Kathmandu, Landslides triggered by heavy rainfall have claimed the lives of 11 people in Nepal's Myagdi district, while search efforts continued on Saturday for 23 missing persons.

"Ten bodies were recovered from Marang while one from Thadakhani. Efforts are on to recover 11 missing from Rikh, Kalleni, Ra

London, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged people living in the country to return to work if they can, signalling a significant shift away from the current government policy, it was reported.

Johnson has announced it is time for people to live their lives "more normally", adding that he wanted to

Geneva, The World Health Organization (WHO) said the novel coronavirus was yet to be brought under control "in most of the world", while warning that it was actually "getting worse".

Speaking at a briefing on Friday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said: "The virus has upe

New York, Lawyers of Ghislane Maxwell have said the British socialite, who was arrested on July 2 in accusation of assisting late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of minors, should be released on a $5 million bail while awaiting trial over risk of contracting COVID-19 in jail.

In a statement on Friday, Maxwe

Orlando, Walt Disney World in Florida is set to open to members of the public on Saturday for the first time in months, despite a recent surge in the number of COVID-19 cases in the US state.

There will be a phased re-opening of the theme parks in Orlando with a smaller visitor capacity than usual, said a BBC repo

Washington, The US has registered a new single-day spike in the number of COVID-19 cases with a total of 63,643 infections, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

Besides the record high cases, Friday also saw 774 coronavirus deaths, the BBC reported citing the data as saying.

As of Saturd

New York, New data revealed by Gilead Sciences has shown that its antiviral drug remdesivir reduces death risk of severe Covid-19 patients by as much as 62 per cent when compared with standard care alone.

This is an important finding that requires confirmation in prospective clinical trials, Gilead said on Friday

New Delhi,  Six National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) insurgents were neutralised in an encounter with the security forces in Tirap district of Arunachal Pradesh on Saturday.

Based on the specific intelligence inputs regarding presence of armed insurgents, two columns were launched by the Assam