May 27, 2020 08:39 AM IST Starting next week, consumers can get up to 12,000 euros from the government for buying an electric car under the “historic” plan unveiled Tuesday by French President Emmanuel Macron.
May 24, 2020 07:10 PM IST India had signed an inter-governmental agreement with France in September 2016 for the procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets at a cost of around Rs 58,000 crore.
May 24, 2020 04:00 PM IST Dozens of researchers across the globe are racing against time to come out with a vaccine for coronavirus that has infected over 53 lakh people and has killed over 3.4 lakh globally.
May 21, 2020 04:53 PM IST Christophe Gernigon, who invented the device, called the Plex'Eat, said the designs already on the market looked like booths in prison visiting rooms, so were not inviting for customers.
May 14, 2020 10:42 PM IST Nearly 90 million foreign tourists visited France in 2019, making it the most visited country in the world, according to government data. Tourism accounts for almost 8 percent of the country's 2.3 trillion euro economy.
May 13, 2020 08:59 AM IST France's death toll from the coronavirus rose by 348 to 26,991 on Tuesday, overtaking Spain to become the country with the world's fourth-highest number of fatalities after the United States, Britain and Italy.
May 11, 2020 04:25 PM IST Social distancing was the order of the day but just how to do that on public transit and in schools was the big question.
May 06, 2020 07:42 AM IST A sample taken on December 27 from a French patient with pneumonia has tested positive for coronavirus, nearly a month before the disease was first officially acknowledged to have emerged in France.
April 30, 2020 10:32 PM IST PSG had a 12-point lead over second-placed Olympique de Marseille when the season was suspended as part of French government's measures to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus last month.
April 30, 2020 11:18 AM IST The number of people in French hospitals with the COVID-19 infection fell to 26,834 from 27,484 on Tuesday, recording a 2.4% decline, its sharpest since a downward trend began 15 days ago.
April 24, 2020 08:10 PM IST Amazon must restrict deliveries in France to IT products, health items, food and pet food, the Court of Appeal in Versailles said, adding that for every delivery not meeting this requirement, Amazon would face a 100,000-euro ($108,020.00) penalty.
April 22, 2020 10:34 PM IST The latest Reuters poll, taken April 14-22, showed the bloc's economy contracting by 3.1 percent in the first quarter and 9.6 percent in the current quarter.
April 21, 2020 08:48 PM IST Tourists began swarming to the abbey and the village that arose in the shadows of its walls in the 1980s after it was designated a World Heritage Site.
April 21, 2020 09:17 AM IST "The epidemic is very deadly and is far from over," France's public health chief Jerome Salomon told a news briefing, adding that the death toll was now higher than that of the heatwave in the summer of 2003.
April 17, 2020 11:00 PM IST "We would like to make it clear that there is to this day no factual evidence corroborating the information recently circulating in the United States press that establishes a link between the origins of COVID-19 and the work of the P4 laboratory of Wuhan, China," an official at President Emmanuel Macron's office said.
April 17, 2020 07:52 PM IST After a closed hearing with Maryline Gygax Genero, the Senate said that 500 crew from the carrier itself had shown symptoms of the illness.
April 15, 2020 12:45 PM IST With this, JSPL has come to be acknowledged as one of the regular suppliers to France Railways. Similarly, Britain and Australia have expressed interest and they are expected to place orders as well
April 14, 2020 09:28 PM IST The wave of layoffs and furloughs have been massive. Companies continue to shed jobs, though most vow to bring people back into the workplace as soon as it is safe.
April 12, 2020 07:59 AM IST The French health authorities said in a statement that 345 more people had died in hospitals and 290 in nursing homes -- 635 over the last 24 hours -- to bring the total death toll to 13,832.
April 10, 2020 07:57 PM IST Restoration work at the cathedral was also halted, adding to doubts about the government's ambitious plans to rebuild the 13th-century landmark by 2024.
April 07, 2020 09:25 PM IST There will be no Easter Saturday processions this year because of the lockdown, which limits the size of public gatherings.
April 03, 2020 08:45 AM IST The French figures include only those who died in hospital and not those who died at home or in old people's homes.
March 31, 2020 10:45 PM IST The French president strongly agreed with Prime Minister Modi's view that the COVID-19 crisis is a turning point in modern history, and offers the world an opportunity to forge a new human-centric concept of globalisation, it said.
March 24, 2020 11:29 AM IST As she swaps the whiteboard for a webcam, the pandemic sweeping Europe is forcing Detemple, who teaches at the International Bilingual School (EIB), to rethink how she holds her classes
March 24, 2020 09:22 AM IST As she swaps the whiteboard for a webcam, the pandemic sweeping Europe is forcing Detemple, who teaches at the International Bilingual School (EIB), to rethink how she holds her classes.
