Nepal Prime Minister and Chairman of ruling Nepal Communist Party has replied to party’s standing committee meeting that he won’t be able to attend the meeting to discuss on prevailing issues. Sending a two-page letter to the standing committee meeting on Sunday afternoon, PM Oli expressed his unwillingness to come […]
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Queen Elizabeth, 94, to be among first to receive Covid-19 vaccine in UK
Queen Elizabeth, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are expected to be among the first to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, whose first consignment has arrived in the UK and is set to be administered first to those above the age of 80 from Tuesday. Anti-vaccine claims on social media and elsewhere […]
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China prepares large-scale rollout of Covid-19 vaccines
Provincial governments across China are placing orders for experimental, domestically made coronavirus vaccines, though health officials have yet to say how well they work or how they may reach the country’s 1.4 billion people. Developers are speeding up final testing, the Chinese foreign minister said Thursday during a U.N. meeting, […]
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Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin will take the first woman to moon’s surface
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin will take the first woman to the moon’s surface, the billionaire said on Friday as NASA nears a decision to pick its first privately built lunar landers capable of sending astronauts to the moon by 2024. “This (BE-7) is the engine that will take […]
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Julian Batubara, Indonesia’s social minister named suspect after bribery raid
Indonesia’s anti-graft agency on Sunday named Social Affairs Minister Juliari Batubara as a suspect in a million-dollar bribery case, along with four other people. Juliari is the second Indonesian cabinet minister to be named a suspect by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in recent few weeks. He and two other […]
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Justin Trudeau softens stand, but bilateral ties have already taken a blow
As Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reiterated his support for the “peaceful protests” in India over the farm laws but tried to soften his stance, the damage-control exercise may have come too late as Indo-Canadian groups have expressed their disappointment over the harm caused to bilateral ties. During his daily […]
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Covid-19: No UK quarantine for business activity from today
There will be no mandatory 14-day Covid-19 quarantine from Saturday for individuals arriving in England for business activity that delivers significant benefit to the British economy, the UK government said, announcing a list of exemptions. From 4am on Saturday, individuals undertaking specific business activity that would deliver a significant benefit […]
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Pakistan on brink of bankruptcy under Imran Khan govt
While addressing a public meeting at the Bacha Khan Chowk, leaders of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) consisting of an 11-party alliance, said that the wrong policies of the Imran Khan-led government had brought the country to the brink of economic disaster. Dawn quoted PDM as saying, the struggle they […]
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Tesla ordered to pay Chinese Model S buyer for concealing damage
Tesla Inc. was ordered by a Beijing court to compensate the buyer of a used Model S car after concluding the electric automaker concealed structural damage on a vehicle it sold on its official website. The court ruled that Tesla should pay more than 1.1 million yuan ($168,420) to compensate […]
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South Africa expects first virus vaccine delivery by mid-2021
South Africa will probably take its first delivery of coronavirus vaccines by the middle of next year after agreeing on an initial payment, according to the Health Ministry. The government will pay about 327 million rand ($22 million) to take delivery of the vaccines under the Covax initiative that will […]
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Moscow starts mass Covid-19 vaccination with its Sputnik V shot
Moscow began distributing the Sputnik V Covid-19 shot via 70 clinics on Saturday, marking Russia’s first mass vaccination against the disease, the city’s coronavirus task force said. The task force said the Russian-made vaccine would first be made available to doctors and other medical workers, teachers and social workers because […]
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South Korea urges vigilance as Covid-19 clusters emerge in third wave
South Korean authorities urged vigilance on Saturday as small coronavirus clusters emerged in a third wave, centred in the Seoul area, with infections near nine-month highs. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) reported 583 new coronavirus infections, down from the 629 reported on Friday, which was the highest […]
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36 British MPs back farmers’ protest, want UK to raise issue with India
Thirty-six British MPs from various parties – including some of Indian origin and others representing many constituents with links in Punjab – have written to British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, asking him to raise the issue of farmers’ agitation with the Narendra Modi government. Coordinated by Labour MP Tanmanjeet Singh […]
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Meet Gitanjali Rao, Time’s first-ever ‘Kid of the Year’
Selected from more than 5,000 nominees as Time’s first-ever ‘Kid of the Year’, 15-year-old Gitanjali Rao was chosen for her “astonishing work” and using technology to tackle issues from contaminated drinking water to opioid addiction and cyberbullying. Time said Rao, a sophomore at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado’s Denver, […]
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US urges countries to make law over access to Tibet
Slamming China for its alleged repressive regime in Tibet, a top American diplomat has urged other countries to pass their own versions of a US law that calls for denying access to the US for Chinese officials known to be involved in restricting visits to the remote Himalayan region. Robert […]