Day: May 19, 2020

US President Donald Trump on Monday said he has been taking anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a preventive measure against coronavirus.

The Pakistan Army today shelled forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, drawing retaliation from the Indian Army, a defence spokesperson said.

Super cyclone Amphan will make landfall on May 20 between Digha in West Bengal and Hatia island in Bangladesh, chief of the National Disaster Response Force, S N Pradha has said.

 A truck carrying migrant labourers overturned on the Jhansi-Mirzapur highway, leaving three women dead and 17 others injured, police said today.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday for his “U-turn” on the MGNREGA scheme, and thanked him for understanding its vision and allocating an additional budget of Rs 40,000 crore for it.

After a gap of nearly two months, smile was back on the face of barbers today, as saloons were reopened in rural areas of Tamilnadu this morning.

With the government extending the nationwide lockdown up to 31 May, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to extend the moratorium on repayment of loans for three more months, according to an SBI research report.

Covid -19 has been on the rise in Chennai in the recent weeks. With the government already working on a war footing, private hospitals too have chipped in to play an active role to contain this pandemic.

Sravya Annappareddy, a 10-year-old Indian-American girl, has been honoured by President Donald Trump for donating cookies to nurses and firefighters and sending personalised greeting cards to healthcare workers fighting COVID-19 pandemic in the US, the worst affected country in the world.

Maharashtra Minister and senior NCP leader Jitendra Awhad has said he contracted the novel coronavirus infection due to ‘overconfidence’.