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Fifteen more people have died and at least 688 new cases of the coronavirus have now been confirmed, according to the National Health Commission. Chinese authorities have so far reported 1,975 cases nationwide. President Xi Jinping warned Saturday that China faced a “grave situation”.

Four powerful grenade explosions — three in Dibrugarh and one in Charaideo districts — rocked Assam on Sunday morning as the country celebrated Republic Day, police said. In Dibrugarh district, an explosion took place at Graham Bazar and another beside a gurudwara on A T Road, both under Dibrugarh police station.

The 2019 novel coronavirus — the newest virus spreading from China to the rest of the world — appears to have begun its infectious journey from the Hunan seafood market in Wuhan and there are indications that it is similar to the SARS virus that caused a pandemic in 2002-2003. The review, published in ‘The […]

Senior American diplomat Alice Wells has termed developments regarding the Citizenship (Amendment) Act a “vigorous democratic scrutiny”. She reiterated US’s demand for expeditious release of politicians in J&K who are in detention without having been charged with an offence as well as regular access to the region for its diplomats.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday alleged that the Centre transferring the probe into the Koregaon Bhima violence case to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) showed police had misused their powers and arrested innocent citizens. Pawar claimed that the NDA govt entrusted the probe to NIA “out of fear that the SIT would expose the […]

About 700 Indian students, mostly medical students, are believed to be studying in different universities in Wuhan and its surrounding areas. Some students managed to leave the city just before it was sealed off on January 23. Sources said that in view of the fast-spreading Coronavirus, India has requested both the China to allow Indian […]