On Wednesday, the US State Department authorized certain exemptions from President Donald Trump’s June 22 announcement in which he indicated that the entry of foreign and non-immigrant workers with visas would be prohibited until the end of 2020. The new flexibilities allow…
read moreThe Air India Express plane crash in Kozhikode on August 7 that killed 18 people, including the two pilots, could force the airline to pay compensation of Rs 1.19 million per passenger in the event of death or bodily injury, according to…
read moreA massive landslide last week crushed a colony of 83 tea plantation workers at Munnar in Idukki, Kerala. To date, 55 bodies have been found, 12 people have been rescued and many are still missing. Let us see what happened and why…
read moreThe Goods and Services Tax (GST), implemented in July 2017, marked a significant change from the traditional tax linked to production to a tax based on consumption. The new regime included public levies such as VAT, sales tax, entry / subsidy tax,…
read moreRussian Coronavirus (Covid-19) Vaccine Almost nine months after the Covid-19 outbreak, Russia became the first country to grant regulatory approval to a Covid-19 vaccine, dubbed “Sputnik V” (an reference to the world’s first satellite) for civilian use, President Vladimir Putin said on…
read moreThe catastrophic explosions in Beirut on August 4, which left more than 200 dead and 6,000 injured, revived anti-government protests in Lebanon. Last Sunday, thousands of demonstrators threw stones in central Beirut, where the Lebanese parliament is located. The protests, which began…
read moreIt is well known that Covid-19 forced shutdowns in various countries have resulted in lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and air pollution. Now, in a study published in Nature Climate Change on August 6, researchers from the University of Leeds and the…
read moreAs the rising bill for defense imports over the past two decades has limited India’s strategic rise, the goal of making the country self-sufficient in defense production has been on the priority list of the ministers of the India, Defense, especially after…
read moreA massive cluster of sunspots, AR2770, was observed last week, spaceweather.com said using images of the Sun’s surface from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). According to the report, this particular group of sunspots has already given off a few minor space flares,…
read moreIndia’s foreign exchange reserves, hit by Covid, jumped from a record $ 11.9 billion during the week ends July 31 to a new high of $ 534.5 billion, which makes it the fifth largest reserve holder in the world. During the 10-month…
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