No ‘provocative’, ‘irresponsible’ remarks on national flag: Cong to PDP
Jammu: Asking former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti to desist from making highly provocative and irresponsible remarks on the national flag, the Congress unit in the Union Territory on Saturday strongly condemned the PDP chief’s statement on the tricolour. Reacting to Mufti’s statement on the national flag, Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee […]
More trouble for Nawaz Sharif: Pak’s anti-corruption body approves fresh case
Islamabad: Pakistan’s anti-corruption body has approved a new case against deposed premier Nawaz Sharif, days after Prime Minister Imran Khan urged the authorities to dispose of major graft cases quickly. Sharif, the 70-year-old supremo of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) who was ousted from power in 2017 by the Supreme Court on corruption charges, is […]
Trump announces ‘arrival’ of Covid-19 vaccine
Washington: US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that a COVID-19 vaccine is “ready” and going to be announced “within weeks” to combat the deadly disease that has killed over 223,000 Americans, as he debated with his Democratic challenger Joe Biden for the final time before the presidential election. The debate, just less than two […]
Kulbushan Jadhav case: Pak parliamentary panel approves bill to seek review of conviction
Islamabad: A Pakistani parliamentary panel has approved a government bill that seeks a review of the conviction of death-row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav, complying with the directives of the International Court of Justice, according to a media report on Thursday. The draft bill titled the International Court of Justice (Review and Reconsideration) Ordinance was discussed and […]
Contract of insurance is of utmost good faith, says SC
New Delhi: A contract of insurance is of utmost good faith and a proposer who seeks to obtain life insurance policy is duty bound to disclose all material facts bearing upon the issue, the Supreme Court has said. The apex court said this while setting aside the March this year verdict of the National Consumer […]
Withdraw from UN nuke ban treaty, US tells countries
United Nations: The United States is urging countries that have ratified a UN treaty to ban nuclear weapons to withdraw their support as the pact nears the 50 ratifications needed to trigger its entry into force, which supporters say could happen this week. The US letter to signatories, obtained by The Associated Press, says the […]
Pandemic: Poverty figures set to rise, cautions UN
United Nations: An estimated one in six children or 356 million globally were living in extreme poverty before the COVID-19 pandemic began, and this is set to worsen significantly, according to a new World Bank Group and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) analysis. ‘Global Estimate of Children in Monetary Poverty: An Update’, notes that sub-Saharan Africa, […]
Covid-19: IIT-Kharagpur develops low-cost, portable testing device
New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kharagpur has developed a low-cost portable COVID-19 testing device that can deliver results within an hour and it has also received certification from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). According to IIT-Kharagpur officials, ‘COVIRAP’ is a cuboid-shaped portable testing device that can deliver results in an hour, […]
Preparing for Covid vaccination : UNICEF to stockpile half a billion syringes by year-end
United Nations: UNICEF said it will stockpile 520 million syringes in its warehouses, as part of a larger plan of one billion hypodermic needles by 2021, to guarantee initial supply and help ensure that syringes are available in countries before the COVID-19 vaccines arrives. As the world awaits a COVID-19 vaccine, UNICEF has begun laying […]