MAY 20, 2021
A home Covid testing kit will be available in India, for the first time ever, from next week onwards at a nominal price of Rs 250.
In an advisory issued Wednesday, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) allowed the use of CoviSelf, the home testing kit manufactured by Mylab Discovery Solutions. The Pune-based molecular diagnostic firm was...
MAY 18, 2021
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) addresses reporters outside the White House after his Oval Office meeting with President Joe Biden on May 12, 2021 in Washington, D.C. McCarthy's office on Tuesday announced he would not support legislation to form a bipartisan Jan. 6 commission. - Drew Angerer/Getty Images
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday announced...
MAY 17, 2021
FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2014 file photo, people pass an AT&T store in New York's Times Square. AT&T will combine its media operations that include CNN HBO, TNT and TBS in a $43 billion deal with Discovery, the owner of lifestyle networks including the Food Network and HGTV. The deal announced Monday, May 17, 2021,...
MAY 16, 2021
Unloading oxygen canisters, a precious commodity in India, at a New Delhi hospital this month.- Atul Loke/NY Times
Failing System — NEW DELHI — Within the world’s worst coronavirus outbreak, few treasures are more coveted than an empty oxygen canister. India’s hospitals desperately need the metal cylinders to store and transport the lifesaving gas as patients across...
MAY 16, 2021
On the demise of Tashi Namgyal in 1963, his second son, Palden Thondup Namgyal, took over as the twelfth ruler of the Namgyal dynasty of Sikkim. Thondup was originally slated to be ordained as a Buddhist monk, and was trained as such till he was eleven, having been recognized as a reincarnated Rinpoche. In 1941, he was...
MAY 15, 2021
Australia's Cameron Bancroft is questioned by the umpires. - GIANLUIGI GUERCIA
Cricket Australia Sunday said it was open to examining any new information about the 2018 ball-tampering scandal after Cameron Bancroft suggested the team's bowlers were aware it was going on.
Bancroft served a nine-month ban after being caught on television hiding yellow sandpaper, which had been used to...
MAY 15, 2021
The University of California at Berkeley. - lucentius/iStockphoto/Getty Images
The University of California system will no longer require SAT and ACT scores for admission after reaching a settlement agreement, a statement from the UC system said.
UC first announced the new policy on April 1, 2020, for incoming freshman in fall of 2021, and in May of 2020 the...
MAY 14, 2021
Violence that began in East Jerusalem in April has expanded to military attacks from both Israel and Palestine. Large scale injuries and fatalities have been reported. Clashes have broken out between Palestinian Arabs and Jewish groups in Israel. The international community looks divided and readying for taking sides in the current Israel-Palestine conflict if it aggravates to...
MAY 14, 2021
Behind the decision by federal health officials to effectively end face-mask and distancing recommendations for the fully vaccinated, they said, was a mix of recent research, increasing vaccinations and declining case counts.
The guidelines now largely follow the growing body of scientific evidence on the effectiveness of the vaccines against Covid-19, especially given the current state of the...
MAY 14, 2021
Senior Citizens above 60 years get inoculated against Covid-19 at newly-started TMC's Drive-in Vaccination Centre at Viviana Mall Parking, at Thane, on May 12, 2021 in Mumbai, India. - Praful Gangurde/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
India had administered nearly 180 million coronavirus vaccine doses by Thursday, May 13. The government also said those who have taken the...
