Day: June 23, 2020

Powerful earthquake shakes southern, central Mexico

11:55 pm June 23, 2020

Mexico City: A powerful earthquake centered near the resort of Huatulco in southern Mexico swayed buildings Tuesday in Mexico City and sent thousands into the streets. Seismic alarms sounded midmorning with enough warning for residents to exit buildings. Power was knocked out to some areas, but there were no immediately reports of damage or injuries. […]

Trump says he’ll sign executive order to punish vandalization of monuments

11:52 pm June 23, 2020

Washington: US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he will soon sign an executive order to punish all those responsible for vandalization of historic monuments and statues. “I will have an executive order very shortly. And all it’s really going to do is reinforce what’s already there, but in a more uniform way,” Trump told reporters […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Africa’s 1st COVID-19 vaccine trial starting

11:46 pm June 23, 2020

Johannesburg: Researchers in South Africa say the first COVID-19 vaccine trial on the African continent is set to get underway on Wednesday. The University of the Witwatersrand says the vaccine developed by University of Oxford researchers is already being evaluated in a large trial in the UK and a similar trial is beginning in Brazil. The announcement came hours after South Africa reported that total […]

Ramdev’s Patanjali claims to have COVID-19 medicine; Ayush Ministry frowns

11:41 pm June 23, 2020

Haridwar: Yoga guru Ramdev’s herbal medicine company Patanjali Ayurved on Tuesday claimed to have discovered a medicine that could cure coronavirus in just seven days – a claim that the Ayush Ministry scoffed at by seeking stopping of advertisements for the drug. While Ramdev claimed that Ayurved-based ‘Coronil and Swasari’ medicine have shown 100 per cent favourable results during clinical trials […]

Latur school conducts classes amid outbreak, management booked

11:33 pm June 23, 2020

Latur: A case was filed in Latur in Maharashtra on Tuesday against the management of a school for reportedly conducting Standard X classes despite orders to remain shut during the coronavirus-induced lockdown, district officials said. A video of classes in the school in Udgir, which has reported several COVID-19 cases, had gone viral on Monday. A […]

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