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06 Feb 2021
World Health OrganizationChina granted WHO team full access in Wuhan
A member of the World Health Organization expert team investigating the origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan said that the Chinese side has granted full access to all sites and personnel the team had requested access to.
06 Feb 2021
Lashkar-e-TaibaNo indication India agreed to forgo Headley's extradition: Rana's attorney
There is no indication that India has given up on the extradition of David Coleman Headley, the Mumbai terror attack accused, his co-accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana's attorney has told a US court.
05 Feb 2021
Climate ChangeAfter pandemic warning, Bill Gates warns about climate change, bioterrorism
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has warned the world about the next disaster. Gates said bioterrorism and climate change could be the next biggest threats to humanity.
05 Feb 2021
United States of AmericaUS House votes to punish Republican congresswoman over controversial remarks
The United States House of Representatives on Thursday voted to expel Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene from two high-profile committees over her incendiary remarks.
05 Feb 2021
SpiritualityThousands of Americans participate in two-week-long Yogathon
Thousands of Americans participated in the annual Surya Namaskar Yogathon organized by a Hindu Sangha across the US to create awareness about yoga and its advantages in achieving a healthy body, mind, and spirit, according to a statement.
05 Feb 2021
CoronavirusFactors to look for when hiring a commercial cleaning company
When we talk about work productivity, we must admit that one of the most significant factors that affect the productivity of the employees is the working environment, or, to be more specific, their office.
05 Feb 2021
FloridaUS: COVID-19 deaths surpass 450K, daily death toll stubbornly high
The coronavirus deaths in the United States surpassed 450,000 on Thursday, and daily deaths remain stubbornly high at more than 3,000 a day, despite falling COVID-19 infections.
05 Feb 2021
Donald TrumpHouse impeachment managers ask Trump to testify
House impeachment managers asked former US President Donald Trump on Thursday to testify during the Senate impeachment trial, a move that was immediately described as a "public relations stunt" by his lawyers.
04 Feb 2021
PfizerUK begins world's first alternate dosing COVID-19 vaccine trial
Health chiefs in the UK on Thursday began what they have described as the world's first clinical trial of patients who will receive different COVID-19 vaccines for their first or second dose, to detect its impact on immunity against coronavirus.
03 Feb 2021
CoronavirusOxford/AstraZeneca first jab cuts COVID-19 transmission substantially: UK study
According to a new Oxford University study, the first dose of the two-dose Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine can cut coronavirus transmissions by around 67 percent and therefore, have a substantial effect on controlling the spread.
03 Feb 2021
BBCRapes, torture, sterilization: First-hand accounts from China's Uighur camps emerge
In China's "re-education" camps for Uighurs—mostly Muslim Turkic minority group—women detainees are made to face systematic rapes, torture, forced sterilizations, among other horrors, first-hand accounts obtained by the BBC reveal.
03 Feb 2021
Donald TrumpBiden signs executive orders reversing Trump's hardline immigration policies
US President Joe Biden signed three executive orders that he said would lead to a fair, orderly, and humane legal immigration system and also undo his predecessor Donald Trump's policies that ripped children from the arms of their families.
03 Feb 2021
PfizerRussia's coronavirus vaccine approved for use in Mexico
Mexico approved the Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V for use on Tuesday, just hours after the publication of early results of an advanced study saying it is about 91 percent effective.
03 Feb 2021
South KoreaSouth Korea leads in innovation, India ranks 50th
According to the latest Bloomberg Innovation Index, South Korea is the most innovative nation, marking the country's return to the top after losing out to Germany last year. The European nation has slipped to the fourth place.
03 Feb 2021
World Health OrganizationWHO team visits Wuhan research lab
World Health Organization investigators, on Wednesday, visited a research center in the Chinese city of Wuhan that has been the subject of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus.
03 Feb 2021
MyanmarMyanmar people honk horns, bang on pots to protest coup
Scores of people in Myanmar's largest city honked car horns and banged on pots and pans on Tuesday in the first known public resistance to the coup, led a day earlier by the country's military.
03 Feb 2021
Russia NewsMoscow court orders Kremlin's foe Navalny to prison
A Moscow court on Tuesday ordered Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to prison for more than two-and-a-half years, finding that he violated the terms of his probation while recuperating in Germany from nerve-agent poisoning. The ruling ignited protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
02 Feb 2021
LondonScotland Yard celebrates first-ever Sikh female police officer
Scotland Yard celebrated the 50th anniversary of Karpal Kaur Sandhu joining its ranks as the first South Asian and Sikh female Police officer, paving the way for others to follow in her footsteps.
02 Feb 2021
Pakistan NewsPakistan: Accused in Daniel Pearl murder case to be released
Pakistan's Supreme Court, on Tuesday, ordered the release of British-born al-Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the main suspect in the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.
02 Feb 2021
IndiaUS concerned by China's ongoing attempts to intimidate neighbors
In its first response to the China-India border standoff, the Biden administration has voiced concern over Beijing's ongoing attempts to intimidate its neighbors and said it was closely monitoring the situation.
