Amid a sharp fall in India’s daily count of Covid-19 cases, the Ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) on Wednesday released data, comparing the country’s new cases per million population in the last seven days with those in some of the world’s worst-affected countries in the same duration.  The list of countries include the …

The UK has detected two cases of another new variant of coronavirus, the health secretary Matt Hancock says. The cases in London and north west England are contacts of people who travelled to South Africa, where the variant was discovered. File Travel restrictions with South Africa have been imposed. Anyone who has travelled there in the past fortnight, and anyone they …

A year after the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic that has so far infected nearly 95 lakh individuals and claimed 1.4 lakh lives in India, a concerted effort from China is under way to shift the blame for the origin of the coronavirus from the wet markets of Wuhan province to other countries, including India.   The country appears to be stepping …

After having cheated several high-end hotels across the country, 63-year-old savvy conman Vincent John’s luck ran out, when he tried to pull off a cheat-and-run game plan at a five star hotel at Navi Mumbai. The local police arrested John with a whopping 58 PAN and Aadhar cards. Wanted in as many as 187 similar crimes in several parts of …

For the first time in the course of the coronavirus pandemic, the United States reported more than 3,100 deaths in a single day, according to a Washington Post analysis.  It is also the first time that US deaths surpassed the number of Americans killed on 9/11, a frequent comparison for the daily tragedies that the nation faces as government failures to test and …

The World Health Organization Foundation has appointed an Indian-origin health expert, Anil Soni, as its first Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to address the most vital health challenges all across the globe.  The Foundation is an independent grant-making agency based out of Geneva in Switzerland and was launched in May 2020 to work alongside the WHO and the global health community.  …

Food delivery app Swiggy has recently found itself in the midst of a controversy on Twitter after its statement on the farmers protests. Swiggy had actually responded to a tweet by the parody account of Nirmala Sitharaman.  Representational The parody account had tweeted, ‘Had an argument with my Bhakt friend over a farmers protest. He said that we are not …

An 11-year-old girl in Australia has received a lot of praise on social media after a video emerged of her rescuing a trapped shark.  In a video, Billie Rea is seen catching hold of the draughtboard shark, who was stuck in a tidal pool on the edge of Kingston Beach in Tasmania.   Gilbert’s video “I have got a draughtboard shark. …

A motorist slammed the local authorities for failing to repair a huge pothole on a country road by roping his son into a photoshoot to show the size of the crater.  Aron Cross, 52, made his son go inside the pothole in Wycoller, near Pendle, UK. Aron had reported the pothole to the Lancashire County Council’s highway department a year …

The BBC announced the immediate start of an investigation into how it obtained an explosive 1995 interview with Princess Diana that lifted the lid on her troubled marriage to Prince Charles. The probe has been ordered into allegations that one of its reporters lied and fabricated documents in order to secure the interview and “make Diana talk”. nypost. The corporation said …