Passengers evacuated from hantavirus-stricken cruise ship begin flying home from Canary IslandsPassengers from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius are flying home from Tenerife. They are being evacuated by military and governmen...
11 May, 2026, 06.36 AM IST
Two Indians part of crew of luxury cruise ship that reported hantavirus outbreakA hantavirus outbreak has been reported on the Dutch vessel MV Hondius, with five confirmed cases and three deaths, including two Indian na...
08 May, 2026, 11.18 AM IST
WHO warns of more hantavirus cases in 'limited' outbreakThree passengers died from hantavirus after a cruise. The World Health Organization believes the outbreak will be limited if precautions ar...
07 May, 2026, 09.50 PM IST
Govt has eased FDI norms for foreign cos having small Chinese/Hong Kong stake: An explainerIndia has eased Foreign Direct Investment rules for companies with up to ten percent Chinese or Hong Kong shareholding. These firms can now...
04 May, 2026, 12.27 PM IST
Maharashtra puts administration on alert as global cases riseIn a letter to district collectors, municipal commissioners and CEOs of Zilla Parishads - Pradeep Vyas, additional chief secretary asked th...
18 Mar, 2022, 12.23 AM IST
Germany surpasses 100,000 daily COVID-19 cases for first timeGermany's tally of COVID-19 infections now stands at 8,186,850, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious disease said. The death toll...
19 Jan, 2022, 01.15 PM IST
Omicron: Germany announces 4th booster dose, Britain may followGerman Health Minister Karl Lauterbach on Wednesday warned that a fourth dose will be necessary to tackle Omicron, Daily Mail reported. The...
23 Dec, 2021, 09.34 PM IST
Germany finds suspected Covid-19 variant case: Regional official"The Omicron variant has with strong likelihood already arrived in Germany," Kai Klose, social affairs minister in the western state of Hes...
27 Nov, 2021, 04.19 PM IST
Germany reports another COVID-19 record: 50,196 new casesThe total number of confirmed coronavirus cases is now 4.89 million and total deaths rose 235 to 97,198, according to the Robert Koch Insti...
11 Nov, 2021, 12.17 PM IST
Lufthansa to resume India-Germany nonstops from today; no crew change stopover in GulfLufthansa flights between Germany and India will again be nonstop from Wednesday (June 2), thanks to the ebbing of cases during India’s cat...
02 Jun, 2021, 06.22 AM IST
India's new COVID-19 cases per million population in last 7 days among lowest in the world: Health ministry"With a case fatality rate of 1.44 per cent, COVID-19 deaths per million population in India are one of the lowest in the world," the minis...
15 Jan, 2021, 04.09 PM IST
German coronavirus deaths hit new high as lockdown startsFears that the pandemic is spiralling out of control in Germany, Europe's biggest economy, prompted Chancellor Angela Merkel and the 16 sta...
16 Dec, 2020, 12.43 PM IST
Lockdown, Day 63: India faces volley of shotsIndia is facing a volley of shots from all fronts as growth forecast is plummeting, and India faces a resurgent Chinese army at Ladakh. The...
26 May, 2020, 06.54 PM IST
Germany says its virus outbreak is 'manageable'Figures released by the Robert Koch Institute, Germany's disease control center, show that the number of people infected by every person wi...
17 Apr, 2020, 02.41 PM IST
Europe coronavirus cases reach almost 1 million, coming weeks 'critical': WHOCompanies and politicians across the world are worried about the economic impact of a long shutdown, and some countries in Europe - such as...
16 Apr, 2020, 04.23 PM IST
Pass the salt: The minute details that helped Germany build virus defencesIn Germany so far, over 2,100 people have died. In Italy, with a smaller population, the total exceeds 17,600.
10 Apr, 2020, 06.33 PM IST
Germany reports 44 new confirmed coronavirus casesFifteen of Germany's 16 federal states have now reported cases of the novel coronavirus, with the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia b...
04 Mar, 2020, 03.05 PM IST