Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday reiterated that it is not yet safe to allow quarantine-free travel to the country, amid increasing pressure to re-open the borders earlier than the mid-2022 date currently planned for. “I’m not going to take risks with Australians’ lives,” Xinhua news agency quoted Morrison as saying to reporters here. […]
People in England, Scotland and Wales can now sit indoors in pubs and restaurants and can hug each other again, in the biggest single lifting of coronavirus restrictions since the start of the UK’s successful vaccination campaign. While bars and restaurants in England and Wales are reopening their indoor seating areas for the first time […]
Apple on Monday announced that industry-leading sound quality will come to Apple Music subscribers with Spatial Audio along with support for Dolby Atmos, beginning next month at no additional cost. Subscribers will also be able to listen to their music in the highest audio quality with Lossless Audio. Apple said that Spatial Audio gives artists […]
Polish teenager Iga Swiatek, who won the Italian Open on Sunday to add to last year’s French Open crown and the Adelaide Open this year, jumped six places on the WTA Tour rankings to enter the top 10 on Monday. The 19-year-old player is now ninth, behind American legend Serena Williams, winner of 23 Grand […]
An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale struck off Japan’s Fukushima prefecture on Friday, according to authorities. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said that temblor occurred at 8.58 a.m., with its epicentre at a latitude of 37.7 degrees north and a longitude of 141.8 degrees east, and at depth of 40 km, reports Xinhua […]
China’s Anhui province on Friday reported its third locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, according to health authorities. The case was detected in Feixi County under the provincial capital of Hefei, Xinhua news agency quoted the city-based emergency epidemic prevention and control headquarters as saying. This is the second case in Feixi and the third in Anhui […]
“Bigg Boss 13” star and model Asim Riaz dropped his debut track as a rapper on the occasion of Eid on Friday. Titled “Back to start”, Asim has written his debut song besides singing it. Asim says he had the number with him since 2015 and wanted to polish it before putting it out there for […]
Assistant Commissioner of Police, Easwaran, 52, and Special Sub Inspector, Ravi, 57, lost their lives in the fight against Covid. While Easwaran was the ACP attached to the Pallavaram police station passed away on Thursday night, Ravi lost his life on Wednesday night. With the passing away of these two officers, the total number of […]
The famous quote by Jean Hersey, “June is the gateway to summer” is perfect as regards Indian cricket teams that tour England. India’s first ever Test match was played at Lord’s, London, on June 25, 1932. On that very date 51 years later, India won the World Cup at the same venue. These two landmark […]
A team of US researchers has found that delaying the second dose of Covid-19 vaccines, at least for people aged under 65, could result in up to 20 per cent lower mortality, but only under certain conditions. These conditions include a one dose vaccine effectiveness (efficacy) of 80 per cent or higher and vaccination rates […]