccine production. Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, told CNN on Thursday that the companies behind potential vaccines told him "they would have doses to the tunes of tens of millions early in the year, and up to hundreds of millions as we get well into 2021, and some companies say that even after awhile, you could get as many as a billion doses.

Real normality could take a year to return: US expert on coronavirus crisis

The German envoy to India Walter Lindner and EU envoy to India Ugo Astuto have called for more multilateralism and cooperation in the face of the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the entire planet, and climate change.

Europe's world view: German, EU envoys call for more multilateralism amid coronavirus crisis

Swiss watchmakers expect fallout from the coronavirus pandemic will have a lasting impact on demand for watches, which could mean job cuts later in the year. Watch report.

Coronavirus crisis: Tough time for Swiss watchmakers, Watch exports plunged 68% in May

The coronavirus crisis can cause $25 trillion fossil fuel industry collapse by accelerating a terminal decline for the world’s most polluting companies. A study has found that the value of the world’s fossil fuel reserves could fall by two-thirds, sooner than the industry expects, because the crisis has hastened the peak for oil, gas and coal demand.

Coronavirus crisis can trigger collapse of $25 trillion fossil fuel industry

After long refusing to explicitly criticise a sitting president, former Defense Secretary James Mattis accused President Donald Trump on Wednesday of trying to divide America and roundly denounced a militarisation of the US response to civil unrest.

Trump trying to divide America: Former defence secy Mattis breaks silence on US civil unrest

Just a day before the all-important International Cricket Council (ICC) meeting, reports have surfaced that the T20 World Cup, scheduled to be hosted by Australia in October-November, is all set to be postponed till 2022, opening a window for Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 later in the year.

T20 World Cup set to be postponed to 2022, IPL likely in October-November: Reports

The coronavirus pandemic has transformed from a health crisis to a humanitarian crisis. It was declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization on January 31.

Transformation of coronavirus pandemic from health to humanitarian crisis

Spraying disinfectant and beating slit drums, a group of superheroes recently descended upon a village in Indonesia's Sukoharjo to warn people about the danger of the new coronavirus and teach them tricks to combat it.

Superheroes to the rescue in Indonesia's war against coronavirus

Coronavirus lockdown: Confined in homes, people find solace in 'open' cinemas

Coronavirus pandemic spreads across prisons worldwide

Scientists across the globe have turned to sewage as the latest method to measure the prevalence of the hidden cases of the virus in their communities. Several local governments in the US are also using the same method to detect traces of RNA, the genetic material of coronavirus, in fecal matter.

Sewage: New way to deduct prevalence of COVID-19 by scientists

A deadlier and more destructive catastrophe than the coronavirus pandemic will engulf the world if the root cause of COVID-19, that is the rampant destruction of the natural world, is rapidly halted, the world’s leading biodiversity experts have warned.

Curb coronavirus' root cause or bear worse pandemics, say world’s leading scientists

The deadly coronavirus pandemic has not only generated a health emergency but a great economic crisis globally. Many countries around the world are in the infancy stage of the fight against it.

Coronavirus crisis is not going away anytime soon: WHO

United Nations' food relief agency has warned that the world is at risk of widespread famines "of biblical proportions" caused by the coronavirus pandemic. More than 30 countries in the developing world could experience widespread famine, and in 10 of those countries there are already more than 1 million people on the brink of starvation, said David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Programme (WFP).

World at risk of 'biblical famines' due to COVID-19, says UN

The coronavirus death toll in the United States, the country with the most fatalities in the pandemic, has climbed by 2,751 in the past 24 hours, the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University showed Tuesday.

More than 2,700 dead in US from coronavirus in last 24 hours

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will issue an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration to the United States to protect US workers amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak "It would be wrong and unjust for Americans laid off by the virus to be replaced with new immigrant labor flown in from abroad," Trump said during a White House press briefing.

Inside Trump's proposal to suspend legal immigration amid the coronavirus crisis

US President Donald Trump has threatened to terminate the trade deal with China if Beijing did not honour its provisions in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic that originated in the country.

Trump threatens to terminate trade deal if China does not honour it citing coronavirus crisis

Parisians have been in lockdown for nearly five weeks on Sunday (April 19), and many are already looking forward to May 11th, the date set by French President Emmanuel Macron as the end of the confinement period.

A haircut, a hug, a drink at a bar: Parisians dream of end to lockdown

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