Tag: UN
World Book Day Celebrated Online Amid Coronavirus Lockdown: Unesco
The coronavirus pandemic and the global response to it have severely limited public celebration of this year's World Book Day but online activities continued to promote the power of reading which the UN believes should be leveraged more than ever at a time of lockdown, the Unesco said.....
Mithun Chakraborty's Father Passes Away, Actor Stuck In Bengaluru
Bollywood star Mithun Chakraborty's father breathed his last in Mumbai on Tuesday, but the veteran actor is currently stranded in Bengaluru owing to the ongoing coronavirus lockdown.....
BJP Continues To Spread Communal Virus And Hatred: Sonia Gandhi
Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday lashed out at the BJP alleging that the party is spreading communal virus in the society when the need is to take coronavirus unitedly, while she applauded the success story of fighting Covid-19.....
Pak Receives $1.39bn From IMF To Cope With Pandemic
Pakistan has received an emergency loan of $1.39 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, pushing the countrys foreign currency reserves apparently to a one-month high above $12 billion, the media reported on Thursday.....
We Are Very Close To A Vaccine: Trump
US President Donald Trump while addressing the daily White House coronavirus briefing said "we are very close to a vaccine", after noting vaccine trials taking place in the US, Germany, the United Kingdom and China.....
Coronavirus Killed By Sunlight, Warmer Temperatures, Humidity: White House
Sunlight kills coronavirus while warmer temperatures and humid weather significantly damage the virus, measured in terms of the virus' half life or the time it takes to cut its potency in half, according to the latest breakthrough research from the US Department of Homeland Security's most advanced bio containment lab, released at the White House here on Thursday.....
Franklin Templeton India Shuts 6 Credit Funds Amid Covid Crisis
Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund on Thursday announced it was closing six of its credit funds due to liquidity issues amid the coronavirus crisis. ....
Urvashi Rautela's Facebook Account Hacked
Urvashi Rautela's Facebook account has been hacked, the actress informed on Twitter. She warned fans not to respond to posts originating from her Facebook account.....
PGI-Chandigarh's Youngest Corona Patient Cured
With the discharge of a 11-month-old girl, the youngest coronavirus patient of Chandigarh, and her mother, here on Sunday, the number of patients declared cured and discharged from the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research's (PGIMER) Covid hospital rose to nine.....
RBI Comes Out With 'Special Liquidity Facility' For Mutual Funds
To ease liquidity pressures on Mutual Funds, the Reserve Bank of India on Monday decided to open a special liquidity facility (SLF-MF) worth Rs 50,000 crore.....
