After angry mob in Pakistans Khyber Pukhtunkhwa provinces Karak district, attacked and vandalized the shrine of a Hindu saint in Terri area of Karak; Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KP) government has announced reconstruction of the Hindu temple, along with launching a crackdown against the attackers. Chief Minister Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KP) Mahmood Khan has issued instructions to relevant […]
Sweden has witnessed a spike in the number of shooting incidents, with the figure reaching new highs in 2020, according to a local media report. In the report on Tuesday, the Swedish Television, citing statistics from the Swedish Police Authority, revealed that by November, there had been as many shootings in 2020 as during the […]
As the country awaits the UK’s approval to the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine before giving nod for Emergency Use Authorisation to its Indian counterpart developed by Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII), a top European drug official has claimed that the vaccine is not even ready for a conditional approval at the moment. Noel Wathion, number two […]
Cyber-security firm CrowdStrike has revealed that suspected Russian hackers who broke into a series of US government agencies and enterprises via compromising SolarWinds software, attacked its network but failed to extract any information. At least 24 big companies including tech giants like Intel, Cisco, VMware and Nvidia suffered part of the SolarWinds hack allegedly orchestrated […]
The Iraqi authorities have taken several restrictive measures, including a travel ban to eight countries where the new strain of coronavirus has spread, as the total nationwide infections reached 586,503. A statement by the media office of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Tuesday said that the Council of Minister, headed by al-Kadhimi, held a […]
The Delhi High Court on Monday refused to restrain Amazon from interfering in Future Retail’s deal with Reliance Retail by writing to the statutory authority in view of the Emergency Award. A bench of Justice Mukta Gupta ruled that the statutory authorities were free to form their own opinion as per law. The bench observed […]
US President Donald Trump has presented America’s highest military decoration, The Legion of Merit, to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his leadership and vision under which India’s emergence as a global power has accelerated and for elevating strategic partnership of the two countries. Official sources said, The Legion of Merit, Degree Chief Commander, bestowed on […]
Some 620,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines are expected to arrive in hospitals across the US state of Texas on Monday, including those in rural areas. On Sunday, state heath officials said athat the second shipment of vaccines will include 159,900 doses of the Pfizer vaccine and 460,500 doses of the vaccine manufactured by Moderna, which […]
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 […]
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 […]