The number of coronavirus cases in India has marked significant and consecutive highest jumps over a major part of the last two weeks.

On Wednesday, the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection in India crossed the 2.07 lakh-mark, while the death toll breached the 5,800-mark as well. With this, India has now become the world's seventh worst-hit country in terms of coronavirus cases, according to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) COVID-19 tracker.

As the number of coronavirus cases in the national capital shows no signs of stopping, Delhi government on Wednesday passed an order making it mandatory for all asymptomatic passengers arriving in Delhi to home quarantine themselves for seven days.

Notably, earlier, the home quarantine period for passengers arriving in Delhi, as mandated by an advisory passed by the Delhi government, was 14 days.

Tamil Nadu has crossed the grim milestone of 25,000 total coronavirus cases, the only second state in India to do so after Maharashtra. On Wednesday, the Southern Indian state recorded a new high of 1,286 cases, while the numbers in capital city Chennai also went past the 1000-mark, with 1012 cases. The state currently has 11,345 active cases and has seen 208 deaths, of which a large number have been senior citizens and those with co-morbidities.

As protests rage across the United States over the murder of a black man George Floyd at the hands of a policeman in Minneapolis, Former US President Barack Obama expressed his support and felt that change is around the corner.

I know enough about that history to say: There is something different here, the former US President said.

The tension between India and China seemed to deescalate on Wednesday ahead of Corps Commander meeting between the two countries scheduled for June 6.

Indian and Chinese troops have been engaged in a bitter face-off in several areas along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh for nearly a month.

Five days after 4.6 magnitude earthquake rocked Delhi-NCR, another mild earthquake hit Delhi, Faridabad, Gurugram on Wednesday.

An earthquake of magnitude 3.2 (Richter scale) struck 17 km east of Faridabad in Haryana at 10:42 pm today, National Center for Seismology (NCS) said.

Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in private mode.

The lawsuit seeks at least $5 billion (4 billion pounds), accusing the Alphabet Inc unit of surreptitiously collecting information about what people view online and where they browse, despite their using what Google calls Incognito mode.

The airline industry is trying to convince passengers that air travel is safe after the government eased a nationwide lockdown to contain the coronavirus and allowed businesses to resume.

Ronojoy Dutta, CEO, IndiGo said that the airbus aircraft cabin is equipped with High-Efficiency Particle Filters (HEPA) which ensures that virus does get not re-circulated.

Telecom gear maker Nokia and telecom operator Vodafone Idea on Wednesday announced the completion of the first phase of world's largest deployment of Dynamic Spectrum Refarming technology in the country.

The Dynamic Spectrum Refarming (DSR) technology, helps in enhancing user experience by making optimal use of network spectrum assets.

The total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection in India crossed the 2.07 lakh-mark by Tuesday, while the death toll has reached the 5,800-mark as well. It is to be noted that India has now become the world's seventh worst-hit country in terms of coronavirus cases, according to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) COVID-19 tracker.

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