Mumbai, Indian equity indices surged on Thursday morning with the BSE Sensex gaining over 1,100 points.

The rise in the stock market was in line with the gains in the Asian indices. Healthy buying in finance and banking stocks also supported the domestic indices.

At 10.12 a.m., Sensex was trading at

San Francisco, The novel coronavirus pandemic can wipe out more than $44 billion in global ad revenue for the tech giants Facebook and Google in 2020 as digital advertising runs dry, a new report has predicted.

According to global investment bank and financial services company Cowen & Co., Google's total n

Dhaka, Bangladesh has announced a stimulus package of 50 billion taka ($5.9 million) to help export-oriented industries to counter the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic ar home and abroad.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made the announcement in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday night on the ev

Dehradun, The Uttarakhand government will extend life insurance facility to officials involved in the fight against novel coronavirus in the hill state. Also, authorities are mulling many other facilities for them.

Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat reiterated his government's commitment to fight coronavirus

New Delhi, With the Indian government imposing a nationwide 21-day lockdown to combat COVID-19, leading tech giant Apple's manufacturing partners have temporarily shut manufacturing in India till further notice from the government.

Apple's manufacturing partners Foxconn and Wistron have temporarily closed

Madrid, The number of coronavirus deaths in Spain has surpassed China, where the pandemic originated last December, to become the second worst-hit country in terms of fatalities after Italy.

According to update by the Washington-based John Hopkins University, Spain has recorded a total of 3,647 deaths, while the d

London, A UK court has denied bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is fighting extradition to the US, after his attorneys expressed concerns that he would be at particular risk if he contracted the novel coronavirus in prison.

On Wednesday, Judge Vanessa Baraitser of the Westminster Magistrates Court reje

Canberra, The Australian Army is preparing to deploy reservists to assist with the Australian Defence Force's response to the coronavirus pandemic, a media report said on Thursday.

The Guardian Australia on Thursday published an email sent by Carmen Sieger, the acting director of the directorate of contingent

Geneva, Calling it "a second window of opportunity", the chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries to use this critical window now to suppress and stop the further transmission of the deadly coronavirus.

This window of opportunity was created by those countries and regions which introd

Islamabad, While reiterating his hesitance in imposing a full-scale lockdown in Pakistan, Prime Minister Imran Khan urged the country's leaders to "discuss and reassess" their strategies in order to find a way to tackle the situation brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, it was reported on Thursday.