SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has asked security forces to remain vigilant amid India-China border tensions at the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
Sources on Wednesday (September 2, 2020) said that the MHA has directed the security forces to remain on high alert on the India-China, India-Nepal and India-Bhutan borders.
The Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and...
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Dr. Scott W. Atlas is neither an epidemiologist nor an infectious disease expert, but his frequent appearances on Fox News Channel and his ideological surety caught the president’s eye. - Anna Moneymaker /NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dr. Scott W. Atlas has argued that the science of mask wearing is uncertain, that children cannot pass on the coronavirus...
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Australia fell into its first recession in nearly 30 years as the nation battles a resurgence of the virus with a lockdown in its second-biggest city.
In the U.S., cases and hospitalizations continued to ease in hot spots such as California and Texas, while warnings grew of new outbreaks across America’s Midwest. Across the border, Mexico surpassed 600,000...
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
President Donald Trump, with Attorney General William Barr, speaks to the press as he tours an area affected by civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin on September 1, 2020. - Mandel Ngan, AFP via Getty Images
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump arrived in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday to survey damage from a week of violent protests over the...
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci confirmed on Tuesday that more than 180,000 people in the U.S. have died from Covid-19.
Fauci's comments come after some have claimed a new CDC update indicates only 6% of the nation's total reported Covid-19 deaths were actually from the virus, and the remaining percent died of "other serious...
AUGUST 31, 2020
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens to U.S. President Donald Trump speak to reporters following a meeting of the coronavirus task force at the White House on April 7, 2020 in Washington, DC. - Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
As President Donald Trump was painting a positive picture of the coronavirus pandemic...
AUGUST 31, 2020
A strong-willed woman, a pioneer in cardiology and a doctor with a heart of gold – this is how the medical fraternity remembers 103-year-old cardiologist Dr. Padmavati Sivaramakrishna Iyer, known simply as Dr. Padmavati, who passed away Saturday after contracting Covid-19 earlier this month.
She was admitted to the National Heart Institute (NHI) 11 days ago and later...
AUGUST 31, 2020
During the event, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar said India’s growth “has to be a lifting tide for the entire region” and there is a need to invest in the country’s neighborhood and build more connectivity projects. (ANI PHOTO.)
Against the backdrop of fresh tensions between India and China following a faceoff between border troops over the...
AUGUST 31, 2020
Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Sunday said that while Air India has been an asset, the government should not be running airports and airlines.
The minister added that he is hopeful of completing Air India's privatization process within 2020.
"Air India has been an asset and has a very good record, very trained professional people. But,...
