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Pakistan has reported 582 new cases of coronavirus, taking the total number of infections in the country to 306,886, the health ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry of national health services said Pakistan also reported the death of four more patients due to which the coronavirus death toll stands ...

KEY FACTS5:39 a.m.: Hollywood unions announce pandemic agreement5:20 a.m.: UK to impose tougher COVID-19 measures amid case spike4 a.m.: Ontario to announce fall COVID-19 plan todayThe latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Tuesday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook said he’s been impressed by employees’ ability to operate remotely and predicted that some new work habits will remain after the pandemic. During an interview at The Atlantic Festival on Monday, Cook said Apple created new products, despite the need for most ...

Months before the pandemic, Haseeb Mushtaq drew up a guest list of hundreds and grand plans for celebrating his wedding in May.But then the pandemic blocked him from traveling home for his wedding from Dubai, where he has an engineering job. When he finally arrived home for his postponed ...

In Indian-controlled Kashmir, the coronavirus pandemic within months has changed an elaborate and lavish marriage tradition that had remained virtually unaltered for centuries.Three days of feasting, elaborate rituals and huge gatherings have been replaced by muted ceremonies attended by a limited number of close relatives and neighbors. With restrictions ...

Students wearing protective masks listen to their teacher as they maintain social distancing at a Kolkata school during a demonstration on protective measures against Covid-19, on June 8, 2020. (REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri) While Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala, Karnataka and Uttarakhand have said schools will not reopen on September ...

NEW DELHI: No significant or drastic mutation in strains of SARS-CoV-2 has been found in India till now, Union minister Harsh Vardhan said on Sunday during an interaction with his social media followers. He also said the Indian Council of Medical Research has been conducting large-scale sequencing of nationally ...

In the year 2000, Ahmed Rashid wrote a book titled Taliban. A radical Islamist group that came to power in Afghanistan in early 1990s, the Taliban ran an already battered country to the ground. However, the story of a homicidal government didn’t matter much to a western world, for ...

As many as 1,492 more people tested coronavirus positive in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, taking the tally in the Union Territory to 62,533, health officials said. As per the information and public relations department, 831 have tested positive from Jammu division and 661 from ...

It includes 5% interest subvention on loans, assistance for artisans. With J&K facing an estimated ₹42,000 crore loss in the past 13 months, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Kumar Sinha announced a relief-and-revival package of ₹1,350 crore to revive the Union Territory’s business sector on Saturday.“I am glad to announce the ...