SEPTEMBER 20, 2020
Covid-19 cases in the U.S. steadied as deaths approached 200,000. Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said he expects the U.S. to experience “at least one more cycle” of the virus in the fall and winter.
U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the country is at a “tipping point” and more measures will be taken unless people comply with...
SEPTEMBER 20, 2020
The events that came to pass in the Rajya Sabha on Sunday over the controversial farm bills were nothing short of a Bollywood action-thriller.
It all began with the Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 being put to vote. As Deputy Chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh asked the lawmakers whether they should go beyond the...
SEPTEMBER 20, 2020
India and China are scheduled to hold a Corps Commander-level talks at Moldo, on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on Monday, on the border standoff. This will be the sixth such talks on the issue.
An official from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) is likely to be part of Indian delegation. This...
SEPTEMBER 20, 2020
The oceans have emptied over the past few months, with seagoing voyagers around the world seeking safe harbor amid fears that Covid outbreaks or restrictions could leave them stranded with nowhere to go.
Which makes the decision of one Italian family to embark on an epic adventure in a sailboat seem all the more courageous or, in the...
SEPTEMBER 20, 2020
Former president Bill Clinton slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for his 'power play' to push forward with a new SCOTUS pick following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
McConnell vowed on Friday night, hours after the death of Ginsburg, also known as RBG, to call a vote for whomever President Donald Trump nominated as her replacement....
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
Brief Scorecard: Chennai Super Kings 166 for 5 (Rayudu 71, du Plessis 58*) beat Mumbai Indians 162 for 9 (Tiwary 42, de Kock 33, Ngidi 3-38, D Chahar 2-32, Jadeja 2-42) by five wickets
Ambati Rayudu goes for the big one. - BCCI
The IPL is back. This particular season might be unusual to the point of being surreal,...
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
The Delhi Police on Saturday said arrested freelance journalist Rajeev Sharma was passing sensitive information about India's border strategy and Army deployment to Chinese intelligence. At a press conference, Special Cell DCP Sanjeev Kumar Yadav said Sharma was writing on defence-related issues for some Indian media organisations, as well as China's Global Times.
Sharma had been arrested along...
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
NASA’s Hubble telescope is known to capture some of the spectacular occurrences in the space and this time as well, it has captured dazzling images of gigantic Jupiter along with its tiny moon Europa.
The telescopic images that NASA recently released were of the monster planet when it was 406 million miles away from the Earth. The images...
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death on Friday created a Supreme Court vacancy that President Trump has vowed to fill “without delay.” He has issued four lists of potential nominees, the most recent one last week. Here is a look at some of the leading candidates on those lists.
Amy Coney Barrett
Judge Barrett, a member of the Federal Court of...
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the leader of the court’s four-member liberal wing. - Todd Heisler/NY Times
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and a pioneering advocate for women’s rights, who in her ninth decade became a much younger generation’s unlikely cultural icon, died on Friday at her home in Washington. She...
