Month: June 2020

Hundreds of Israelis protest in Jerusalem against Netanyahu

Jerusalem, Jun 28: Hundreds of Israelis protested on Saturday evening against Benjamin Netanyahu outside his Jerusalem residence as the Israeli prime minister faces corruption charges. The demonstration was fuelled by the detention of seven protesters on Friday who held a smaller rally against Netanyahu’s continuation as premier despite […]

Another coronavirus-related fatality in J-K

Srinagar, Jun 28:  A 76-year-old man from Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, who had tested positive for coronavirus, died at a hospital here, taking the number of virus-related fatalities in the union territory to 94, officials said on Sunday. The patient from Kulgam died at the Chest […]

COVID-19: India adds nearly 20,000 cases, highest single-day spike

New Delhi, June 28 : ?India recorded close to 20,000 COVID-19 cases in a single day for the first time on Sunday, taking the tally to 5,28,859, while the?death toll rose to?16,095,?according to the Union Health Ministry data The data updated at 8 am showed 19,906 new cases, […]

Democrats warn against overconfidence in fight against Trump

President Donald Trump is entering the final four-month stretch before Election Day presiding over a country that faces a public health crisis, mass unemployment and a reckoning over racism. His Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, is raking in cash. And a series of national and battleground polls suggests growing […]

Coronavirus task force briefs — but not at White House

WASHINGTON — There was no presidential appearance and no White House backdrop when the government’s coronavirus task force briefed the public for the first time since April — in keeping with an administration effort to show it is paying attention to the latest spike in cases but is […]

New Israeli espionage TV series tackles shadow war with Iran

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel’s latest hit TV series takes the viewers straight into the heart of the country’s archenemy Iran. “Tehran” tells the story of Tamar Rabinyan, a young Mossad operative tasked with hacking into and disabling an Iranian nuclear reactor so the Israeli military can carry out […]

Facebook will label newsworthy posts that break rules as ad boycott widens

Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Friday it will start labeling newsworthy content that violates the social media company’s policies, and label all posts and ads about voting with links to authoritative information, including those from politicians. A Facebook spokeswoman confirmed its new policy would have meant attaching a […]

Pakistan grounds 262 airline pilots with ‘dubious’ credentials

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan is grounding 262 airline pilots suspected of dodging their exams following inquiries into their qualifications, the aviation minister said on Friday in a move that has caused global concern. The action was prompted by the preliminary report on an airliner crash in Karachi last month, […]

Coronavirus cases in India cross 500,000 as big cities reel from surge

NEW DELHI – India reported over 17,000 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours, pushing the country’s total above 500,000, federal health ministry data showed on Saturday, with infections surging in major cities including the capital New Delhi. India has the world’s fourth-biggest outbreak of the virus […]

Union Health Ministry issues updated clinical management protocol for managing COVID-19 cases

Updated protocol includes use Dexamethasone as an alternative to Methylprednisolone for managing moderate to severe cases open view news desk NEW DELHI, JUNE 27: Keeping pace with evolving knowledge about COVID-19, especially in terms of effective drugs, the Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has today released […]

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