Pakistan captain Babar Azam and opener Imam-ul-Haq have been ruled out of the first Test of the two-match series against New Zealand starting Saturday, the Pakistan Cricket Board announced on Monday. In Babar’s absence, Mohammad Rizwan will captain the Pakistan side at the Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui. Babar had fractured his right thumb a […]
In a damning report, researchers from Canada-based Citizen Lab have revealed that the Pegasus spyware, developed by Israel-based NSO Group, compromised iPhones of dozens of journalists. In July and August this year, government operatives used NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware to hack 36 personal phones belonging to journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera. The […]
Amitabh Bachchan has shared a funny post on how to protect the upcoming year 2021 from evil. Amitabh, an avid social media user, posted an Instagram image featuring the numeric 2021, with lemon and green chillies — something many believe helps ward off evil. Alongside the image, Amitabh wrote in Hindi: “Do Hazaar bees ke […]
As America begins a historic vaccination campaign, the US Food and Drug Administration posted a preliminary analysis confirming the safety and effectiveness of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Moderna in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, bringing it ever closer to an emergency use authorisation. If Moderna’s vaccine is approved, it will become the […]
Former Australia captain Ian Chappell said on Tuesday that the Indian team would need a huge group of players going forward as the bubble fatigue could kick in. The India players have been on the road since September, playing the IPL in a bio-bubble and then straightaway flying to Australia where they again underwent quarantine […]
Even as lean volume season is about to commence globally, analysts predict consistent foreign fund inflows to further boost India’s equity indices in the short-to-medium term. Market observers cite expectations of a massive US stimulus, along with record low global interest rates as well as easy monetary policy being followed by international central banks as […]
In a explosive data leak, around two million Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members who got secretly embedded in some of the world’s biggest companies, banks, media groups, universities and government agencies, have been exposed. ‘The Australian’ newspaper obtained the leaked database which apart from the names of around two million CCP members, has their party […]
Fan pages dedicated to gangster Vikas Dubey have started disappearing at an alarming speed after the Kanpur police took cognizance of the same. Of the multiple fan pages, eulogizing the gangster, barely two remain on social media now. According to Kanpur (rural) Superintendent of Police Brijesh Kumar Srivastava, the police learnt about the Vikas Dubey […]
Cloud major Oracle has announced to move its California-based headquarters to Austin, Texas and cited flexibility of employee work as the key reason behind the decision. The decision came a day after the company posted revenues of $9.8 billion in its fiscal second quarter, a growth of two per cent (on-year) and Cloud services and licence […]
Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have developed a new online calculator for estimating the individual and community-level risk of dying from Covid-19. The study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, revealed that the calculator will be useful to public health authorities for assessing mortality risks in different communities, and for prioritizing certain groups for vaccination […]