Image copyright Jeff Moore/Borkowski Circus performers have delivered a letter to Downing Street calling for inclusion in the recent arts rescue package or to be allowed to reopen. The letter warns that their industry faces collapse in two weeks without government support. More than 50 acts including clowns, acrobats and dancers from some of the … Read more
GENEVA: The World Health Organization on Tuesday acknowledged “evidence emerging” of the airborne spread of the novel coronavirus, after a group of scientists urged the global body to update its guidance on how the respiratory disease passes between people. “We have been talking about the possibility of airborne transmission and aerosol transmission as one of … Read more
michael barbaro From The New York Times, I’m Michael Barbaro. This is “The Daily.” [music] Today: As infection rates break new records across the U.S. this July 4 weekend, four new insights into the virus from my colleague, science reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. It’s Monday, July 6. Let me start by, Donald, saying happy … Read more
India might witness the worst of the coronavirus pandemic early next year if a vaccine remains elusive. Based on a recent study on testing and case data of 84 countries, comprising 60 per cent of the world population, researchers of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have predicted that India might record 2.87 lakh coronavirus cases … Read more
MUMBAI: Union IT and Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday said India is an “important digital power” and will not compromise on its data sovereignty. Speaking at the launch of a Rs 1,100-crore data centre built by Hiranandani Group company Yotta, Prasad also said that he aspires India to be a centre for data … Read more
At a time when China is in the news for its expansionist adventurism during a global pandemic, what has remained largely underreported is Beijing’s disturbing record of gross human rights violations of the Uighur Muslims, an ethnic minority in the country’s Xinjiang province. Using open-source data, India Today TV’s analysis of over 50 satellite images … Read more
With its international isolation deepening over its handling of the new coronavirus, civil liberties in Hong Kong, repression of Muslim minorities on the mainland, and over its military posturing with its neighbours, China has begun playing victim before its domestic constituency. The communist regime has unleashed this propaganda tactic on the back of its aggression … Read more
SAO PAULO: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday he tested positive for the novel coronavirus, adding in a television interview that he was in good health despite running a fever. The right-wing populist, who has played down the severity of the virus which he has called a “little flu,” took the test on Monday … Read more
The Paris court of appeals ruled that a judge may reopen the investigation into a 2018 allegation that Darmanin raped a woman in 2009, sources told CNN. A lawyer for Darmanin, who was appointed interior minister on Monday, said the accusation is baseless. On Tuesday morning, about a dozen activists were gathered outside the interior … Read more
Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Tuesday decided to expand the areas under lockdown and impose tougher restrictions from July 9 to stem the relentless spike in COVID-19 cases, a senior official said. The containment zones and buffer zones around them will be clubbed together and constitute a “broad-based” containment zone where total lockdown will … Read more