Month: September 2021

Families given one hour to evacuate as lava from La Palma volcano nears sea

LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE, Spain, Sept 21 – Families rushed to retrieve belongings from their homes and escape the advancing lava on Tuesday, as sirens sounded and helicopters flew overhead in air filled with smoke from an erupting volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma. One family […]

COVID-19 UPDATE

DELHI, SEPTEMBER 21: 81.85 Cr. vaccine doses have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive Active cases account for less than 1% of total cases, currently at 0.92%; lowest since March 2020 India’s Active caseload stands at 3,09,575; lowest in 184 days 26,115 new cases in the […]

Air Marshal V R Chaudhari appointed next Chief of Air Staff

DELHI, SEPTEMBER 21: Government has decided to appoint Air Marshal V R Chaudhari, PVSM, AVSM, VM, presently Vice Chief of Air Staff, as the next Chief of the Air Staff after the retirement of Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC on 30th September, 2021.           Air Marshal […]

India facing new war paradigm on borders: Rahul Gandhi on China’s infra ramp up

New Delhi, Sep 21: India is facing a new war paradigm on its borders and ignoring it won’t work, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday, citing a media report on China ramping up its border infrastructure. The former Congress chief’s remarks came over a media report which quoted […]

MoS Finance holds talks with J&K L-G Sinha

Srinagar, Sep 21: Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Tuesday met Union Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad and discussed issues pertaining to development of the union territory. Earlier, the minister concluded his two-day visit to Ganderbal district in central Kashmir as part of […]

SC collegium recommends transfer of six more HC judges

New Delhi, Sep 21: The Supreme Court collegium headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana Tuesday decided to recommend to the Centre the transfer of six more judges in different high courts of the country. Close on the heels of its decisions on September 16 to transfer five chief […]

COVID-19: Active cases lowest in 184 days

New Delhi, Sep 21: India added 26,115 new cases of coronavirus? infection in a single day taking the?total?tally to?3,35,04,534, while the active cases declined to 3,09,575, the lowest in 184 days,?according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday The?death toll climbed to?4,45,385 with 252?fresh fatalities,?according to the […]

‘The world must wake up’: Tasks daunting as UN meeting opens

NEW YORK — In person and on screen, world leaders returned to the United Nations’ foremost gathering for the first time in two years on Tuesday with a formidable, diplomacy-packed agenda of escalating crises to tackle, including the still-raging COVID-19 pandemic and a relentlessly warming planet. Other pressing […]

UN to world leaders: To curtail warming, you must do more

Pressure keeps building on increasingly anxious world leaders to ratchet up efforts to fight climate change. There’s more of it coming this week in one of the highest-profile forums of all — the United Nations. For the second time in four days, this time out of U.N. headquarters […]

‘We were them:’ Vietnamese Americans help Afghan refugees

WESTMINSTER, Calif. — In the faces of Afghans desperate to leave their country after U.S. forces withdrew, Thuy Do sees her own family, decades earlier and thousands of miles away. A 39-year-old doctor in Seattle, Washington, Do remembers hearing how her parents sought to leave Saigon after Vietnam […]

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