Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden has accused President Donald Trump of having “surrendered” and “failed” the Americans in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. “What happened? Now it’s almost July, and it seems like our wartime president (Donald Trump) has surrendered, waved the white flag and left the battlefield,” Biden said in an address in […]
Gold hit an all-time high on Wednesday with futures trading at Rs 48,871 per 10 gm as the demand for the safe haven asset continued to soar with the Covid-19 global shocks and economic uncertainty hammering down business sentiments. “Gold surged to its highest in nearly 8 years on Tuesday as mounting fears of a […]
Even as Indian and Chinese militaries talk to de-escalate and disengage at borders in eastern Ladakh, Indian intelligence agencies said on Wednesday that Chinese People’s Liberation Army has brought in troops of two more divisions across Line of Actual Control at disputed areas. This will escalate the matter even though South Xinjiang military chief Major-General […]
Former US Vice Ppresident and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden has expanded his campaign team, adding Indian-American Medha Raj as his digital chief of staff, it was reported. In addition to Raj, Biden announced several new names for his almost entirely virtual campaign trail, IndiaWest news reported on Monday citing CNN as saying. Raj […]
With the Indian government announcing to ban 59 Chinese apps, millions of users were in a flux on Tuesday as some of those popular apps were still there on their smartphones and available for downloads, barring TikTok and Helo which disappeared from both Google Play Store and Apple App Store. The next step for the […]
A German man accidentally bought 28 Tesla Model 3 vehicles online amounting to 1.4 million Euros after a glitch on companys website. The person known as ‘Ballon-Man’ at online discussion forum Reddit wrote about how he and his father accidentally placed an order for 27 Model 3s instead of just one. The family placed an […]
Singapore’s top priority is to protect and create jobs in the city-state’s sustained fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Saturday. The world will be very different after the pandemic and Singaporeans must build on what they had been doing to emerge stronger, he said in the foreword of the […]
As US coronavirus infections per day surged to an all-time high of 40,000, America’s top infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci renewed his call to the country’s youth going maskless, partying on beaches and crowded indoor spaces to be conscious about their “societal responsibility” and not put the most vulnerable population at heightened risk of Covid-19 […]
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and eminent US political activist Noam Chomsky on Friday applauded the efforts of Kerala in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Both of them were speaking online while taking part in the debate series, ‘Kerala Dialogue’ organised by the Kerala government. Sen said the main reason why Kerala has done a […]
The United Nations experts have called on the international community to take collective and decisive action to ensure that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime ends violations of its international obligations and human rights of its citizens. In a statement issued by the UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR), the experts, who […]