Plague bacteria Yersinia pestis breaks free of lab in Russia, White House monitoring suspected outbreak after laboratory worker dies: Here is what happenedThe woman who died worked at an anti-plague research facility in Russia's Irkutsk region. Russian authorities took precautionary measures a...
05 Oct, 2026, 09.29 AM IST
Russia kills 27 civilians in Ukraine as the Kremlin remains defiant over Trump threatsRussian attacks in Ukraine resulted in numerous casualties. Strikes hit a prison in Zaporizhzhia, killing inmates. A Dnipro medical facilit...
30 Jul, 2025, 12.06 AM IST
China accuses 'some Western media' of COVID-19 coverage biasAn editorial in the ruling Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily outlined what it called China's "optimization and control measures" an...
19 Jan, 2023, 12.10 PM IST
Oil prices fall on worries about China COVID surge, global recessionOil refiners in the U.S. on Tuesday were working to resume operations at a dozen facilities knocked offline by freeze weather across much o...
28 Dec, 2022, 03.19 PM IST
Mikhail Gorbachev, man who ended the Cold War, dies at 91Gorbachev, who was in power between 1985 and 1991 and helped bring US-Soviet relations out of a deep freeze, was the last surviving Cold Wa...
31 Aug, 2022, 06.42 AM IST
China locks down millions more as Covid spreadsJilin, the second-biggest city in Jilin province, will lock down about 4.5 million inhabitants for three days from Monday night, local auth...
21 Mar, 2022, 10.36 AM IST
Russian prime minister says he tested positive for virusMikhail Mishustin told President Vladimir Putin during a video call that he would self-isolate but planned to stay in touch on key policy i...
01 May, 2020, 07.41 AM IST
Northwest China sees return of coronavirus casesShaanxi province reported 21 new infections from abroad as well as seven cases with no clinical symptoms, all of whom were travellers on a ...
21 Apr, 2020, 11.26 AM IST
COVID-19: China shuts down largest makeshift hospital in Wuhan, last batch of medics leaveAs the number of coronavirus cases abates, China shutdown one of its largest makeshift hospitals built in February to treat the surging COV...
15 Apr, 2020, 12.03 PM IST
India eases curbs on the drug Trump wantsIndian share markets posted their best day since 2009 on signs that the pandemic could be waning in intensity. Sensex snapped its multi-day...
07 Apr, 2020, 11.54 PM IST
Day 1 of lockdown: More and more factories shut shop; India's count crosses 600With most businesses having to work from home or with minimal personnel, many have temporarily shut shop.
25 Mar, 2020, 11.54 PM IST
Moscow deploys facial recognition technology for coronavirus quarantineMoscow is using facial recognition technology to ensure people ordered to remain at home or at their hotels under coronavirus quarantine do...
21 Feb, 2020, 06.12 PM IST
nCoV outbreak: Govt directs ports to put screening system; regular monitoring of situation by PMO, othersA detailed statement regarding the situation and measures taken to check the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus (nCoV) was made by Unio...
07 Feb, 2020, 09.29 PM IST
Huawei India indefinitely suspends travel to, from China"The recent outbreak of respiratory illness caused by novel coronavirus (nCoV) first detected in Wuhan, China, has concerned Huawei. In acc...
05 Feb, 2020, 09.33 PM IST
DGCI approves 'restricted use' of anti-HIV drugs on nCoV patientsAccording to government sources, apex health research body Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) had sought an emergency approval from ...
05 Feb, 2020, 08.50 PM IST
- India issues advisory against travel to US, UK, France, Canada
As the Union health ministries' high-level meeting on swine flu outbreak ended on Monday, the government issued a travel advisory, asking I...
28 Apr, 2009, 02.54 AM IST
- India issues travel advisory in wake of swine flu epidemic
As the Union health ministries' high-level meeting on swine flu outbreak ended on Monday, the government issued a travel advisory, asking I...
27 Apr, 2009, 04.03 PM IST