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Beirut port's capacity to handle wheat and other bulk cereal imports has collapsed to about a fifth or less of its level before a massive blast smashed its grain silos and other facilities, a senior U.N. official said on Thursday.

He said the state government will request the University Grants Commission (UGC) to extend the existing deadline for conducting the examinations from September end to October end, and added that the toughness of the exams will also be reduced.

He said the government should call an all-party meeting and take everyone's suggestions on reviving the economy.

The Health Ministry further said that the five states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu account for 62 per cent of the active cases in the country.

Christopher Nolan's thriller "Tenet" finally arrives in U.S. movie theaters this weekend, hoping to revive movie going after a pandemicinduced closure of indoor theaters and a dearth of new content.

Party spokesman Suhail Bukhari said PDP general secretary Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura had convened a meeting of PDP leaders on Thursday, but the authorities did not allow the leaders, who are still under "illegal detention" to leave their homes.

Over the last two weeks, the average daily case fatality trajectory in the city has risen by 50%, said Secretary in the Union Health Ministry, Rajesh Bhushan, on Thursday.

A fire broke out on an oil tanker off the eastern coast of Sri Lanka on Thursday, leaving one of its 23 crew members missing and another injured, a navy spokesman said.

The direction came while the court was hearing a PIL and several intervention applications filed by lawyers in the high court seeking they be allowed to travel to courts by suburban trains amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

U.S. wireless carrier Verizon Communications Inc and Amazon.com Inc may invest more than $4 billion for a stake in India's Vodafone Idea Ltd, the Mint newspaper reported on Thursday.

Raja Singh said his official Facebook page was removed and he had tweeted on April 1, 2019 wanting to know the reason from Facebook.

Bulgarians gathered in downtown Sofia for another antigovernment protest Thursday after a demonstration the night before led to violence, injuries and arrests.

The Kremlin on Thursday rejected accusations that Russia had been responsible for the poisoning of opposition politician Alexei Navalny and said it saw no grounds for sanctions to be imposed against Moscow over the case.

Johannesburg (AP) Africa's top public health official says the rate of confirmed new coronavirus cases has fallen again, by 14% from the previous week. John Nkengasong dismisses the idea of a hidden pandemic on the continent, telling reporters that test...

EESL had ordered 10 Kona Electric SUVs in the year 2019. Further in 2020, it has ordered 100 units of Kona Electric SUV in-line with government’s mission of creating sustainable EV eco-system in India.

Europe kept record high world share markets marching forward on Thursday, while the dollar was in fightback mode and government bonds steadied after European Central Bank efforts to tame the euro.