'"The end" depends on two things.' 'Either you develop a vaccine which is effective or if you have a drug, you can terminate this infection very quickly.' 'Otherwise, you have to depend on herd immunity.' 'I think it should happen earlier. Far earlier, than we can imagine or achieve 'herd immunity'.'
Here's a recap of moments captured in India in the past 24 hours.
African-American George Floyd's death on May 25 has sparked civil unrest that has since spread nationwide.
Lobbying on the Hill is time consuming and cumbersome, but very effective to influence US government policies, asserts Ambassador T P Sreenivasan, deputy chief of mission at the Indian embassy in Washington, DC after the 1998 nuclear tests and during the Kargil War.
'Keeping Kashmir out of the informal summit does not mean that they have given up their strategic interest.'
'I had my own mistakes but now I want to move towards the future. I don't want to go into those things now, I had my own sins and mistakes'
'In India, a really popular and well-entrenched leader is not defeated by a rival.' 'Such a leader has to defeat himself,' observes Shekhar Gupta.
A veteran of anti-insurgency operations, Head Constable Sanjewan Singh was martyred with Colonel M N Rai in Kashmir. He leaves behind a pregnant wife and a three-year-old son.
The ex-army chief is facing a slew of court cases after returning from five years of self-exile in Dubai.
The bodies of the victims of helicopter crash, including ambassadors of Norway and the Philippines and wives of Indonesian and Malaysian envoys to Pakistan, were brought to Islamabad on Saturday from the site of accident.
An 11-year-old boy succumbed to burn injuries after he was set on fire in a high security military area at Mehdipatnam in Hyderabad.
A 25-year old army jawan on Thursday committed suicide by shooting himself with his service riffle inside the Fort St.George in Chennai, police said.
The PM will meet Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj on his first ever visit to the country.
A claymore mine exploded as the vehicles crossed the Rukmani Devi junction along the Colombo-Negombo road. Dassanayake, Minister for Nation Building, and two others were initially admitted to the Intensive Care Unit with serious injuries, but the minister later succumbed to his injuries, officials said.
A jawan of the Special Task Force was killed and two others were injured when Maoists fired at them in Bihar's Jamui district in the wee hours of Friday.
Stepping up relief and rescue operations in quake-hit Nepal, India on Sunday deployed over two dozen aircraft and choppers along with nearly 1000 trained personnel and said the situation in the Himalayan nation was "very, very serious".
More than 8.5 million troops perished in World War I, which ended 100 years ago this Sunday. Fighting ended with an armistice signed on November 11, 1918. As the world pays tribute to the fallen, here are rare and unseen photographs that show the daily life of soldiers in the trenches, destruction of towns and military leaders during the World War I as the world marks the centenary year of the mega war, which began in 1914. The photos are from a collection of hundreds of glass plates taken by an unknown photographer left behind by a viscount (nobleman) in the French army.
The latest clash came as the Red Cross pulled its staff away from frontlines dividing Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tigers elsewhere in the island's north amid an escalation of fighting.
A Hawker Hunter jet erupted into a massive fireball and sent billows of thick black smoke into the air after it plunged while performing in the Shoreham Airshow near Brighton in southern England.
