New York, Aug 6 (IANS) The NBA Board of Governors has announced that it will contribute $300 million in initial funding to establish the first-ever NBA foundation dedicated to create greater economic empowerment in the black community. The foundation is being launched in partnership with the National Basketball Players Association[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday condoled the loss of lives in a fire that broke out in the ICU ward of a private Covid-19 hospital in Ahmedabad. At least eight patients, five men and three women, were killed in the accident. “Saddened by the[Read More…]
By Arul Louis New York, Aug 6 (IANS) Twitter has censored a video showing a display of Lord Ram and the temple being built in Ayodhya as “potentially sensitive content”, while allowing without any caution a photo from a protest against Hindu shrine by an Islamic group with offensive slogans.[Read More…]
Ramallah, Aug 6 (IANS) Some parties were mediating between Israel and Palestine in an effort to revive the stalled peace process, a senior official said here. Addressing the media on Wednesday, Mahmoud al-Aloul, deputy chairman of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Movement, said that “there are many parties who are[Read More…]
London, Aug 6 (IANS) Alexis Sanchez will be joining Inter Milan on the basis of a permanent transfer, Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has confirmed. Talks have been progressing on a deal which is thought will see Sanchez leave United on a free transfer. He has been at Inter[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Scientists on Thursday explained the extreme rainfall event in Mumbai to an anomaly that will become a recurrent pattern with increasing warming of the ocean and poleward shift of the low-level jetstream that impacts the Indian summer monsoon. They say the warm ocean temperatures in[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 6 (IANS) Child actor Shubham Jha, who plays the protagonist Bulbul in the Prakash Jha-directed upcoming film, Pareeksha, says that just like his on-screen character, his father, too, works hard to pay for his education. “I hope people understand the message we want to put across, and relate[Read More…]
Washington, Aug 6 (IANS) Former US Vice President Joe Biden will not be travelling to Milwaukee to formally accept the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s national convention due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, it was announced. Instead, he will now accept the party’s presidential nomination from his home[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Microsoft on Thursday announced the general availability of its Power Platform Return to the Workplace solution in India to help organisations prepare for the return to work. Returning to the workplace will be a phased process and it will be vital for organisations to be[Read More…]
Rome, Aug 6 (IANS) Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said that he was “committed” to reopen schools next month. “I commit to the young people, to the families, to the country, to teachers, and to staff that schools will reopen,” Xinhua news agency quoted Conte as saying in an interview[Read More…]
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Mumbai, Aug 6 (IANS) The key Indian equity indices traded on a positive note on Thursday ahead of the Reserve Bank of India’s monetary policy announcement later in the day. Healthy buying was witnessed in IT and healthcare indices. Around 10.15 a.m., Sensex was trading at 37,875.68, higher by 212.35[Read More…]
London, Aug 6 (IANS) The UK government’s failure to impose stricter measures along the country’s borders and to have proper quarantines measures in place during the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak, led to a surge in the number of confirmed cases, an official report published by a Parliament committee[Read More…]
Srinagar, Aug 6 (IANS) A BJP Sarpanch was shot dead by terrorists at Vessu in south Kashmir’s Qazigund on Thursday. The Sarpanch identified as Sajad Ahmed Khandey was shot from a close range by terrorists injuring him critically. He was rushed to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.[Read More…]
Lakhimpur (UP), Aug 6 (IANS) Residents of dozens of villages have been forced to evacuate and shift to flood relief camps, after huge amount of water was released from upstream dams and barrages into the Sharda, Ghaghara and Mohana rivers. The most affected village is Raini in Dhaurahra tehsil. Most[Read More…]
Mexico City, Aug 6 (IANS) Since 2019, the bodies of 51 foreign migrants have been recovered at the Mexico-US border, authorities said. In a statement on Wednesday, Mexico’s National Institute of Immigration (INM) said that members of its Beta Group special task force recovered the bodies from a desert terrain[Read More…]
Manchester, Aug 6 (IANS) Manchester City have signed Dutch international defender Nathan Ake from Bournemouth. Ake has put pen to paper on a five-year deal, keeping him at City until the summer of 2025. The 25-year-old said he is delighted to have joined City, a club he feels offers him[Read More…]
Bulandshahr (UP), Aug 6 (IANS) Four minor girls, three of them from the same family and two of them aged 2 and 3 years, who had gone missing from Ahmadgarh town near here, were traced in Aligarh on Wednesday. Bulandshahr Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Santosh Kumar Singh said the[Read More…]
Brussels, Aug 6 (IANS) Eurostat, the European Union’s (EU) statistics agency, said that the bloc’s retail sale in June regained 99.7 per cent of the volume that it had reached in February before the COVID-19 pandemic. The seasonally-adjusted volume of retail trade increased by 5.7 per cent in the euro[Read More…]
Adelaide, Aug 6 (IANS) Adelaide Strikers have announced the signing of South Africa’s batswoman Laura Wolvaardt for the sixth edition of the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL). “I am so excited to be joining the Strikers. They are an amazing cricket team and almost went all the way to win[Read More…]
Ankara, Aug 6 (IANS) Thousands of women staged simultaneous rallies across Turkey, urging the country’s authorities to take decisive measures against gender-based domestic violence. In Istanbul on Wednesday, the demonstrators carrying the name tags of the women who were murdered by their male partners or relatives, denounced all kinds of[Read More…]
San Francisco, Aug 6 (IANS) Apple is reportedly planning to introduce iPhone 12 with magnetic positioning that will move the phone automatically to the optimal position on the charging pad. According to a report, the magnets may not only provide a “snap in” wireless charging system but might also be[Read More…]
Gandhinagar, Aug 6 (IANS) A major fire in the ICU ward of a private dedicated Covid hospital in Ahmedabad claimed the lives of eight patients, including 5 men and 3 women in the wee hours on Thursday. One seriously burnt patient is being treated while 40 other patients have been[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Actor Gajraj Rao feels the web has emerged as an important platform for content-driven shows and films but to get the right impact for big films, one will always have to return to the big screen. “I feel OTT is playing a good and important[Read More…]
By Arul Louis New York, Aug 6 (IANS) Hindus and their supporters in New York City celebrated the laying of the foundation stone for the Ram temple in Ayodhya, ignoring a ban on a video marking the occasion due to pressure from an Islamic group. About 1,000 people turned up[Read More…]
