- Friday, February 21, 2025
A fire-stricken oil tanker was pushed away from Sri Lanka’s coast and into deeper waters on Saturday(5), rescuers said, after successfully containing the blaze during a 36-hour operation. The Panamanian-registered New Diamond carrying 270,000 tonnes of crude had drifted dangerously close to the eastern shores of Sri Lanka since issuing…
The World Health Organization does not expect widespread vaccinations against Covid-19 until the middle of next year, a spokeswoman said on Friday (4), stressing the importance of rigorous checks on their effectiveness and safety. None of the candidate vaccines in advanced clinical trials so far has demonstrated a “clear signal” of efficacy at the…
INDIA has become the world’s third country to pass four million coronavirus infections, setting a new record daily surge in cases on Saturday (5) as the crisis shows no sign of peaking. The 86,432 new cases took India to 4,023,179 infections, third behind the US which has more than 6.3…
DESCRIBING the situation along the India-China border as “very nasty”, US President Donald Trump has said that the Chinese were “going at it much more strongly” than general perception, adding that he would “love to get involved and help” ease the tension. Indian and Chinese troops have been engaged in…
THE Vivekananda Yoga University (VaYU) in Los Angeles — world’s first yoga university outside India — has commenced classes virtually. Offering programmes that combine scientific principles and modern research approaches to the ancient Indian practice of yoga, VaYU was launched in June as part of the 6th International Yoga Day…
The quaint, sugarcane-growing village of Rajewadi in India’s west did not have a single confirmed coronavirus case until mid-August. Now one in every four people there is positive for the virus, with police blaming a local religious event for the spread. Such spurts in cases in small towns and villages,…
The two million Hindus in the United States are a vital and key voting bloc in several swing states this presidential elections, Indian American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi said as he told fellow community members that it was their dharma to exercise their franchise. In his virtual key note address at…
Scientists have assessed the genome sequences of the novel coronavirus from more than 27,000 individuals with COVID-19, and found that the virus has mutated minimally since the beginning of the outbreak in China in December 2019, suggesting one vaccine would be sufficient to combat global infections. The study, published in…
FORMER India Test off-spinner Harbhajan Singh on Friday (4) added to a growing list of top names to pull out of the coronavirus hit the Indian Premier League. The 40-year-old has also become the second key player to withdraw from three-time champions Chennai Super Kings ahead of the start on…
With regular international flights stalled owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, Air India is set to operate direct flights between Kolkata and London, primarily for the purpose of repatriation, under the Centre’s Vande Bharat mission, a spokesperson for the airline said. The flights between NSC Bose International Airport Kolkata and Heathrow…
