Day: September 5, 2020

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Child care crisis pushes US mothers out of the labour force

8:23 pm September 5, 2020

New York: Angela Wynn had just launched her own project management business, hitting a career stride after years of struggle that began with earning an undergraduate degree as a single mother. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, forcing many schools to shift online. The now-married mother of five saw little choice but to give up her […]

Biden admin rolls back Trump-era citizenship test, reverts to 2008 version

AP FACT CHECK: Trump on McCain; Biden’s stretch on virus

7:15 pm September 5, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump said he never called John McCain a loser — he did — and denigrated the record of the late Republican senator on veterans affairs despite routinely appropriating one of McCain’s crowning achievements on that front as his own. Trump distorted events in Kenosha, Wisconsin, over the past week and his own hand in them before a furor […]

Environment activists blockade UK newspaper printing plants

7:12 pm September 5, 2020

London: Police arrested more than 70 environmental activists who blockaded two British printing plants, disrupting the distribution of several national newspapers on Saturday. The group Extinction Rebellion said it targeted printworks at Broxbourne, north of London, and Knowsley in northwest England, that are owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Dozens of protesters locked themselves to trucks and bamboo scaffolding to block the road outside […]

IIT-Kharagpur researchers turn Odisha steel plant dumpsites into greenbelt

COVID-hit IIT Kharagpur imposes measures to check spread of infection

7:05 pm September 5, 2020

Kolkata: IIT Kharagpur authorities have directed its employees staying in the campus not to venture out, unless it is an emergency, between September 6 and 13 following detection of several COVID-19 cases in the institute. However, faculty members will continue to conduct classes online from home, the institute said in a notification. About 20 COVID-19 […]

Govt school teacher suspended for sending lewd messages to women teachers: Official

BodyGuard security app adds feature to help identify origin of apps, data flow

7:01 pm September 5, 2020

New Delhi: SafeHouse Technologies has added a new feature to its mobile security app BodyGuard that enables users to identify the origin of applications installed on their Android smartphones as well as flow of their data from these apps. The new feature ‘Patriot’ enables smartphone users to have clear visibility on the flow of their data from all the […]