02 Feb 2021
AustraliaAustralia: 30 homes estimated to have been lost in wildfire
An out-of-control wildfire burning northeast of the Australian city of Perth has destroyed an estimated 30 homes and was threatening more on Tuesday, with locals across the region told it's too late to leave.
02 Feb 2021
PfizerSouth Africa welcomes first delivery of COVID-19 vaccines
South Africa gave a hero's welcome on Monday to the delivery of its first COVID-19 vaccines - one million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India.
02 Feb 2021
NASAIndian-American Bhavya Lal appointed Acting Chief of Staff of NASA
Indian-American Bhavya Lal was on Monday appointed as the Acting Chief of Staff of the US space agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
02 Feb 2021
IndiaIndian Americans hold community vigil against vandalization of Gandhi statue
A large number of Indian Americans held a community vigil at a city park in California, where unknown miscreants vandalized a statue of Mahatma Gandhi last week.
01 Feb 2021
CaliforniaUS: Indian-origin law enforcement officer charged with staging shooting incident
An Indian-origin law enforcement officer, Sukhdeep Gill, who held the post of Deputy at Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office in California, was arrested on Friday for allegedly faking a shocking drive-by shooting incident last year, authorities have announced.
01 Feb 2021
Ministry Of External AffairsMyanmar military promises election in a year
Myanmar's military has announced it will hold a new election at the end of a one-year state of emergency it declared on Monday when it seized control of the country and reportedly detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
01 Feb 2021
Donald TrumpTrump announces legal defense team for Senate impeachment trial
Former US President Donald Trump has announced his legal defense team for his Senate impeachment trial which is scheduled to begin on February 8.
01 Feb 2021
MyanmarMyanmar leader Suu Kyi, others detained; Army takes control
The military took control over Myanmar on Monday, soon after it detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior members of the governing party, the National League for Democracy (NLD).
30 Jan 2021
PunjabFour-year-old Sikh girl joins Mensa club of high IQ kids
A four-year-old British Sikh girl has become one of the youngest in the UK to be accepted into the elite Mensa membership club of children with a high intelligence quotient (IQ).
30 Jan 2021
Narendra ModiSri Lanka: No adverse reactions so far following vaccination
No adverse reactions or side-effects have so far been reported by those who were vaccinated in Sri Lanka on Friday with Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine Covishield, provided by India, health officials said on Saturday.
30 Jan 2021
IranHuman rights NGO urges Iran to end persecution of Baha'is
A Delhi-based human rights organization, on Saturday, urged Iranian authorities to end all forms of persecution of its Baha'i citizens.
30 Jan 2021
CaliforniaMahatma Gandhi statue vandalized in the United States
Unknown miscreants have vandalized, broken, and ripped from the base a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in a park in the US state of California, shocking and outraging Indian-Americans across the country, who have demanded that the officials investigate it as an incident of hate crime.
30 Jan 2021
WuhanWHO team visits Wuhan hospital that had early virus patients
A World Health Organization team visited a hospital on Friday where China says the first COVID-19 patients were treated more than a year ago as part of the experts' long-awaited fact-finding mission on the origins of COVID-19.
29 Jan 2021
Sri LankaSri Lanka kicks off coronavirus inoculations with Indian vaccine
Sri Lanka on Friday launched its national coronavirus immunization campaign by administering the first shots to frontline health workers, soldiers, and security personnel, a day after India gifted 500,000 doses of Covishield vaccine to the island nation.
29 Jan 2021
United States of AmericaUnited States outraged over Pakistan acquitting Daniel Pearl's killers
The White House has expressed outrage over the Pakistan Supreme Court's decISIon to acquit those involved in the kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl in 2002, calling the judgment an "affront" to terrorism victims everywhere.
29 Jan 2021
World Health OrganizationWHO team to begin face-to-face meetings with Chinese experts
World Health Organization experts will begin face-to-face meetings with their Chinese counterparts on Friday in the central city of Wuhan at the start of the team's long-awaited fact-finding mission into the origins of the coronavirus.
29 Jan 2021
IndiaUN Chief lauds India's COVID-19 vaccine assistance to nations
India's vaccine production capacity is one of the best assets the world has today, UN Secretary-General Chief Antonio Guterres said as he applauded India for supplying COVID-19 vaccine doses to nations around the world to combat the catastrophic global health crisis.
28 Jan 2021
Albert EinsteinDoomsday Clock unmoved by pandemic; reads 100 seconds to midnight
Humankind remains 100 seconds away from Armageddon. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has decided the Doomsday Clock reading shall not be changed this year.
28 Jan 2021
Narendra ModiMore 'Made in India' vaccines to come: Modi at Davos
The world will see many more 'Made in India' vaccines soon, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, addressing the World Economic Forum's online Davos Agenda Summit.
28 Jan 2021
TexasTexas: Indian-origin pediatrician fatally shoots another doctor, himself
A 43-year-old Indian-origin pediatrician shot dead a lady doctor and then killed himself after taking hostages at a medical office in Austin, capital of Texas, in the United States of America.
