US President Joe Biden has nominated Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, his close political ally and a former Navy intelligence officer with Indo-Pacific experience, to be the ambassador to India. The White House also announced on Friday that Biden was nominating a career diplomat, Peter Haas, as the ambassador to Bangladesh. Both of them will […]
By Siddhi Jain While travel is on hold nowadays, there’s no reason why you can’t plan your next itinerary. Washington, DC in the United States is one of the places you can explore. The District of Columbia’s two rivers, the Potomac and the Anacostia, shine brightly once the warm weather of spring and summer settles on the […]
The stage is all set for the construction of world’s third largest cricket stadium in the Pink City as the Jaipur Development Authority has allotted land to Rajasthan Cricket Association. RCA commissioner Gaurav Goyal gave the papers of allotted land to RCA president Vaibhav Gehlot for the stadium to be constructed at Delhi Road in […]
Following a 70-year effort, the World Health Organization on Tuesday certified that China is malaria free, a notable feat for a country that reported 30 million cases of the disease annually in the 1940s. “Today we congratulate the people of China on ridding the country of malaria,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, was quoted in […]
The UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Tor Wennesland, has warned that the Egypt-brokered ceasefire reached last month between Israel and Hamas remains very fragile. In this regard, the UN is working closely with all concerned parties and partners, including Egypt, to solidify the ceasefire, allow the entry of urgent humanitarian assistance […]
Australian scientists have found that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic, is most ideally adapted to infect human cells — rather than bat or pangolin cells, again raising questions of its origin. A team of researchers from Flinders University and La Trobe University used high-performance computer modelling of the form of the SARS-CoV-2 […]
Is the world headed for Cold War 2 more than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union? The contours were first visible just before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in a bitter trade war that erupted between the US and China and seemed to have taken a backseat as the world struggles […]
Damascus remains the world’s least liveable city and most of the previous ten least liveable cities remain in the bottom ten this year, including Dhaka and Karachi in the Asia-Pacific region, as per the the 2021 edition of The Economist Intelligence Unit’s (The EIU) Global Liveability Ranking. However, overall, the COVID-19 pandemic caused liveability to […]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Wednesday pledged $50 million to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to increase access to safe and affordable Covid-19 vaccines in 92 lower-income countries. The foundation also called for high-income countries to share at least 1 billion excess Covid-19 doses with lower-income countries this year to accelerate global vaccine access […]
Amazon on Wednesday announced to kick off its Prime Day in select countries on June 21-22 and support small business selling partners again amid the pandemic. The two-day shopping extravaganza will offer Prime members over 2 million deals across every category, including fashion, electronics, toys, home decor, automotive, and more, the company said in a […]