Новости за 19.05.2020

Cricket Australia furloughed about 80% of its staff and said it had suffered a A$20 million ($13 million) fall in revenue due to COVID-19, despite the pandemic hitting at the end of the season.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s wife Aaliya Siddiqui recently sent a legal notice to the actor, seeking divorce and ending their 10 year long married life. Aaliya lawyer Abhay Sahai confirmed that the same had been shared with the actor on May 7 via email and WhatsApp and that Nawazuddin is expected to respond to it in 15 days. “It is all happening by electronic means, it is a very much a legally acceptable way of communicating. So we have sent the notice through WhatsApp and email and even Aaliya has sent it on May 13. Читать дальше...

After spending almost two months indoors due to the lockdown, India's top sprinter Dutee Chand on Monday found the going tough as she resumed preparation to qualify for the now-postponed Tokyo Olympics. Dutee reached the venue early and started her training along with fellow Odisha athlete Amiya Kumar Mallick, the national record holder in men's 100m.

Lancashire, who chose not to follow other counties in furloughing players during the COVID-19 crisis, have announced their highest-ever annual turnover of £34 million ($41 million).

Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday morning asked Congress to hand over 1,000 buses to the state government. 500 buses are to be handed over to district magistrate of Ghaziabad and the other 500 to the district magistrate of Gautam Buddha Nagar.

A professional sportsperson is like a racehorse. "How long can you keep a racehorse locked up? The horse has to run because that's the only thing it knows," says India's bowling coach Bharat Arun. The same goes for a professional athlete in his/her prime. All they want is to play. Indian team is looking forward to returning to training and skill-based activity.

A team which began contact training, large group training or which held longer sessions could gain an advantage over other clubs, which is why the league is going down the inspection route.

As per the ministry of health and family welfare, it took India 64 days to report 100 to 100,000 cases. India crossed the 100,000 mark after eight weeks into the lockdown and a death toll of over 3,000. In the US, coronavirus infection cases increased from 100 to 1,00,000 in 25 days, while it took 30 days for the cases to reach the 1 lakh-mark in Spain.

The major championship was originally set for June 18-21 at Winged Foot, and postponed as part of the major revision of the international golf calendar in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

The ministry of labour & employment has implemented the decision to cut employees' provident fund (EPF) contributions to 10 per cent from the existing 12 per cent for three months till July. This would increase 4.3 crore organised sector employees' take home pay and reduce the liability of 6.5 lakh employees reeling under liquidity crunch under lockdown to contain COVID-19.

Indian captain Virat Kohli would walk into any world XI today. But he once failed to make the cut for a Delhi junior team because his father refused to pay a bribe. "He told my father while I had the merit, a little extra (bribe) was needed to confirm my selection," said Virat in a web chat with football captain Sunil Chhetri. Virat reminisced he felt broken.

Maharashtra, Delhi and Rajasthan have seen cases rise, while Tamil Nadu, Punjab seem to have flattened the curve. A look at how different states are performing

Ladies from Taarak Mehta..., Jennifer Mistry Bansiwala, Ambika Rajankar and Sonalika Joshi in an interview with ETimes TV had once revealed about Disha's funny side.

A drug being tested by scientists at China's prestigious Peking University could not only shorten the recovery time for those infected with coronavirus but even offer short-term immunity from the virus, researchers say. The drug has been successful at the animal testing stage, said, researchers. China already has five potential vaccines at the human trial stage.

Washington suspended funding to the WHO in mid-April, accusing it of being too close to Beijing and covering up and mismanaging the coronavirus pandemic.

India has about 7.1 cases per lakh population whereas the average of the whole world is 60 cases per lakh population, the health ministry said comparing the incidence of Covid-19 with other countries that have reported a large number of cases. Covid-19 fatality rate per million population in Gujarat and Maharashtra was more than four times that of the national average.

Indian captain Virat Kohli would walk into any world XI today. But he once failed to make the cut for a Delhi junior team because his father refused to pay a bribe. "He told my father while I had the merit, a little extra (bribe) was needed to confirm my selection," said Virat in a web chat with football captain Sunil Chhetri. Virat reminisced he felt broken.

The first coronavirus vaccine to be tested on people in the US appears to be safe and able to stimulate an immune response against the virus, its manufacturer, Moderna announced on Monday. The findings are based on results from the first eight people who each received two doses of the vaccine, starting in March, and their bodies were able to make antibodies.

With the cyclone Amphan over Bay of Bengal intensifying into a ‘super cyclonic storm’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reviewed response preparedness as well as evacuation plans of disaster management authorities ahead of its landfall close to Sundarbans on Wednesday afternoon-evening. The super cyclonic storm is expected to have windspeeds of 230-240 kmph gusting to 265 kmph.