JUNE 8, 2022
Vials of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in California in April. - Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Moderna released preliminary results on Wednesday on an updated coronavirus vaccine targeting the Omicron variant, calling it “our lead candidate” to serve as a U.S. booster shot in the fall.
The firm’s researchers tested a booster dose combining the original vaccine...
JUNE 7, 2022
Fortune Most Powerful Woman Summit 2016. - Photograph by Kristy Walker for Fortune Most Powerful Women
While making the case for broader storytelling around technology and innovation, Megan Smith, who was the first chief technology officer of the United States, shared her seemingly honest thoughts on the social impact of Mark Zuckerberg and Meta, the parent company...
JUNE 7, 2022
Paytm stock has tanked sharply from the IPO price. (Image: REUTERS)
Paytm shares have fallen 71% from their IPO price in around 7 months since listing on the stock exchanges. Despite the sharp correction in stock price, analysts at JP Morgan have reinstated their ‘Outperform’ rating on the scrip. The global brokerage firm had suspended rating for a...
JUNE 7, 2022
Sunil Gavaskar was the first batter to scale the 10,000-run mountain in Test cricket and is regarded as one of the greats of the game. Gavaskar was the backbone of India’s batting lineup back in the day.
The former India captain became a household name in the broadcasting world after he bid adieu to the game.
#OnThisDay in 1983,...
JUNE 7, 2022
Activists of the environment organisation Greenpeace protest with CO2 letters illuminated with flames in front of the Brandenburg Gate against the climate crisis in Berlin, Germany, on May 6, 2021. (AP/FILE)
NEW DELHI: Carbon dioxide (CO2) measured at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA’s) Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory peaked for 2022 at 421 parts per million in...
JUNE 7, 2022
Three brothers from Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur are making international headlines, but sadly for all the wrong reasons. On Monday, June 6, the South African government said that law enforcement authorities in the UAE have arrested Rajesh Gupta and Atul Gupta for using their 'close proximity' with former president Jacob Zuma to profit financially and influence senior appointments....
JUNE 7, 2022
The Indian Mountain Foundation (IMF) has urged the Ministry of Home Affairs to open 141 peaks in Ladakh in addition to the already 120 open peaks for promotion of mountaineering and trekking activities in the cold desert region.
Honorary Secretary, IMF, Colonel Vijay Singh called on the Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh, RK Mathur and briefed him about the...
JUNE 7, 2022
The GDP growth compares to an 8.7 per cent expansion in the previous 2021-22 fiscal. - The Financial Express
The World Bank on Tuesday cut India’s economic growth forecast for the current fiscal to 7.5 per cent as rising inflation, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions taper recovery.
This is the second time that the World Bank has...
JUNE 7, 2022
Economist and ex-Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. - Hyungwon Kang/Reuters
Economists have devised a new inflation metric that accounts for modern-day spending patterns.
They found that US inflation is currently much closer to its 1980 peak than previously expected.
US inflation is running closer to its peak than previously anticipated, according to a group of economists, which could...
JUNE 7, 2022
Donald Trump at a rally in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021, hour before the Capitol Riot. - Jacquelyn Martin/AP
Rep. Jamie Raskin said the Jan 6 committee found serious evidence implicating Trump in the riot.
He said it showed worse than incitement — the charge in Trump's second impeachment.
Raskin hinted that the committee would try...
