SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday described China as a “role model” for the developing countries to address poverty, saying Beijing’s high economic growth has brought 800 million people out of penury. Prime Minister Khan was speaking virtually at a forum on the 20th Anniversary of Juncao Assistance and Sustainable Development Cooperation being held in Beijing,...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
President Joe Biden said the U.S. economy remains strong after a disappointing jobs report, blaming a retrenchment in hiring on the spread of the delta variant of coronavirus.
“What we’re seeing is an economic recovery that’s durable and strong,” he said Friday, crediting his own policies including a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill earlier this year.
“The measures we’ve...
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Taliban fighters gather at Kabul's international airport on Tuesday after the U.S. military's withdrawal. (Khwaja Tawfix Sediqi/Associated Press)
As the last U.S. troops exited Afghanistan, at least 50 dogs were believed to have been left behind at the international airport in Kabul, according to animal welfare and rescue groups.
The Pentagon denied that the abandoned dogs were U.S....
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Protesters opposed to Covid-19 vaccine mandates and vaccine passports outside City Hall in New York last month. - Angela Weiss/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Unvaccinated people should avoid traveling during the Labor Day holiday, the director of the C.D.C said.
As Covid hospitalizations reached a daily average of 100,000 for the first time since last winter’s surge, Dr....
AUGUST 29, 2021
As India made frantic efforts to evacuate diplomatic and other personnel at its Embassy, and other Indians and Afghans over a tense two days after the fall of Kabul on August 15, among those critical to the negotiations for safe passage for the Indian convoy from the Embassy to the airport — besides the Americans — were...
AUGUST 28, 2021
Brief Scorecard: England 432 (Root 121, Malan 70, Hameed 68, Burns 61, Shami 4-95) beat India 78 (Sharma 19, Anderson 3-6, Overton 3-14) and 278 (Pujara 91, Sharma 59, Kohli 55, Robinson 5-65) by an innings and 76 runs
Ollie Robinson walks back in style after his five-for and England's win. - AP
It promised to be a...
AUGUST 28, 2021
Representational image. - Robert Pickett/Getty
On June 13, 1955, German biologist Max Renner reached Paris’s Orly airport to board a flight to New York. Renner was carrying a very peculiar piece of luggage – a wooden box sized seven by two metres that produced a mysterious hum.
The biologist, who was a student of future Nobel laureate Karl...
AUGUST 25, 2021
Do a simple test to find out if your green vegetables are unadulterated. (Source: Getty Images/Thinkstock)
"Detecting malachite green adulteration in green vegetable with liquid paraffin," FSSAI said on twitter
It can be tricky to find out whether the “fresh, green vegetables” you just bought from the market are adulterated or not. But it is extremely essential to find...
AUGUST 23, 2021
Kamala Harris hopes to reinforce US relations with allies in the region, Singapore and Vietnam. - Getty Images
When US Vice President Kamala Harris arrives in Vietnam on the second part of her South East Asian tour, she can be grateful it is Hanoi she is flying into, not the larger commercial capital in the south, Ho...
AUGUST 22, 2021
Phone fraud has soared during the pandemic. - Getty Images
Many of us now refuse to answer telephone calls from an unknown number, for fear that it could be a scam.
And we dread receiving a text message, purportedly from our bank or a delivery firm, again due to concerns that it might be from fraudsters.
A recent report...
