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Coronavirus: Lancashire Cricket Club CEO says safety must be guaranteed

We have to answer questions about safety first – Lancashire CCC’s Daniel Gidney

Daniel Gidley, chief executive of Lancashire Cricket Club, is in no doubt of the number of challenges they face. “People use the word unprecedented but we are in genuinely uncharted waters for sports clubs and cricket clubs in particular where you don’t have a season starting as it normally would,” he said.

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Several packages would be announced to jumpstart economy: Principal economic advisor Sanjeev Sanyal

As part of India Today’s e-Conclave session Jumpstart India, India Today TV spoke with Principal Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Finance Sanjeev Sanyal to get a sense of what needs to be done to revive the economic activity and bounce back from corona coma. With every sector in decline, where does the government aims to deploy its limited financial resources? Sanjeev Sanyal explains:

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China warily takes a holiday from virus anxiety

With optimism and a heavy dose of caution, millions of Chinese hit the road or visited newly re-opened tourist sites on Friday for an extended national holiday in a post-coronavirus confidence test.

Officials have cast the five-day Labour Day observance as an opportunity to ease pent-up travel demand in the country where the pandemic emerged and which was first to impose stifling mass…

Huawei Watch GT 2e Price in India Tipped By Flipkart Ahead of Official Launch

Huawei Watch GT 2e is seemingly all set to launch in India soon. But ahead of its official launch, the new smartwatch by the Chinese tech giant has surfaced on Flipkart with India pricing details. The Huawei India site has a dedicated listing for the Watch GT 2e as well. To recall, the Huawei Watch GT 2e was unveiled alongside the Huawei P40-series phones in March. The smartwatch is touted to…

Tamil Nadu Police enforces Section 144 to further strengthen lockdown 3.0

This announcement comes hours after the Central government extended the lockdown till May 17.

A health worker collecting samples for a swab test in Chennai on April 22 (Photo Credits: PTI)

In an effort to further strengthen the lockdown, the Tamil Nadu police on Friday said that Section 144 will be strictly adhered to across the state and anyone found in violation will face legal…

China journalist jailed as free-speech clampdown intensifies

A journalist who had worked for some of China’s most powerful propaganda outlets has been jailed for 15 years after being accused of attacking the ruling Communist Party, court documents showed.

The sentence handed down on Chen Jieren is one of the harshest moves yet against free speech by China’s government under President Xi Jinping, who has muzzled the press and ordered Chinese media outlets…

Fortnite World Cup 2020 and Dota 2 International Cancelled Over Coronavirus Pandemic

Fortnite World Cup, the popular e-sport event, has been cancelled this year owning to the coronavirus pandemic. The development was announced by the Fornite developer, Epic Games, in a series of tweets on Thursday. The company also said that all physical Fortnite events will be held online for the rest of the year. Epic games via Fortnite Competitive Twitter account added that the company will…

Front-line work during pandemic falls on America’s women, minorities

As America tentatively emerges from weeks of lockdowns, the pandemic has taken its toll on workers who have been on the front lines all along. They have been packing and delivering supplies, caring for the sick and elderly, and keeping streets and buildings clean. They have also watched their co-workers fall ill. Thousands have gotten sick themselves. Many have died.

The burden has been borne…

For Cloud Giants, Usage Soars but Tech Investment Delays Hobble Revenue Growth

As lockdown orders force billions of people to work, learn and play from home during the novel coronavirus outbreak, usage has surged for the cloud computing services that power video conferencing, streaming television and online games.

The world’s three leading cloud services providers – Amazon’s Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s Azure and Alphabet’s Google Cloud– have all seen demand for their…

Coronavirus: Buying PPE online for care sector ‘like the Wild West’

Image caption Tracy Dykes says carers “need to be geared up” to protect their clients

From personal care to meal preparation, every day many thousands of vulnerable people depend on receiving care in their own homes.

Often it is provided by domiciliary carers from private companies who make several visits a day, but…

Nanded gurdwara closed, 91 more Punjab pilgrims test positive

Local authorities sealed Nanded’s Hazur Sahib gurdwara on Friday, hours before Punjab reported that 91 more people who returned from the shrine in Maharashtra had tested positive for coronavirus.

So far, 197 pilgrims out of the 3,500 brought back from the Maharashtra gurdwara, among the holiest sites in Sikhism, have contracted the infection, according to authorities in Punjab.

The returning…

Contrary to Intel, President Trump speculates China released coronavirus in lab ‘mistake’

President Donald Trump has speculated that China could have unleashed the coronavirus on the world due to some kind of horrible “mistake,” and his intelligence agencies said they are still examining a notion put forward by the president and aides that the pandemic may have resulted from an accident at a Chinese lab.

Trump even suggested Thursday that the release could have been intentional.

The…

How to Recover Deleted Photos, Videos From Google Photos on Mobile, Web

Google Photos is one of the best free photo backup services available online. If you’ve ever accidentally deleted photos from Google Photos, there is a way to recover it. You can easily recover deleted photos on Google Photos if you follow the steps described below. Google Photos allows you to access photos stored on a phone as well as on the web. But what happens if you accidentally delete…

Coronavirus: Target reached as UK tests pass 100,000 a day

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Media captionTesting will “help us to unlock the lockdown”, Matt Hancock says

The UK deployed more than 122,000 coronavirus tests on the last day of April, passing the government’s target, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.

Mr Hancock said the target of 100,000 tests per day was an “audacious goal”, but testing was necessary “for…