All the member countries of WHO South-East Asia Region on Thursday resolved to collectively fight Covid-19 and strengthen the region’s response with better-equipped health systems to deliver essential health services during the pandemic…reports India Daily News “The spread of Covid-19 has impacted almost every community, overwhelmed health systems and disrupted economies and livelihoods with effects
US President Donald Trump he would support seeing a first female President in the country but added that it should not be Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris, it was reported. He made the remarks while speaking to supporters at an airport in Londonderry, New Hampshire, on Friday as he began his campaign trail a
Thousands of people took to the streets of Washington D.C. to protest against police brutality and racism in the biggest gathering to take place in the US capital since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country earlier this year. A series of speakers addressed the protesters on Friday from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, marking
Peru has extended the national state of emergency for another 90 days due to a resurgence of Covid-19 cases. “As of July of this year, an increase in Covid-19 cases has been observed in several regions, as well as in Metropolitan Lima and Callao, where the situation persists,” Xinhua news agency quoted a government decree
The British government on Friday proposed measures to give emergency approval to a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine and train a large number of people in administering it in order to enable a fast-paced mass rollout…reports India Daily News If a vaccine is developed before 2021, the proposals will bolster existing powers that allow the
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday announced that he was resigning from the post due to health concerns. The 65-year-old made the announcement at a press conference in Tokyo, reports Xinhua news agency…reports India Daily News. Abe said that he needed to be treated for a flare-up of his intestinal disease that led his
‘The Discomfort of Evening’, the debut novel written by 29-year-old Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison, has been announced as the winner of The 2020 International Booker Prize. Rijneveld has become is the youngest author to win the prestigious award. The Dutch edition was a bestseller in the Netherlands,
As the world works through a new “normal” this year, Teamwork Arts, the producer of the iconic Jaipur Literature Festival, and the British Library, bring to you a virtual edition of the annual JLF London, with the magnificent piazza of the British Library replaced by the boundless possibilities of the internet. Everything else remains the
The overall flood situation in Bangladesh has improved in most of the districts with water levels receding in many rivers, an official said on Thursday. Sarder Udoy Raihan, Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) executive engineer, told Xinhua news agency that water levels receded at most of the 101 observation points across the four major river
The US has imposed a visa ban on members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime, People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and some state-owned businesses responsible for the occupation and militarization of the disputed South China Sea…reports India Daily News In a statement issued by the State Department on Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said
