JUNE 21, 2020
WHO's Soumya Swaminathan
Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist at the World Health Organization, is optimistic that the world will have a vaccine for Covid-19 by early next year, but warns against healthcare resource allocation to the pandemic at the exclusion of other diseases. In an interview to News18, Swaminathan says that the response to lockdown measures by...
JUNE 21, 2020
File India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, front and Chinese President Xi Jinping. - AP Photo/Manish Swarup
NEW DELHI — Tensions between Indian and Chinese troops have simmered since early May in the remote, high Karakoram mountains that separate India’s northern Ladakh region from the alkaline desert of Aksai Chin, which is claimed by India but controlled by China...
JUNE 21, 2020
Indian Army and Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) soldiers on Sunday practised yoga in biting cold on the snowclad mountains in Ladakh where the Chinese troops have adopted aggressive posturing in the Galwan valley.
Chinese Army personnel, who joined the Indian troops in practising yoga last year, were this time missing.
The security force personnel wrapped in jackets...
JUNE 21, 2020
Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan on Sunday said China back-stabbed India for its unprovoked attack on the Indian soldiers on June 15 at Ladakh resulting in the death of 20 bravehearts.
Stressing that the right to ask questions is the essence of democracy, Kamal Haasan, who founded the MNM party, said: “It is disrespecting to the army if anyone...
JUNE 21, 2020
Just like every year, a flurry of messages/emails and advertisements preceded the International Day of Yoga. But there's nothing predictable about yoga day 2020, which is celebrated on June 21 every year. Started five years ago, the day became a worldwide phenomenon with scores of people practising yoga on this day around the globe.
However, 2020 introduced new...
JUNE 21, 2020
Annular eclipses occur when the Moon -- passing between Earth and the Sun -- is not quite close enough to our planet to completely obscure sunlight
Skywatchers along a narrow band from west Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, India and the Far East witnessed Sunday a dramatic "ring of fire" solar eclipse.
So-called annular eclipses occur when the Moon...
JUNE 21, 2020
Ratan Tata took to Instagram to share a heartfelt post. (Instagram/@Ratan Tata)
Ratan Tata took to Instagram to share a motivating message about online bullying and hate spewed on the Internet. His heartfelt message has once again won people over and is now going viral. Chances are that his post will strike a chord with you too.
Taking...
JUNE 20, 2020
India on Saturday strongly rejected China's claim of sovereignty over Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh, asserting that attempts by the Chinese side to "advance exaggerated and untenable" claims are not at all acceptable.
Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said China's claim over Galwan Valley was not in accordance with its own position in the past,...
JUNE 20, 2020
Image: A rainbow appears behind the Lincoln Memorial as Fitzpatrick prepares to begin her day, coincidentally Juneteenth, with a sunrise walk in Washington (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)
TULSA, OKLAHOMA — Millions of Americans on Friday observed Juneteenth, a holiday to mark the end of slavery in the United States that has taken on a new urgency following the...
JUNE 19, 2020
US Vice President Mike Pence listens as Texas's Governor Greg Abbott and US President Donald Trump speak to the press after a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House May 7, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
Vice President Mike Pence declined to...
