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February 28, 2021 10:13 PM IST By mid-February — when feta was the No. 1 search term on the Instacart grocery delivery app — The Charlotte Observer reported temporarily empty feta shelves at local stores such as Harris Teeter supermarkets. Demand was up 200%, said Danna Robinson, a spokesperson for the company, which operates more than 230 stores in seven states.
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February 28, 2021 10:04 PM IST As the pandemic ignites a wave of home renovations, some craftier homeowners have interpreted this moment as a creative one, tossing aside expectations of what a home should be and updating their spaces in ways that channel their artistic energy, reimagining what is acceptable home decor in the process.
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February 28, 2021 09:43 PM IST Israel has come under international criticism for not sharing its vaccine stockpile with the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, even as it plans to share surplus vaccines with far-flung allies in Africa, Europe and Latin America.
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February 28, 2021 09:11 PM IST In mid-February, the UK met a government target of 15 million of the most vulnerable people receiving first doses.
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February 28, 2021 08:58 PM IST Aides say Trump will use the speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference to blast his successor, President Joe Biden, and try to cement his status as the party's undisputed leader going forward despite his loss in November.
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February 28, 2021 08:29 PM IST Bangladesh's Digital Security Act (DSA) criminalises engaging in "propaganda" against the "spirit" of the 1971 Bangladeshi war of independence, the national anthem, the flag and the nation's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of the current prime minister.
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February 28, 2021 07:16 PM IST Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist for girls education who miraculously survived a bullet to the head from the militant Taliban in October 2012, said the news of internet shutdown and arrests of activists "protesting peacefully" in India is "worrying" and expressed the hope that the government will make sure that people are heard.
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February 28, 2021 06:58 PM IST OCHA, said the risk of large-scale famine in the Arab world's poorest country has never been more acute, adding that the years-long conflict, economic decline, and institutional collapse created enormous humanitarian needs in all sectors.
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February 28, 2021 06:34 PM IST Germany's disease control agency, the Robert Koch Institute, said it would add Moselle to the list of variant of concern areas that already includes countries such as the Czech Republic, Portugal and the United Kingdom.
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February 28, 2021 05:09 PM IST People can get desirable protective effect after 14 days of inoculation.
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February 28, 2021 02:55 PM IST "The crew was quickly evacuated to the airfield. There is no threat to lives of the pilots," the RIA news agency cited a Defence Ministry statement as saying. The helicopter was not fired at, it added.
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February 28, 2021 01:28 PM IST Last month 55 of the city's best-known democracy campaigners were arrested in a series of dawn raids.
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February 28, 2021 01:13 PM IST Donald Trump is set to deliver a closing speech at CPAC that is expected to be a withering critique of President Joe Biden’s first few weeks in office
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February 28, 2021 10:11 AM IST PSLV-C51 rocket, which is the 53rd mission of PSLV, launched Amazonia-1 of Brazil as primary satellite and 18 co-passenger payloads from the first launch pad of the Sriharikota spaceport
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February 28, 2021 10:03 AM IST Almost 2 million people aged 60 to 63 will be invited after over 64s had been covered in the previous phase and letters will start arriving from Monday explaining how they can make an appointment for the jab.
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February 28, 2021 09:49 AM IST The accident happened late Saturday in the city of Jilin, local authorities told state-run Xinhua news agency. The eight people who fell sick are in hospital and stated to be in stable condition.
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February 28, 2021 09:48 AM IST Australia, normally a secondary market for big-brand shows developed in New York and London, has become an unexpected pandemic pioneer: a model and a test case for the global theater industry.
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February 28, 2021 08:49 AM IST "There is a lot of heterogeneity in response to testing between state to state and some states have done higher than the others," she said.
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February 28, 2021 08:01 AM IST Health experts are anxiously awaiting a one-and-done option to help speed vaccinations, as they race against a virus that already has killed more than 510,000 people in the US and is mutating in increasingly worrisome ways.
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February 28, 2021 07:47 AM IST The Sacramento Bee reports Dr. Scott Green appeared Thursday for his Sacramento Superior Court trial, held virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic, from an operating room.
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February 28, 2021 07:30 AM IST The Biden administration has faced some criticism, notably an editorial in the Washington Post, that the president should have been tougher on the crown prince, who was not sanctioned despite being blamed for approving Khashoggi's murder.
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February 28, 2021 07:30 AM IST State television announced that Myanmar's U.N. envoy had been fired for betraying the country, after he urged the United Nations to use "any means necessary" to reverse the Feb. 1 coup that ousted elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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February 28, 2021 07:17 AM IST Here's a list of 12 best films on Wall Street and Aemrican corporate world.
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February 28, 2021 07:16 AM IST Coronavirus News Live Updates: Today is the 340th day since India implemented a nationwide lockdown to help curb the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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February 27, 2021 10:48 PM IST The blankets are “literal lifesavers,” said Subhi Taha, who calls himself “just an average Muslim American” on his YouTube channel, where he has about 250,000 followers.