Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday hit back at the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remark of “idea of the king has come back” in Lok Sabha and said that he thinks he is the “king of India“. The Congress leader on Wednesday had accused the Centre of having a “flawed vision” and … Read more
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s plan to ease sharply rising energy bills feature in a number of papers. Source link
Despite rainfall, Delhi’s air quality was recorded in the ”very poor” category as the Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 324 at 8.05 am. Heavy rain lashed the national capital early on Thursday with the minimum temperature in the city settling at 11 degrees Celsius, three notches above the normal, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) … Read more
A Wordle puzzle from December. Power Language Wordle has been around for months now and was recently acquired by the New York Times for a figure in the low millions. But what is Wordle? Spent any time on Twitter recently? Seen all those posts featuring yellow, green and gray boxes? Yep, that’s Wordle. What is … Read more
New Zealand on Thursday announced a phased reopening of its border that has been largely closed for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but travel bodies said self-isolation rules need to be removed to revive the struggling tourism sector. Vaccinated New Zealanders in Australia can travel home from Feb. 27 without a requirement to … Read more
Researchers have discovered 23 “high-impact vulnerabilities” affecting any vendors that adopted Independent BIOS Developers (IBV) code into their Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware. Binarly explained the vulnerabilities in a blog post this week, confirming that “all these vulnerabilities are found in several of the major enterprise vendor ecosystems” including Fujitsu, Siemens, Dell, HP, HPE, … Read more
HSBC expects the 10-year benchmark to rise to 7.5% by the second quarter of 2022 and 7.8% by the fourth quarter of 2022 on the back of higher-than-expected issuances of government securities. Synopsis Bond yields rose after finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in the budget on Tuesday, announced a fiscal deficit target of 6.4% for next … Read more
The vaccine is a three-dose one administered intradermally using the painless PharmaJet, a needle-free system, Tropis, on Day 0, Day 28 and Day 56. Zydus Cadila on Wednesday announced that the company had started supplies of its Covid-19 vaccine, ZyCoV-D, to the Government of India. The group is also planning to make the vaccine available … Read more
I am angry because I have spoken to the families of aged care residents who have had enough. Richard Colbeck must resign today. If Richard Colbeck does not resign today the prime minister should sack him. He is simply incapable of fulfilling the task of looking after the interests of old, vulnerable Australians. What we … Read more
The drones managed to penetrate Emirati airspace but were destroyed away from populated areas, the ministry said on Twitter. It’s unclear to whom the drones belonged. Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, a possible culprit, have not claimed responsibility. The UAE is a member of the Saudi-led coalition that has been at war with the Houthis since … Read more