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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 […]
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The woman, who arrived here from Harare, had concealed the drugs in her trolley and executive bags and two file folders, a senior customs official said.
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The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 77,702,689 and 919,171, according to the CSSE.
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Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron held a high-level summit aimed at protecting the world’s oceans, with representatives of more than 100 countries. The One Ocean Summit in Brest brought together heads of state and government, leaders of multilateral institutions, shipping companies and civil society policymakers to unite in supporting the “Brest Commitments for the Oceans”, […]
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Police were called to the shooting at a home near 51st Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road. One officer was shot multiple times by the suspect as he approached to help, according to Williams.
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The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 77,608,377 and 918,206, according to the CSSE.
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New Delhi: Several users of Twitter reported issues while accessing the microblogging site briefly on Friday night. Netizens across the globe reported that they were unable to tweet, navigate on the site and even has issues while logging in to their accounts. The website ‘DownDetector’ showed an outage for Twitter at around 11 pm on […]
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London: The UK has detected a deadly haemorrhagic fever with “pandemic potential”, the country’s health officials have said. Lassa fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic illness, similar to Ebola, and people become infected through exposure to food or other items that have been contaminated with urine or faeces of infected rats. According to the UK […]
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For the fourth straight day, scores of truckers taking part in what they dubbed the Freedom Convoy blocked the Ambassador Bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario, to Detroit, disrupting the flow of auto parts and other products between the two countries.
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The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 77,437,114 and 915,349, according to the CSSE.
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California: A geomagnetic storm has knocked 40 SpaceX satellites on February 4, after they were launched to a low deployment orbit, 130 miles above Earth. Dramatic visuals of the space debris are circulating on the internet of a satellite that “lived fast and died very young,” astronomy news website Space.com reported. American aerospace manufacturer SpaceX […]
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"I am proud that Israel becomes the first country which allows UAVs to operate for the benefit of agriculture, environment, fight against crime, the people and the economy," said Israeli Transport and Road Safety Minister, Merav Michaeli.
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The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 77,258,879 and 912,208, according to the CSSE.
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Taking to Twitter, Malala talked about the hijab controversy raging in India's state Karnataka where Muslim students wearing the hijab are being barred from entering college premises.
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The British Council also entered into a MoU with Research Innovation Centre of Hyderabad (RICH) to facilitate research and innovation in aerospace, defence, life sciences and pharma, food and agriculture.
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Geneva: The BA.2 subvariant of Omicron is likely to spread globally, however it remains unclear whether it will cause reinfection among those infected with the original Omicron strain, according to the World Health Organisation. According to Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s Covid-19 technical lead, the BA.2 subvariant, which is more contagious than the currently dominant […]
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The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 77,051,222 and 908,816, according to the CSSE.
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While it’s a known fact that the internet is an ocean and new navigators entering the ocean might just get lost in the depth of it. Understanding this and in order to promote a safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, several social media platforms celebrate #SaferInternetDay on February 8, every […]
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Beijing: China on Tuesday warned the United States against a USD 100 million deal on weapons supply to Taiwan and said that Beijing will take necessary actions to protect its sovereignty. The United States has approved a possible USD 100 million sales of equipment and services to Taiwan to “sustain” and “improve” the Patriot missile […]
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Ottawa: Canada’s two main airlines have demanded that Ottawa reverse COVID-19 travel restrictions amid the ongoing protests against the vaccine mandates that has overwhelmed the nation’s capital. The current wave of protests against COVID-19 measures started when thousands of demonstrators gathered in Ottawa expressing strong opposition to vaccine mandates for truckers crossing the US-Canada border. […]
