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March 06, 2021 07:34 PM IST The candidates selected by Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa will not have to spend a single penny as the billionaire will be sponsoring their tickets.
March 06, 2021 06:39 PM IST Around 30 Myanmar police and their family members came across the border seeking refuge in recent days, as the junta's suppression of protesters turned increasingly violent, with dozens killed since the Feb. 1 coup.
March 06, 2021 04:03 PM IST Pope Francis' visit to Iraq is an effort to comfort the country's ancient but dwindling Christian community and deepen his dialogue with other faiths. During an interfaith service in southern Iraq, the pope said that freedom of conscience and religion were "fundamental rights" that should be recognised everywhere.
March 06, 2021 03:49 PM IST The one-metre-long black and white shoes, which look like an elongated version of clown shoes, was launched by Adidas in collaboration with Estonian rapper Tommy Cash.
March 06, 2021 03:28 PM IST In an effort to give people some respite from the coronavirus pandemic and other hardships, musicians conduct live performances in trucks on the streets of a Venezuelan city.
March 06, 2021 03:10 PM IST The hackers were able to access some computer systems at Atlanta-based SITA Passenger Service System for up to a month before the incident''s seriousness was confirmed on Feb. 24, a spokesman for the company''s Geneva-based parent company said.
March 06, 2021 01:58 PM IST Prime Minister Imran Khan secured 178 votes in the 342-member lower house of Parliament during a special session convened on the directives of President Arif Alvi. A total of 172 votes was needed for a simple majority.
March 06, 2021 01:48 PM IST The variant originally identified in Britain, called B.1.1.7, has been spreading rapidly across the United States. The new version that surfaced in Oregon has the same backbone, but also a mutation — E484K, or “Eek” — seen in variants of the virus circulating in South Africa, Brazil and New York City
March 06, 2021 01:36 PM IST Researchers say the application “could increase confidence in RDT tests.”
March 06, 2021 01:25 PM IST "The secondary objective findings in this study, of a quicker decrease in infectious virus among individuals with early COVID-19 treated with molnupiravir, are promising," said William Fischer, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, in a statement from the companies.
March 06, 2021 12:12 PM IST The drive lasted about 33 minutes, propelling the rover forward by four metres, where it then turned to the left by 150 degrees and backed up 2.5 metres into its new temporary parking space, the American space agency noted in a statement.
March 06, 2021 11:43 AM IST Imran Khan, 68, decided to take a vote of confidence in the lower house of Parliament after his finance minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh was defeated in the closely-fought Senate election on Wednesday. The Opposition demanded the Prime Minister's resignation after the debacle.
March 06, 2021 09:54 AM IST The virus variant first found in England is potentially fueling the increase, along with another variant, detected in Brazil. Italy registered 297 more deaths, raising the confirmed death toll to 99,271.
March 06, 2021 09:11 AM IST The blast sent plumes of smoke into the sky and triggered gunfire, witnesses and state-owned media reported.
March 06, 2021 07:33 AM IST A Houthi military spokesman said in a Twitter post on Saturday that two drones attacked King Khalid Air Base, in the Khamis Mushait area.
March 06, 2021 07:33 AM IST "I don't see that the markets are expecting inflation to rise above the 2% inflation objective that the Fed has as an average inflation rate over the longer run," Yellen said in a PBS Newshour interview.
March 06, 2021 07:07 AM IST Coronavirus News Highlights: Today is the 346th day since India implemented a nationwide lockdown to help curb the novel coronavirus pandemic. So far, India has recorded 1,11,73,761 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 1,57,548 deaths.
March 05, 2021 10:43 PM IST Greenpeace said that the stunt was carried out to raise awareness on “greenwashing” of climate change and environmental regulation.
March 05, 2021 10:36 PM IST Tamara Lanier, a retired chief probation officer for the state of Connecticut, said she had grown up with tales of an African ancestor known as Papa Renty but did not know the photographs existed until about 2010, when she began tracing her genealogy.
March 05, 2021 10:36 PM IST YouTube had suspended Donald Trump’s channel in late January, joining other social media platforms in banning his accounts following the deadly January 6 Capitol riot.
March 05, 2021 10:08 PM IST The bond market, which has been betting on stronger economic growth as well as the potential for higher inflation, pushed bond yields higher.
March 05, 2021 09:22 PM IST Researchers used the Fugaku supercomputer to model the flow of virus particles from people wearing different types and combinations of masks, according to a study released on Thursday by research giant Riken and Kobe University.
March 05, 2021 09:17 PM IST After that process, which usually takes a day at Hanan Products, production can begin with at least one rabbi on site to ensure nothing taints any of the food during the run.
March 05, 2021 09:14 PM IST The Senate’s 51-50 vote to start debating the package, with Harris pushing Democrats over the top, underscored how they were navigating the package through Congress with virtually no margin for error. In the House their majority is a scrawny 10 votes.
March 05, 2021 08:22 PM IST The data indicates that the vaccine will not need to be modified in order to protect against the variant, which is believed to have originated in the Amazonian city of Manaus, said the source, who requested anonymity as the results have not yet been made public.
