Day: June 3, 2020

Super cylone, floods, controversies - the unwanted guests in Odisha's 2020 pandemic woes

Cyclone Nisarga weakens further; now a deep depression

11:59 pm June 3, 2020

New Delhi: After hitting the Maharashtra coast with wind speeds of up to 120 kmph on Wednesday afternoon, Cyclone Nisarga weakened into a ‘deep depression’ late evening, the India Meteorological Department said. The process of landfall, which began at 12.30 PM near Alibaug in Raigad district, had completed by 2.30 PM, IMD director general Mrutunjay […]

Trump denies calling US war dead 'losers,' 'suckers'

Trump tries religious gestures to hike support amid protests

11:55 pm June 3, 2020

Washington: Cloaking himself in religion for the second day in a row, President Donald Trump sought to seize the moral authority to justify his hard line against demonstrators protesting the killing of another black man in police custody and at the same time mobilize his religious conservative base. Trump signed an executive order on international […]

New report finds anti-Semitism on the rise in Czech

11:50 pm June 3, 2020

Prague: The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the Czech Republic doubled last year, the Jewish community said Wednesday. In its annual report, the Federation of the Jewish Communities said there were 694 anti-Semitic attacks in 2019 compared with 347 in the previous year. A majority of the attacks 95 per cent were registered on the […]

Thousands of Americans gather across country to remember Floyd after memorial

US service sector contracts for second month in May

11:44 pm June 3, 2020

Washington: The US services sector shrank for a second month in May as the coronavirus pandemic triggered shutdowns and layoffs around the country. Activity did rise from levels last month that had not been seen since the recession. The Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday that its service sector index stood at 45.4 last month, […]

The U.S. reckoning on race, seen through other nations' eyes

Black Lives Matter solidarity protests in UK over George Floyd killing in US

11:35 pm June 3, 2020

London: Hundreds of protesters gathered at London’s Hyde Park on Wednesday as part of a series of Black Lives Matter protests planned in solidarity with demonstrators in the US over the killing of African-American George Floyd in police custody. Organisers asked people to stretch out their arms in order to try and maintain the two-metre […]

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