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London: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing “mild cold-like symptoms”, Buckingham Palace said on Sunday. The 95-year-old monarch remains at her Windsor Castle residence and is expected to carry out light duties over the next few days. “She will continue to receive medical attention and will follow all the […]
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Berlin: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Sunday accused Russia of “planning a full-scale attack on Ukraine” under a false pretext, according to media reports. “No troops are being withdrawn, as Russia says, but new troops are being added,” Stoltenberg told German public broadcaster ARD, reported Sputnik News Agency. He further raised concerns about the civilians […]
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Washington: The global coronavirus caseload has topped 422.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.88 million and vaccinations to over 10.34 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Sunday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and the death […]
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Kyiv: Spiking tensions in eastern Ukraine are heightening Western fears of a Russian invasion and a new war in Europe, with US President Joe Biden saying he’s “convinced” that Russian President Vladimir Putin has made the decision to invade. NATO countries fear that the volatile east, which has seen intense shelling in recent days and […]
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The Felicity Ace ship was heading from Germany to a port in Rhode Island, the US, when it issued distress signals this week.
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The High Commission has been approached by several students from India who were enrolled in the three institutions run by Rising Phoenix International Inc, namely, M College H Montreal, CED College in Sherbrooke and CCSQ College in Longueuil.
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The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 78,372,010 and 933,808, according to the CSSE.
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Three partients who had cancer and HIV, were completely cured of HIV through experimental stem cell transplantation technique
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San Francisco: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has slammed the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), saying the agency is targeting him and stifling his free speech. Musk’s attorneys made the allegations in a letter to Judge Alison Nathan, who oversaw the 2018 settlement with the SEC over a controversial tweet by Musk that […]
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Moscow: The US Senate, on Thursday night, unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution in support of independent and democratic Ukraine against Russia’s possible invasion. “The Senate reaffirms unwavering United States commitment to support the continuing efforts of the Government of Ukraine to restore its territorial integrity by providing political, diplomatic, and military support, including additional lethal […]
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Ottawa: The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), a non-profit organization, initiated legal proceedings against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau government over its decision to invoke the Emergencies Act following mass protests against mandatory vaccinations, according to CCLA representatives, who held a presser on Thursday. “The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has spoken out loudly against this declaration […]
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Kabul: The US Central Command (Centcom) chief Gen Kenneth McKenzie on Thursday expressed concerns about the presence of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Afghanistan. In an interview shared on Facebook by the US Central Command – Dari/Pashto, McKenzie said that America is still “sorting out what is going to happen” since the Taliban came into […]
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San Francisco: If you can’t think of leaving the pristine world of Disneyland theme park resorts, the company is now planning to build villas, condos and housing complexes clustered around a 24-acre “grand oasis” in the US. The company has announced a new business division called “Storyliving”, with building a community of 1,900 housing units […]
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Toronto: Over 2,000 Indian students, who face an uncertain future after three Montreal colleges closed last month by declaring bankruptcy, have demanded intervention by the Canadian government to give them justice. The CCSQ College, M. College, and CDE College had collected millions of dollars in tuition fees from these students before closing. The students, many […]
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Seoul: About 40 firefighting helicopters and more than 1,100 personnel resumed operations to extinguish a wildfire in South Korea’s coastal county of Yeongdeok on Thursday as the blaze remains uncontained for the second consecutive day. The fire started on a mountain in Yeongdeok, about 350 km southeast of Seoul, on Tuesday, reports Yonhap News Agency. […]
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The units of the Southern Military District, which have completed participation in tactical exercises at the test sites of the Crimean Peninsula, are heading to the points of permanent disposition by rail.
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The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 78,036,352 and 925,438, according to the CSSE.
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Kabul: A Taliban delegation headed by acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi met envoys of the Gulf states in Doha during which the two sides held discussions on a number of issues, including political and economic relations, as well as humanitarian aid, according to the Foreign Ministry in Kabul. In a statement after the meeting […]
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Ottawa: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday declared a public order emergency to support provinces in ending the ongoing blockades caused by truck convoy protests. Trudeau said in a press conference that he invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canada’s history to give the federal government extra and “temporary” powers to […]
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Washington: The global coronavirus caseload has topped 413.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.82 million and vaccinations to over 10.22 billion, according to 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 death […]
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San Francisco: Former Amazon employee Rohit Kadimisetty has been sentenced to 10 months in prison with a fine of $50,000 for a fraud and bribery scheme targeting the e-commerce giant’s online Marketplace. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) said in a statement that Kadimisetty, 28, of Northridge, California, pleaded guilty to conspiracy in September 2021. […]
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Nicosia [Cyprus]: The Turkish government, under autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has been suppressing press freedom in the country and has been exercising almost complete control of the Turkish mass media for many years, but recently it has embarked on an attempt to control what foreign media report about developments in Turkey. Last week, the […]
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Washington: The global coronavirus caseload has topped 411.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.81 million and vaccinations to over 10.19 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Monday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and the death […]
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Hyderabad: Just when the Omicron variant-driven Covid third wave is fading away, researchers at the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) have said they are officially monitoring a new Covid variant Deltacron, a hybrid of the Delta and Omicron variant. In fact, the UKHSA said they have detected the new variant in a patient who […]
