Armenia & Azerbaijan Agree To Ceasefire: Russia’s Lavrov
Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to a ceasefire starting on Saturday to exchange prisoners and bodies of those killed in the...
Month: October 2020
Microsoft To Let Employees Permanently Work From Home
Software giant Microsoft will let employees work from home permanently if they choose to, US media has reported, becoming the...
‘Food Is The Best Vaccine Against Chaos’: WFP Wins Peace Nobel
The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to combat hunger...
India’s Coronavirus Infections Rise To 6.63 Million
India’s coronavirus case tally rose by 74,442 in the last 24 hours to 6.63 million on Monday morning, data from...
Bhima-Koregaon Case: NIA Arrests 83-Yr-Old Activist Stan Swamy
Father Stan Swamy, a prominent tribal and human rights activist was reportedly taken into custody by the National Investigation Agency...
Poet Louise Gluck Wins Nobel Prize For Literature
American poet Louise Gluck has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature for works exploring family and childhood in an...
Republic TV Among 3 Channels Busted For Rigging Ratings
Republic TV is among the three channels that are being investigated for rigging ratings for ad revenues and to spread...
India’s Coronavirus Infections Rise To 6.84 Million
India’s total coronavirus cases rose by 78,524 in the last 24 hours to 6.84 million on Thursday morning, data from...
India Declines Proposal To Test Sputnik-V Vaccine
India's drug regulator has knocked back a proposal from Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd to conduct a large study in the...
Trump Says Catching COVID-19 Was ‘Blessing From God’
U.S. President Donald Trump declared that catching the coronavirus was a “blessing from God” that exposed him to experimental treatments...
Women Creators Of Genetic ‘Scissors’ Win Nobel In Chemistry
Two women scientists won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for creating genetic ‘scissors’ that can rewrite the...
India’s Daily Covid-19 Infections Slow Down After Scaling Highs
India reported 72,049 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, dropping from the daily highs of last month, in a sign...
China Urges U.S. To Drop ‘Cold War’ Mentality
China said on Wednesday that the United States should stop its unprovoked attacks and accusations against China, accusing U.S. Secretary...
India’s Coronavirus Infections Rise To 6.76 Million
India’s tally of coronavirus infections stood at 6.76 million on Wednesday, rising by 72,049 cases in the last 24 hours,...
Delhi’s Oldest Graveyard Clears Space To Bury Covid-19 Dead
Workers were clearing undergrowth from wasteland on Tuesday to add 400 graves to the capital’s oldest functioning cemetery beside the...
India’s Coronavirus Infections Rise To 6.69 Million
India’s total coronavirus cases rose by 61,267 in the last 24 hours to 6.69 million on Tuesday morning, data from...
Trump Faces Backlash For Removing Mask At White House
U.S. President Donald Trump faced a fresh backlash on Tuesday for removing his mask when he returned to the White...
‘Thousands Shackled For Mental Health Issues Globally’
Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children with mental health conditions are living chained up in roughly 60 countries,...
FATF All Set To Decide On Pak’s Grey List Status: Report
The Financial Action Task Force is all set to decide on Pakistan’s grey list status in a virtual meeting scheduled...
Nobel Prize For Scientists Who Helped Identify Hepatitis C
Two Americans and a Briton won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for work in identifying the Hepatitis...
Face Mask Boom Has Unhealthy Side-Effects
The outbreak of Covid-19 is the best thing that ever happened to the mask industry, but it’s going to require...
India’s Coronavirus Infections Rise To 6.63 Million
India’s coronavirus case tally rose by 74,442 in the last 24 hours to 6.63 million on Monday morning, data from...
Paytm, Other Startups Vow To Fight Google’s Clout
Dozens of India’s technology startups, chafing at Google’s local dominance of key apps, are banding together to consider ways to...
“Today, I Am A Dalit”: Mamata At Kolkata Rally On Hathras
After leading a protest march in Kolkata on Saturday against what has come to be known as the "Hathras horror",...
Elon Musk Suggests India Entry In 2021
Tesla Inc chief executive Elon Musk indicated on Friday that the U.S. electric carmaker will make a foray into India...
