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San Francisco/New Delhi: More than 15,000 people working in the technology sector lost their job in the month of May globally, as global macro-economic factors hit companies, especially startups. According to layoff aggregator layoffs.fyi, more than 15,000 tech workers have lost their jobs this month, reports TechCrunch. Since March 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic started, 1.25 […]
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Paris: Five per cent of the 16-year olds, or about 35,000 individuals, in France are illiterate, a report revealed. On Friday, French daily Le Figaro quoted the report published by the French General Inspection of Education (IGEN) as saying that one young person out of 10 would experience “serious difficulties in reading”, reports Xinhua news […]
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New York: Officials of New York City have announced that public schools would teach Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) heritage starting from this fall, with a focus on reducing injustice against the minority group. The city will have a pilot curriculum for all grade levels at first and introduce it to the whole school […]
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Washington: The global coronavirus caseload has topped 528.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 6.28 million and vaccinations to over 11.38 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Saturday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and the […]
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New York: India has voted for a United States-sponsored resolution to strengthen sanctions on North Korea which was vetoed by China and Russia. The US launched the unsuccessful effort on Thursday to punish North Korea which had tested three missiles on Wednesday after US President Joe Biden had wrapped up a visit to South Korea […]
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New Delhi: The monkeypox virus has spread to more than 20 countries, with about 200 confirmed cases and over 100 suspected cases in nations where it is typically not found, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. The global health body has urged nations to increase surveillance of the infectious disease as outbreaks grow. According to […]
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Uvalde: Fourth-grade teacher Irma Garcia was killed in her Texas classroom on Tuesday, massacred along with her co-teacher and 19 students. Two days later, a family member says her brokenhearted husband died. The motive for the massacre — the nation’s deadliest school shooting since Newtown, Connecticut, almost a decade ago — remained under investigation, with […]
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Washington: The global coronavirus caseload has topped 527.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 6.28 million and vaccinations to over 11.37 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Friday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and the […]
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London: Monkeypox virus may persist in the body for 10 weeks, even after the tell-tale rash has disappeared, according to a retrospective study published in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases. The finding, led by a team of researchers from Liverpool University Hospitals, is based on an analysis of the UK’s seven previous cases, who were […]
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Rio de Janeiro: Twenty-five people were killed in a police operation conducted in a favela, or marginal neighbourhood, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian authorities said. The operation by the Federal Police, the Federal Highway Police and the Military Police took place in Vila Cruzeiro in an attempt to capture leaders of the city’s largest criminal faction, […]
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Washington: The global coronavirus caseload has topped 527.2 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 6.28 million and vaccinations to over 11.48 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Thursday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and the […]
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Los Angeles: Authorities in Southern California are on high alert in the wake of the Texas school massacre that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers earlier this week. Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore said in a statement on Wednesday that they are “working closely with the Los Angeles School Police […]
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Kiev: The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has condemned the decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, which allows residents of Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions to apply for Russian citizenship under a fast-track procedure. “The decree of the President of Russia is legally null and void and will have no legal consequences,” the ministry was […]
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Texas: A student in the US state of Texas was caught with firearms outside a high school a day after a deadly shooting at a school in Uvalde killed 19 students and two teachers, media reports said on Wednesday (local time). Police arrested a suspect walking towards a Richardson high school in Texas with what […]
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Hyderabad: The four-nation grouping, Quad, agreed to deepen cooperation on infrastructure in the Indo-Pacific region and share a commitment to addressing debt issues, which have been exacerbated by the Covid pandemic in many countries. Read here all about Quad, member nations and their objective… The Quad unveiled several initiatives to counter China’s influence in the […]
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Washington: Amid the recent scare of monkeypox spreading rapidly to over a dozen countries, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has dispelled fears saying that the virus doesn’t’ spread via air as Covid-19. The CDC noted that the monkeypox virus transmission requires close contact with an infected person, CNBC reported. Although it […]
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Washington: In an emotional address following the school shooting incident in Texas, the US Vice President Kamala Harris condemned the attack on Wednesday while calling for “action and taking a stand”. “Enough is enough. As a nation, we have to have the courage to take action and have the courage to take a stand,” she […]
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Washington: A gunman killed 18 students and one adult at an elementary school in Texas in a second mass shooting in the US in the last 10 days. The gunman, identified as Salvador Ramos, first shot his grandmother, who is alive but in critical condition, before hitting Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, about 83 miles west […]
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New Delhi: The current outbreak of the monkeypox virus is primarily spreading through sex among men, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, adding that the virus is “containable”. First reported on May 7 in the UK, monkeypox has rapidly spread to over a dozen countries, where the virus is typically not found unlike some […]
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Washington: The Quad will cooperate on disaster risk reduction for extreme weather events, including through the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), the White House said on Tuesday. The Quad summit taking place in Tokyo will witness the launch of a new initiative for continuous collaboration in the maritime domain, space, climate change, health and […]
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United Nations: The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution that calls for international efforts to mitigate the current food security crisis. The resolution calls on the international community to urgently support countries affected by the food security crisis through coordinated actions, including the provision of emergency food supplies, food programmes, financial support, and increased […]
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Washington: The global coronavirus caseload has topped 526 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 6.27 million and vaccinations to over 11.44 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Tuesday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and the […]
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London: European countries will be told to prepare a vaccination plan to tackle the spiralling monkeypox outbreak, as Denmark became the latest country to be struck down. EU authorities are set to publish a risk assessment, which will advise all member states to draw up an inoculation strategy to control the spread of the tropical […]
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Ottawa: At least eight people were killed following a destructive storm that hit much of Canada’s Ontario province, which also left tens of thousands of residents without electricity. Gusts blowing at 120 km/h knocked down trees and hydro wires in the most populous province of Canada and the national capital region, Xinhua news agency quoted CTV […]
