A Russian Covid-19 vaccine has shown no serious side effects and elicited an immune response in early human trials, said a study published in The Lancet on Friday. Russia last month registered the “Sputnik V”, becoming the first country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine. However, the country faced criticism for approving a vaccine before completion […]
Cooking should be an example in many schools for boosting students’ confidence and making them understand how to look after their well-being Renowned chef Gordon Ramsay loves India and its diverse culture, and he says he would like to open a restaurant here one day. “There are very few countries in the world that have […]
The Indian and Chinese militaries began the third round of talks at Chushul on Tuesday to resolve the fresh skirmishes at Pangong Lake in Eastern Ladakh. “A Brigade Commander-level talk started at 10 a.m. in Chushul on the Indian side,” said a source. The agenda of the deliberation were the fresh development at three contentious […]
The Union Government has permitted the resumption of on-board serving of meals and in-flight entertainment on domestic and international flights. In an order, the Centre has said that airlines may serve pre-packed snacks and meals and pre-packed beverages as per the policy of the airlines depending on the duration of the flight. The order says, […]
Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, who emerged as world’s fastest human computer by winning the Mental Calculation World Championship at Mind Sports Olympiad in London earlier this month, is all set to embark on a mission to eradicate mathematics phobia both in India and abroad. The 20-year-old Hyderabadi, who became the first Indian and also the first […]
A pair of Mahatma Gandhi’s circular rimmed, gold-plated glasses left in a Bristol auction house’s letterbox were sold for 260,000 pounds ($340,314). Earlier this month, the staff at the East Bristol Auctions, the largest auction house in South West England, found the glasses in its letterbox inside a plain envelope. The staff estimated that the […]
World’s largest oil company Aramco remains committed on its investment plan in India, including a $15 billion deal with Reliance Industries, even though Covid-19 pandemic has made life difficult for oil companies with suppressed demand and falling oil prices and wide scale erosion in valuations. Replying to a query from IANS, Aramco said that it […]
Former US First Lady Michelle Obama, in an 18-minute speech on Day One of the virtual Democratic convention, tore into Donald Trump’s presidency painting a picture of a man who simply does not understand what she described as the “immense weight and awesome power of the presidency”. “Donald Trump is the wrong president for our […]
Journalist, commentator and essayist, Mark Gevisser says he likes the word “queer” because of its “double valence”. As well as having been “reappropriated by people across the world to describe themselves, ‘queer’ means different or skewed: to see things from a queer perspective is to look at the world askance, to see it afresh. But […]
US stocks ended mixed on Friday as investors pored through the newly-released July jobs report. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 46.50 points, or 0.17 per cent, to 27,433.48. The S&P 500 was up 2.12 points, or 0.06 per cent, to 3,351.28. The Nasdaq Composite Index slid 97.09 points, or 0.87 per cent, to 11,010.98, […]