In an unprecedented move, the US on Wednesday abruptly asked China to shut its consulate in Houston within 72 hours. Confirming this on social media, Hu Xijin, the editor of the Global Times, the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party government in Beijing said, “The US asked China to close the Consulate General in Houston […]
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. […]
When Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s blue eyed Minister Ali Haider Zaidi on Saturday accused an opposition Sindh Minister of sheltering a drug cartel, it was not an off the cuff political barb at the Bhutto family. In a tweet the next day, Zaidi accused Bilawal Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party (ruling in Sindh province) of […]
Microsoft has announced that it is discontinuing production of the Xbox One X and Xbox One S Digital Edition. “As we ramp into the future with Xbox Series X, we are taking the natural step of stopping production on Xbox One X and Xbox One S All-Digital Edition. Xbox One S will continue to be […]
Within three days India recorded more than one lakh cases of novel coronavirus (Covid-19) taking the tally over one million mark with over 25,000 fatalities, the Union Health Ministry data revealed on Friday. India recorded its highest spike of 34,956 Covid-19 cases and 687 deaths in the last 24 hours, pushing the tally to 10,03,832 […]
The Wall Street on Wednesday cheered the promising early results from US-based pharmaceutical major Moderna’s experimental vaccine, mRNA-1273, and solid earnings from Goldman Sachs Group. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 338 points in early-morning trading. The S&P 500 rose 1.1 per cent while the Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.9 per cent, reports CNBC. The three […]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that he is confident that the world’s free nations will join together to face the challenges from China to India and other countries in Asia. “I think that the whole world is coalescing around the challenge that we face (from China)… I am confident that democracies, […]
Etihad Airways will resume a limited number of special flights from six Indian gateways to Abu Dhabi from July 12 to 26. The announcement comes a day after partial lifting of international flight restrictions by Indian authorities to allow outbound travel. “During this period, the airline will operate services to Abu Dhabi from Bengaluru, Chennai, […]
Nearly 170 days after the first coronavirus case was reported in the United States, the world’s richest nation is plunging deeper into crisis with upwards of 63,000 daily cases, ordinary Americans are bracing for a nightmarish second half of the year, political leadership is colliding with common sense public health guidance and the coronavirus is […]
One of India’s most iconic educationists, Sonam Wangchuk, has come out in support of Tibet’s freedom from China, which he believes is yet another reason to use �wallet power’ against Chinese products. In an interview to IANS in Leh, 53-year-old Wangchuk, whose campaign �boycott Chinese products’ received overwhelming support from Indian citizens following the violent […]