Tag: covid19

COVID-19: New Zealand extends lockdown by another week

WELLIGTON: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced New Zealand’s lockdown will last another week. For nearly four weeks, nonessential workers have been able to leave their homes only to buy groceries or get exercise. From next week, workers at some businesses such as construction and manufacturing will be able to resume their jobs, and some schools […]

Coronavirus: Overwhelmed Brooklyn nursing home caring for elders tolls 55 dead

NEW YORK: As residents at a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington, began dying in late February from a coronavirus outbreak that would eventually take 43 lives, there was little sign of trouble at the Cobble Hill Health Center, a 360-bed facility in an upscale section of Brooklyn. Its Facebook page posted a cheerful story encouraging […]

Australia to make Google and Facebook pay for news content

CANBERRA: Global digital platforms Google and Facebook will be forced to pay for news content in Australia, the government said on Monday as the coronavirus pandemic causes a collapse in advertising revenue. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission would release in late July draft rules for the platforms to pay fair […]

Jagan Helping Women Earn Rs 500 A Day

Amaravati: Around 40,000 women belonging to self-help groups in Andhra Pradesh are earning Rs 500 per day by making face masks for the state government’s programme to distribute 16 crore free masks among people across the state to curb the spread of COVID-19. The government’s programme to provide three masks to every citizen has given […]

Chiranjeevi Interview: ‘I am Ready To Beg For CCC’

Mega Star Chiranjeevi has shared many interesting things in an exclusive interview , explaining about the aspects surrounding CCC and the help being extended to the underprivileged in the 24 Crafts of the film industry, He shared, “It gives me ample joy in helping the underprivileged. The moment I got the idea of CCC, what […]

Why Jagan changed his background?

Have you been observing the visuals of the Jagan Mohan Reddy’s review meetings for the last three, four days? Even though the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister hasn’t conducted any press meets, the government is releasing the images of their review meetings to the I and PR department. In the previous press meets and the review […]

Why is ED targetting Thablighi Jamath Chief?

It is known how crucial role the Tablighi Jamaat religious gathering played in India’s fight with the Corona pandemic. In Telangana, about 85% percent of the cases belong to the Jamaat attendees and their contacts. Thousands of Muslims attended this event and there are foreigners who are said to be the roots of the COVID-19 […]

6000 Crores Loss for the state., Huge crisis ahead!

Six thousand crores is the amount that Andhra Pradesh has lost in the lockdown period that too in the form of direct taxes. With this amount of revenue loss from the direct taxes, the indirect taxes revenue loss is expected to be much bigger, says government sources. Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister Buggana Rajendra Prasad said […]

Cost cutting to be inevitable for big films

Corona virus has directly affected millions of lives world wide. It is indirectly affecting billions of life. One of the most vulnerable industry is the movie industry and ace director SS Rajamouli has predicted that effects of this virus could be felt in the coming years too. Telugu Film Industry will take not less than […]

Pay the rent or eat? Suddenly jobless Americans face dilemma

SAN FRANCISCO: Terra Thomas, one of the millions of Americans who have lost their income due to the coronavirus pandemic, was stuck between a rock and a hard place — pay her rent or put food on the table? “Looking at my finances, it was, ‘do I give the last little bit of my money […]