MUMBAI: India’s monsoon rainfall was 6% higher than normal in the June-September season as excessive precipitation in central and southern areas offset lesser rains in eastern and northern states, the state-run weather office said on Friday. The monsoon, which accounts for about 75% of India’s annual rainfall, is vital as nearly half of the country’s […]
Although fever is one of the most common symptoms recorded with both COVID and dengue, it also holds the key to differentiating between the two infections. Usually, the fever associated with COVID-19 is said to be low or moderate grade, touching a 102 degrees Fahrenheit max., and can be managed with the use of medicines […]
PARIS: Iran stepped up pressure on celebrities and journalists on Thursday over the wave of women-led protests sparked by outrage over the death of Mahsa Amini after she was arrested by the Islamic republic’s morality police. Filmmakers, athletes, musicians and actors have backed the demonstrations, and many saw it as a signal when the national […]
WASHINGTON: A presidential commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders has unanimously approved a recommendation for the provision of stamping of H-1B visas inside the US, a move if accepted by President Joe Biden will come as a big relief to thousands of foreign professionals, particularly from India. The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa […]
OUAGADOUGOU (Burkina Faso): Gunfire rang out early Friday in Burkina Faso‘s capital and the state broadcaster went off the air, sparking fears of a mutiny nine months after a military coup d’etat overthrew the country’s president. It was not immediately known where Lt Col Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba was in the West African country. He […]
JAKARTA/BEIJING: Indonesia said it has granted emergency use approval to an mRNA Covid-19 vaccine developed by a Chinese company, becoming the first country, ahead of even China, to do so. Indonesia’s food and drugs agency (BPOM) greenlighted the use of Walvax Biotechnology’s mRNA vaccine, which has been in development for more than two years and […]
India will stage a MotoGP race at the Buddh International Circuit in New Delhi from 2023, organisers said on Friday. Commercial rights holders Dorna Sports said earlier this month that they were in talks with the state government of Uttar Pradesh and India’s sports ministry. “We have a lot of fans in India and we’re […]
Meta has announced that Instagram and Facebook users in the US can now connect their wallets and share their digital collectibles on their handles. The users can also cross-post their digital collectibles across both these platforms. The development comes almost two months after the company expanded non-fungible tokens (NFT) support on Instagram to 100 countries […]
LONDON: The UK’s national crime agency (NCA) has broken up a sophisticated people smuggling network that allegedly involves five Bangladeshi taxi drivers in London ferrying migrants to and from lorries that illegally transport them into and out of Britain. It follows an NCA probe into an organised crime group involved in smuggling migrants using lorries. […]
DOVER, Del: Newly disclosed text messages between Elon Musk and Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal showed that the two men briefly bonded in the spring over their love of engineering — at least until Musk publicly tweeted this message early on April 9: ‘ Is Twitter dying? ’” That soured a relationship that appeared to bloom […]
