AUGUST 31, 2020
Former President Bharat Ratna Pranab Mukherjee passed away Monday. He was 84. Mukherjee had, earlier this month, undergone brain surgery at the Army Research and Referral hospital in the national capital. Earlier today, hospital authorities said his condition deteriorated further and he was in a state of septic shock due to a lung infection. His death was...
AUGUST 31, 2020
The Galwan clash was the deadliest in 45 years. 20 Indian soldiers killed in action that took place on June 15.
The P.L.A's unprovoked attack on Indian soldiers added fuel to a long-smouldering conflict. The galwan clashes led to outrage. There were calls for a complete boycott of China in India.
Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held talks...
AUGUST 31, 2020
GDP Plunges by Record 23.9% in Q1 as India Enters Recession, Contraction Worst Among G20 Nations
India has officially entered a phase of recession, with GDP data released on Monday showing a collapse of 23.9 per cent of gross domestic product in the second quarter, as the Indian economy was weighed down by the coronavirus pandemic and the...
AUGUST 31, 2020
NEW DELHI - Remembering Pranab Mukherjee as an "outstanding Parliamentarian" and a "towering statesman", Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday said the former President of India, who passed away at 84, has left an indelible mark by his contributions in the sphere of development of India.
Taking to Twitter, PM Modi wrote, "India grieves the passing away of Bharat...
AUGUST 31, 2020
Hundreds march at a rally for Jacob Blake Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. - Morry Gash/AP Photo
President Donald Trump declared Monday that he would move ahead with a planned trip to Kenosha, Wis., in defiance of Gov. Tony Evers’ request that he stay away from the state amid raw tensions surrounding protests against racial injustice...
AUGUST 31, 2020
Scott Atlas, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, speaks with President Trump during a coronavirus briefing on Aug 12. - Jabin Botsford/TWP
One of President Trump’s top medical advisers is urging the White House to embrace a controversial “herd immunity” strategy to combat the pandemic, which would entail allowing the coronavirus to spread through most of the population...
AUGUST 30, 2020
Is Trump being outplayed on TikTok? - Photographer: Bloomberg
Imagine a bidder wanting to buy KFC, but being told the deal might not include the Colonel’s 11 secret herbs and spices. That’s effectively what Beijing has told the list of U.S. companies keen to purchase short-video app TikTok: The key ingredients may be out of reach.
At first it looked like the...
AUGUST 30, 2020
President Trump has long called investigations into his 2016 campaign’s ties with Russia a “hoax.” - Anna Moneymaker /NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Justice Department secretly took steps in 2017 to narrow the investigation into Russian election interference and any links to the Trump campaign, according to former law enforcement officials, keeping investigators from completing an examination...
AUGUST 30, 2020
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi greets the audience prior a press conference at the Institute for International Relations in Paris, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is in France as part of a five-country trip to Europe, his first since the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)
PARIS, FRANCE — China’s foreign minister defended...
AUGUST 30, 2020
An artist's rendition of Lystrosaurus in a state of torpor. - Crystal Shin/University of Washington
New evidence suggests the Lystrosaurus species that roamed the Earth with the dinosaurs went into a state of hibernation to survive what is modern day Antarctica.
The Lystrosaurus is a mammal-like animal from the early Triassic period that roamed modern day regions such as...
