The US has charged four Chinese nationals with visa fraud for allegedly lying about their membership of Beijing’s armed forces, a media report said on Friday. Three of them — Wang Xin, Song Chen, Zhao Kaikai — are under arrest while the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seeking to arrest the fourth, Tang Juan, […]
The curriculum board of Pakistan’s Punjab province has imposed an immediate ban on at least 100 books with a plan of banning many more being taught in private schools for carrying blasphemous and anti-Pakistan content The Punjab Curriculum & Textbook Board’s (PCTB) Managing Director Raj Manzoor Hussain Nasir, took the decision on Thursday, stating that […]
In an interview with IANS, Adar Poonawalla, CEO, Serum Institute of India (SII) said as per the arrangement with AstraZeneca, SII will be making one billion doses of Covishield vaccine over the next one year for India and other low-and-middle-income countries (GAVI countries). “We will start producing a few millions of doses at a personal […]
People might have to take multiple doses of a potential Covid-19 vaccine to protect themselves from the disease, said Microsoft Co-founder Bill Gates. The billionaire philanthropist told CBS News on Wednesday that “none of the vaccines at this point appear like they’ll work with a single dose.” Over 150 Covid-19 vaccines are currently at different […]
The latest joint coordinated naval exercises carried out by United States Navy Carrier Battle Group with Indian Navy warships off the strategically important Andaman and Nicobar Islands two days ago would have passed off unnoticed if it was not for the signalling by the two nations. The warning of a joint operation was clearly aimed […]
Researchers have revealed that a widely used class of drugs to treat patients with hypertension, cardiovascular disease and diabetic kidney disease does not increase the risk of developing a severe Covid-19 infection as previously feared. There have been concerns by the medical community worldwide that the drugs — ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) […]
“The Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman feels the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will make an upcoming Rick Grimes spin-off film even better. During a recent panel discussion, Kirkman spoke about the film’s progress. “There’s tons of stuff going on behind the scenes. I don’t want anyone to think that we’re just kind of waiting around for […]
US-based Video meet app Zoom app has broken Chinese short video making app TikTok’s record of most downloaded app on Apple App Store. From April through June-end, Zoom was downloaded from App Store 94 million times ’40 per cent more than TikTok’s previous record of 67 million downloads, reveals data from analytics firm Sensor Tower. […]
A young Indian American TV reporter for CBS New York has died in a moped accident, according to police. Nina Kapur, 26, who was riding pillion on a rental electric moped, died on Saturday when the vehicle swerved and threw both her and the drive on to the road, police said on Monday. She […]
The 2020 edition of the Ballon d’Or has been scrapped in wake of coronavirus pandemic, organisers France Football announced on Monday. The prestigious award, which came into existence in 1956, is handed to the best player in the world every year with jury comprising of 180 individuals from around the globe. “For the first time […]