Panaji, Amid growing unease over inability of food and essential items in Goa and the state government's decision to give central paramilitary forces a "free hand" to punish curfew violators, several voices on Twitter have attempted to highlight the plight of a population which has been facing a lockdown as a food

Mumbai/New Delhi, As several senior Congress leaders including Shashi Tharoor and Kapil Sibal attacked the Centre for its inept handling of the COVID-19 threat and the exodus of the migrant labourers, party leader Milind Deora said that this is no time for politics.

"Now it's not time for petty and partis

Colombo, A curfew currently in force in Sri Lanka's Colombo, Gampaha, Kalutura, Puttalam, Kandy and Jaffna districts would continue until further notice due to the rising number of coronavirus cases in the country, the Presidents Media Division (PMD) said on Sunday.

In all other districts across the count

Dhaka, The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) has extended ban on all domestic flights and almost all international flights to April 7 amid a shutdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

CAAB spokesman Mohammad Sohel Kamruzzaman told bdnews24.com on Saturday that they have extended the ban by a week.

London, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has said that domestic abuse victims were still allowed to leave their homes to seek help despite restrictions on people's movements imposed by the British government due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was reported on Sunday.

Writing in the Mail on Sunday, Patel said the

London, The UK's Prince Harry and his wife Kate Middleton have given their support to a campaign to protect people's mental health during the coronavirus pandemic in the country, a media report said on Sunday.

The campaign launched by the Public Health England (PHE) encourages people to keep in contac

London, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman who was sentenced to five years in jail in Tehran for alleged spying, has had her temporary leave from prison in extended by two weeks, her husband has said.

The 41-year-old was released from Evin prison on March 17 because of the coronavirus outbreak, the

London, As the coronavirus outbreak intensifies across the globe as well as in the UK, British experts have made stark warnings about the impact of COVID-19 on local authorities.

A major increase in mortality rates and staff absences will mean a struggle to issue death certificates, leading to a bottleneck in buri

Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival Benny Gantz wrapped up an all-night meeting on Sunday in terms of a unity government, which they were hoping to finalize later in the day, a media report said here.

A joint statement said they to reached "understandings and significant pr

Bangkok, A prison in Thailand was set ablaze on Sunday following a riot between inmates over the coronavirus pandemic, police said.

About 100 inmates staged the riot in the prison and set it ablaze in downtown area of Buriram province, about 390 km northeast of Bangkok, Xinhua news agency quoted deputy National Po