Online Desk ; The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. CANBERRA — An Australian infectious diseases expert has warned that it could take six years to…
Category: International
Biden, Modi speak of climate, ‘democratic’ values in first talks
Online desk : President Joe Biden signaled he would seek to deepen the close US relationship with India in his first talks on Monday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he added…
WHO mission to China fails to identify animal source of Covid-19
Online desk ; The World Health Organisation (WHO) mission to China to uncover the origins of Covid-19 has failed to identify the animal source, said scientists on Tuesday, reports AFP. Experts believe…
Refugees in Bangladesh to be repatriated: Myanmar army chief
online desk ; Myanmar’s army chief General Min Aung Hlaing has promised to take back those who fled Myanmar and took refuge in Bangladesh. He made the promise in his first televised…
Trump on trial in Senate for inciting insurrection
Online desk ; The US Senate puts Donald Trump on trial for inciting insurrection Tuesday, charging into unprecedented constitutional territory and laying bare the national trauma inflicted in the former president’s attempt…
Covid: WHO team says ‘extremely unlikely’ virus leaked from lab
Online Desk ; A team of international experts investigating the origins of Covid-19 have all but dismissed a theory that the virus came from a laboratory, reports BBC. Peter Ben Embarek, the…
S Africa suspends launch of Oxford vaccinations over efficacy concerns
Online desk ; South Africa has said it would suspend the start of its COVID-19 vaccinations with the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab after a study showed the drug failed to prevent mild and moderate…
Bird flu outbreaks spread: Vietnam culls 100,000 poultry
Online desk : Vietnam has culled more 100,000 poultry so far this year in a bid to contain the spread of bird flu in the Southeast Asian country, the government said on…
Former US secretary of state George Shultz dies at 100
Online desk ; Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, a titan of American academia, business and diplomacy who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve Cold War relations with the…
Saudi commutes death sentences of 3 citizens to 10 years’ jail
Online Desk : Three young Saudis from the minority Shia community had their death sentences commuted to 10 years in prison on Sunday, officials said, as the kingdom seeks to improve its…
Oxford Covid vaccine 10% effective against South African variant, study says
Online desk ; The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine offers as little as 10% protection against the Covid variant first seen in South Africa, researchers have suggested, reports The Guardian. Scientists who conducted a small-scale…
British boy wakes from year-long coma unaware of Covid pandemic
Online Desk ; A British teenager is slowly emerging from a coma nearly a year after being hit by a car, and he has no knowledge of the coronavirus pandemic even though…