Seattle, May 28 (IANS) Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has rebutted claims about Covid-19 health concerns at the warehouses, saying the ecommerce giant has taken this seriously from the very beginning. In the annual shareholders meeting online on Wednesday, Bezos said thanked front-line warehouse and delivery employees, saying they’ve[Read More…]
Beijing, May 28 (IANS) China has rejected the US’ request for a UN Security Council meeting to address Beijing’s proposed national security law for Hong Kong, saying that the matter was an internal one that does not concern the world body. In a statement on Wednesday, the US Mission to[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram, May 28 (IANS) It was a wait that many tipplers would like to forget as after 64 days, a few lucky ones who were able to download the new ‘Bev Q’ app and came with a QR code got their favourite brand. Contrary to expectations that there would be[Read More…]
Mumbai, May 28 (IANS) Actor Kranti Prakash Jha does an “Angry Young Man” act in the new web series “Raktanchal”. The young actor dedicates his effort to Bollywoods original Angry Young Man, Amitabh Bachchan. “I play a character named Vijay Singh. He is preparing for his UPSC exam and is[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) The Indian Olympic Association has constituted a 11-member IOA Olympic Solidarity Fund Committee, led by Delhi Olympic Association President Kuldeep Vats, to manage all activities of Olympic Solidarity concerning IOA/NOC India for 2020-21 cycle. Besides Vats, the other members in the panel are Sahdev Yadav,[Read More…]
Mumbai, May 28 (IANS) The key Indian equity indices surged on Thursday with the BSE Sensex rising over 400 points and the Nifty50 on the National Stock Exchange trading above the 9,400 mark. Healthy buying in banking, finance and capital goods indices supported the market. Around 10.20 a.m., Sensex was[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) Former India captain Rahul Dravid has praised modern-day players for coming out in open and talking about mental health. “Mental health has been an issue in sport and in cricket and it’s been heartening to see the discussion around mental health over the past decade[Read More…]
Kochi, May 28 (IANS) In these pandemic times, when the businesses are gravely affected and the MSMEs are particularly feeling the heat, a Kerala institute has come up with an initiative to help the distressed industry. The Institute of Small Enterprises and Development (ISED) has come out with a unique[Read More…]
San Francisco, May 28 (IANS) Facebook-owned Instagram is rolling out new tools for creators to make money directly from their content on Live and IGTV by bringing video ads to the platform. To begin with, the ads will only appear when people click to watch IGTV videos from previews in[Read More…]
Hyderabad, May 28 (IANS) The efforts to rescue three-year-old boy who fell into a borewell in Telangana’s Medak district on Wednesday evening proved futile as he was found dead early on Thursday. The personnel from National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) pulled out the boy from 17 feet depth around 6[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba will hold a meeting with all states and Union Territories (UTs) on Thursday on the issue of “Public Health Response” to COVID-19, the deadly virus which has infected 1,58,333 people across the country so far. The meeting will start around 11.30[Read More…]
Brasilia, May 28 (IANS) Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has faced more criticisms after his US counterpart President Donald Trump imposed a travel ban on non-American citizens from the South American country, as the COVID-19 pandemic situation has worsened. With a total of 411,821 COVID-19 cases, Brazil currently accounts for the[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) With 6,566 new cases and 194 new deaths India’s total tally of COVID-19 reached 1,58,333 on Thursday, the Health Ministry data revealed. This is the second highest number of deaths reported in 24 hours, it was on May 5 when India had reported 195 deaths[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) Despite accelerated progress over the past decade, the world will fall short of ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy by 2030 unless efforts are scaled up significantly, a new report by several agencies said on Thursday. According to the International Energy[Read More…]
Canberra, May 28 (IANS) News Corp Australia on Thursday announced the closure of more than 100 regional and community print titles as part of a major restructure aimed at cutting costs and moving to digital publishing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement, the media giant said[Read More…]
Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh), May 28 (IANS) The Aligarh police, on Wednesday, booked a local Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader, Mohammad Zahid, and 20 others for violating lockdown rules by organising a dance session on the eve of his son’s wedding. The case was registered after a video of the event[Read More…]
Canberra, May 28 (IANS) Australian authorities were scrambling on Thursday to find the source of a COVID-19 infection which killed a 30-year-old man in the remote mining town of Blackwater in Queensland state. The man on Tuesday became the youngest person to die in Australia from COVID-19, with authorities dispatching[Read More…]
Srinagar, May 28 (IANS) A major terror plot was averted in Jammu and Kashmir after the security forces recovered a car laden with an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district. The explosive laden car was said to be placed at a strategic location to target a security[Read More…]
Moscow, May 28 (IANS) The summits of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the BRICS group, which were expected to take place in Russia in July, will be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Kremlin press service said in a statement. “Given the coronavirus pandemic and related restrictions, the[Read More…]
San Francisco, May 28 (IANS) A Microsoft cybersecurity team has blocked a free Trend Micro anti-virus tool from running on Windows 10 that appeared to alter its operation and allegedly cheat through the stringent certification test for drivers. For third-party drivers, passing Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) certification test[Read More…]
Agra, May 28 (IANS) Though officially the lockdown-4 continues till May 31, shop keepers in mandis and bazaars of Agra, have geared up to resume commercial activities as soon as they get a green signal from the administration. Early Thursday, the street markets were buzzing with activity as more people[Read More…]
Brussels, May 28 (IANS) The European Commission has proposed a 750 billion euro ($826 billion) recovery fund to help the world’s largest trading bloc recover from a recession due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The money is proposed to be borrowed from the financial market and channelled to member states through[Read More…]
Canberra, May 28 (IANS) A man armed with a knife was shot dead by police in Australia’s Victoria state in front of stunned motorists on the side of a busy freeway on Thursday. The shooting occurred on the Monash Freeway, which links the capital city Melbourne’s business district with outer[Read More…]
By Durga Chakravarty New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) The outbreak of coronavirus, with many small and medium-budget films are opting for a digital release. Actress Purbi Joshi, who features in a quarantine special edition of “Metro Park”, agrees the film industry will be affected, but she hopes in a positive[Read More…]
New Delhi/Washington, May 28 (IANS) China extended reconciliatory messages to India after the US requested for an immediate online UN Security Council meeting to discuss a new legislation for Hong Kong to crush all dissent. The US mission at the UN said that China’s proposed national security law for Hong[Read More…]
