May 20 2024
Hollywood star Johnny Depp on Monday lost his libel battle with a British tabloid that labelled him a “wife beater”, after a London High Court judge ruled he had repeatedly assaulted his former partner and put her in fear for […]
India recorded 45,231 new coronavirus infections, taking its total cases to 8.23 million, the health ministry said on Monday. The country doubled down on its testing in the month of August, raising the bar to a total of 62.4 million […]
Four days into the Dubai Fitness Challenge 2020, that kicked off last week, the emirates today made a big splash with the The Aqua Challenge – the first such event taking place in the Middle East – in one of […]
South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun on Sunday announced a new social distancing scheme based on five levels instead of three, with plans to improve anti-virus measures amid criticisms that label the current system as too broad-brush. The scheme took […]
UAE’s Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) on Sunday announced that Al Qassimi Women’s & Children’s Hospital have successfully performed three operations for uterine prolapse using the da Vinci robotic surgical system. A first-of-its-kind achievement in the UAE, it underpins […]
In the second last week of north-Indian state Delhi’s anti-dengue campaign, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said the national capital has again defeated the mosquito-borne tropical disease. “Owing to the aggressive campaign by the Delhi government this year, no […]
Over a million Slovaks took a coronavirus swab on Saturday as the country launched a huge logistical operation to test most of its population over the weekend to reverse a rise in the pandemic. Authorities say the ambitious plan to […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the country’s first seaplane service in Ahmedabad. The flight connects Sabarmati Riverfront to Statue of Unity in Kevadia, Narmada district in the western state. The Prime Minister followed the inauguration by boarding a […]
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Saturday declared a one-month partial coronavirus lockdown, shutting restaurants and other leisure activities in Athens and other major cities from next week. “We must act now, before intensive care units buckle under the strain […]
Video game titan Ubisoft this week announced a deal with Netflix to create shows based on its hit “Assassin’s Creed” franchise. The first project by the French-based video game group and the leading television streaming service is a series intended […]
With Halloween just around the bend, NASA has released three spooktastic posters for all the space buffs looking to add a touch of sci-fi chills to their walls.According to the prolific Washington based space agency the posters, themed ‘Galaxy of […]
