- Monday, May 20, 2024
India posted its lowest daily coronavirus caseload in nearly three months, data from the health ministry showed on Tuesday, as new cases maintained decreasing trend from a peak in September. The country reported 46,790 new infections in the last 24 hours, taking its tally to nearly 7.6 million - the…
India is on course to top the world in coronavirus cases, but from Maharashtra's whirring factories to Kolkata's thronging markets, people are back at work -- and eager to forget the pandemic for festival season. After a strict lockdown in March that left millions on the brink of starvation, the…
Pakistan has invited Indian Sikhs to attend the 551st birth anniversary celebrations of Sikh faith's founder, Guru Nanak Dev, an official said on Monday. The three-day celebrations, known as Guru Nanak Gurpurab, will begin on November 27 at Nankana Sahib. Every year, a large number of Sikh pilgrims from India…
With exactly two weeks until the election, President Donald Trump was continuing his campaign rally marathon Tuesday with a trip to swing state Pennsylvania, the day after early voting began in another key state, Florida. Trump and his wife Melania will head to Erie, Pennsylvania, where he will host another…
French police have conducted a series of raids targeting Islamist networks, three days after the beheading of a history teacher who had shown his pupils a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin vowed there would be "not a minute's respite for enemies of the Republic", after tens…
Facebook on Monday unveiled software based on machine learning which the company said was the first to be able to translate from any of 100 languages without relying on English. The open-source artificial intelligence software was created to help the massive social network deliver content better in 160 languages to…
A bronze statue of Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol will be unveiled in London's Leicester Square in 2021 to celebrate the silver jubilee of one of Hindi cinema's most iconic love stories, “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge” (“DDLJ”). “DDLJ”, starring Khan and Kajoj as lovers Raj and Simran, released on October…
Pace bowler Mohammed Shami was hailed on Monday as the hero of bottom-of-the-table Kings XI Punjab's sensational super over win over Indian Premier League champions Mumbai Indians. The match which finished after midnight for Indian fans, was the first in the IPL's 12-year history to go to two super overs…
At least half of India's 1.3 billion people are likely to have been infected with the new coronavirus by next February, helping slow the spread of the disease, a member of a federal government committee tasked with providing projections said on Monday. India has so far reported 7.55 million cases…
Hundreds of Indian migrant workers who were laid off by a construction company in Saudi Arabia due to the coronavirus pandemic have filed a rare complaint to the Indian government over unpaid earnings, lawyers and campaigners said. More than 280 labourers - who were fired by the Nasser S Al…
