- World
US: Over 110k child Covid-19 cases reported in past week
Los Angeles: More than 112,000 child Covid-19 cases were reported in the US during the past week, a doubling of case counts from the four weeks prior, according to the latest report by…
- Middle East
Two Yemeni govt soldiers killed in roadside bomb
Aden: Two soldiers of the Yemeni government armed forces were killed and four more injured when a roadside bomb struck a military pick-up truck in Yemen’s southern oil-rich province of Shabwa, a…
- World
Australia’s economy grows 0.8% despite floods, Covid surge
Canberra: Australia’s economy grew by 0.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2022, beating economists’ expectations. According to figures published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Wednesday, gross domestic…
- Technology
Apple iOS 16 to offer revamped lockscreen with widgets, more
New Delhi: The upcoming Apple iOS 16 update is likely to come with features like a revamped lockscreen with widgets and updated Messages and Health apps. The new software update will help…
- Technology
Spotify’s failure to renew security certificate causes massive podcast outage
San Francisco: Due to an outage on podcast hosting platform owned by Spotify, Megaphone, podcast listeners could not access many of their shows for more than eight hours this week. According to…
- Technology
Facebook’s parent company to change stock ticker to META on June 9
San Francisco: Meta has announced that its Class A common stock will begin trading on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol ‘META’ prior to market open on June 9, 2022. The company said…
- India
Karnataka: Complaint against Committee Chairman over textbook revision
Bengaluru: The Karnataka textbook row has taken a new turn after a social worker lodged police complaint against Chairman of the Textbook Revision Committee, Rohith Chakrathirtha. The complaint has been lodged in…
- Technology
Amazon to end Cloud Cam service, offer free Blink Mini to owners
San Francisco: Tech giant Amazon is shutting down support for its Cloud Cam security camera and offering owners a free Blink Mini to replace it. Cloud Cam owners will be able to…
- India
Noida: Man held for thrashing 70-yr-old mother
Noida: Noida Police has arrested a 45-year-old man for thrashing his 70-year-old mother here in Gautam Budh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, an official said on Wednesday. According to the official, an…
- Sports
Indian men’s, women’s teams leave for Lausanne for FIH Hockey5s
Bengaluru: The India men’s and women’s hockey teams left for Lausanne, Switzerland in the early hours of Wednesday to participate in the inaugural edition of the FIH Hockey5s Lausanne 2022, which will…
- Middle East
Palestinian President confirms taking measures to confront Israeli escalation
Ramallah: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said the Palestinian leadership would take measures to confront the Israeli escalation against the Palestinians. Abbas made the remarks on Tuesday during a meeting with visiting…
- Middle East
Iran: Death toll reaches 36 in building collapse
Tehran: The toll in a 10-storey commercial building collapse in the southwestern Iranian city of Abadan has risen to 36, semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted a top provincial official. Speaking to reporters,…
- World
New Omicron subvariant makes up 60% of new US COVID-19 cases
Los Angeles: A new Omicron subvariant made up nearly 60 per cent of all new US cases in the latest week, according to estimates released by the US Centers for Disease Control…
- Technology
Amazon no longer offers in-app Kindle purchases on Android
San Francisco: Tech giant Amazon has informed its customers that they cannot buy books on Kindle App for Android anymore. According to an email sent to the customers, Kindle users cannot use…
- Technology
Webb telescope to explore two rocky, Earths-like planets
Washington: NASA’s much celebrated James Webb Space Telescope is just weeks away from full operation. The huge telescope plans to start it’s in-depth science investigation by exploring strange, new rocky worlds in…
