Washington, Aug 6 (IANS) More than 110 students have been ordered to quarantine at home for 14 days after six children and a school staffer tested COVID-19 positive in a school district in the US state of Mississippi. Taylor Coombs, spokesperson for the Corinth School District, told CNN on Wednesday[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Microsoft has introduced a new Your Phone app that will help users access their Android phone apps directly from their desktops running Windows 10. With this, the users will soon be able to run multiple Android apps like Facebook, WhatsApp or Twitter side by side.[Read More…]
Brazilia, Aug 6 (IANS) Brazilian Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said that the government was considering extending an emergency economic aid program to the nation’s poorest citizens amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Brazil will face another “one or two more months of economic difficulties” as a result of the impact caused by[Read More…]
Warsaw, Aug 6 (IANS) Dutch rider Fabio Jakobsen from Deceuninck-Quickstep is in critical condition after dramatic crash on the first stage of Tour de Pologne in Katowice, Poland. The Wednesday race was preceded by the minute of silence to commemorate Belgian cyclist Bjorg Lambrecht, who died in an accident in[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 6 (IANS) Actor Abhishek Bachchan, who is undergoing Covid-19 treatment in hospital, radiates positivity despite his health condition, says the producer of his upcoming film. “It is bound to be difficult to stay in isolation, despite the solace that his family has overcome the virus. However, every time[Read More…]
Madrid, Aug 6 (IANS) Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane has sent another clear message to Gareth Bale that he has no future at the club when he left the striker out of his 24-man squad for the return leg of their last 16 Champions League tie away to Manchester City.[Read More…]
Washington, Aug 6 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has doubled down on his unsubstantiated claim that the deadly explosions in Lebanon’s capital Beirut could be “an attack”, while dismissing the Pentagon chief’s assessment. “I mean, somebody left some terrible explosive type of devices and things around, perhaps it was that,[Read More…]
Washington, Aug 6 (IANS) The US will present a resolution in the UN Security Council next week to extend an international arms embargo on Iran, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. “We’re not going to let the arms embargo expire on October 18 of this year,” Pompeo said at a[Read More…]
Seoul, Aug 6 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un convened an executive policy council meeting of the ruling Worker’s Party and ordered special aid to the border city of Kaesong, which is currently under lockdown over coronavirus concerns, state-media reported on Thursday. Last week, North Korea declared a state of[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 6 (IANS) Filmmaker Rohit Shetty is pitching in to support cine employees in Bollywood. The filmmaker, who also hosts “Khatron Ke Khiladi”, has decided to use a portion of his remuneration from the currently-airing special edition of the adventure reality TV show to support workers such as the[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 6 (IANS) Looking ahead in time, actress and former beauty queen Urvashi Rautela feels history books in the future will need to dedicate an entire chapter to the year 2020. From forest fires to the COVID-19 pandemic and now a blast in Beirut, the year has seen one[Read More…]
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Tokyo, Aug 6 (IANS) Japan marked the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Thursday, with the city mayor urging the world to unite against threats to humanity including those from nuclear weapons. Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui said countries should “put aside their differences and come together to[Read More…]
By Sugandha Rawal New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Actress Radhika Apte says she does not want to get stuck in something convenient or be satisfied, and she is not chasing fame. “I’m not here for fame. I do like the perks sometimes, but I don’t take success and failure seriously,”[Read More…]
New York, Aug 6 (IANS) US stocks rallied on Wednesday as investors pored through a batch of earnings reports and economic data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 373.05 points, or 1.39 per cent, to close at 27,201.52. The S&P 500 was up 21.26 points, or 0.64 per cent, to[Read More…]
By Nikhila Natarajan New York, Aug 6 (IANS) White House coronavirus task force advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci issued a dire warning to Americans that the coronavirus will continue to “smoulder” if people cutting across all age groups don’t hunker down and listen to public health guidance in a unified way.[Read More…]
London, Aug 6 (IANS) The Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (the Standard) launched on Wednesday, establishes the first global standard on tailings management that can be applied to existing and future tailings facilities, wherever they are and whoever operates them. Strengthening current practices in the mining industry by integrating[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Writer, columnist, filmmaker and activist Sadia Dehlvi, a prominent critic of radical interpretations of Islam who urged a holistic understanding of the religion and was also a vocal critic of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act on the ground that it discriminated against Muslims, died here late[Read More…]
Bengaluru, Aug 6 (IANS) On a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the construction of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa said it was a dream come true for him to witness the moment and went nostalgic on Wednesday. “It is a[Read More…]
Hyderabad, Aug 6 (IANS) In a major success, the police in Hyderabad have busted a major racket of stealing two-wheelers. At least 15 people were arrested on Wednesday, and 77 vehicles were recovered in an operation that was carried out by the city police. Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad City said[Read More…]
Srinagar, Aug 6 (IANS) A dozen in-house engineering wings in various departments have been abolished in Jammu and Kashmir while several wings have been reorganised to bring speed, quality and cost control in the different projects, officials said. The Administrative Council sanctioned the merger/subsuming of in-house engineering wings in various[Read More…]
Hyderabad, Aug 6 (IANS) The state Cabinet on Wednesday approved the draft policy under which the majority share of employment would be given to the local residents in industries that are established in Telangana. The Cabinet headed by Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao discussed the draft policy prepared by the[Read More…]
Dhaka, Aug 6 (IANS) Bangladesh Army chief General Aziz Ahmed and police chief Benazir Ahmed said on Wednesday that the killing of retired Army officer Sinha Md Rashed Khan was a stray incident. Both the chiefs held a joint press briefing in Cox’s Bazar. They said the incident should not[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) As the ongoing pandemic has severely impacted India’s hotel industry, the sector has recorded a 43.5 per cent fall in Revenue Per Available Room (RevPAR) for the first half of 2020 on a year-on-year basis, according to a report by JLL. All key 11 markets[Read More…]
Manchester, Aug 6 (IANS) The third session of the first day was largely washed off with only eight overs being bowled in it. Pakistan are 139/2 at the end of the day with a free flowing Babar Azam on 69 off 100 and a resilient Shan Masood on 46 off[Read More…]
