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New Zealand has announced that it will outlaw smoking for the next generation so that those who are below the age of 14 will never be legally able to buy tobacco. The associate health minister Dr Ayesha Verrall said on Thursday that in order to create a smoke-free generation of New Zealanders, the legal smoking […]
India under Narendra Modi ranked 13th in 2021’s annual census of the Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) on slain and jailed journalists, a year that saw a record 293 journalists remaining jailed for their work across the globe as of December 1. This also marks the sixth consecutive year where over 250 journalists were behind […]
One of the hidden cables that enabled the leading lights like Nelson Mandela in the Anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa, Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim, affectionately called Ebie has died at the age of 84 at his Johannesburg home on December 6. Born on July 1 1937 to parents of Indian origin, Ebrahim’s father Mohamed Adam Mod, […]
United States health officials said that while the omicron variant of the coronavirus is rapidly spreading throughout the country, early indications suggest it may be less dangerous than Delta, which continues to drive a surge of hospitalisations. US President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, said on Sunday that scientists need more information […]
Save the much-hyped Katrina-Vicky wedding, the only other name currently trending on social media is Vishal Garg, the CEO of Better.Com. His ominous call left the 900 employees, who dialed in, without a job post the session. The Zoom call, which went viral, laid off nine per cent of its total workforce (10,000). The employees […]
In an attempt to get a vaccine certificate without being administered, a man in Italy tried to pass off a fake arm as his own at a Covid-19 vaccination clinic in north Italy. Nurse, Filippa Bua discovered the fake silicone arm while she was trying to administer the vaccine in Biella, Piedmont on December 2. […]
A woman in the UK woke up to what she describes as ‘amazing, incredible and a nightmare’ at the same time when she found out a mystery credit of £7,74,839 (Rs 7.7 crore) in her bank account. She says that she has been in confusion and had experienced anxiety over legal repercussions. The money was […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on December 1 that the first U.S. case of a new and heavily modified coronavirus variant called Omicron, discovered in Northern California, has been confirmed. The White House’s chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fawcett said the patient, who had been fully vaccinated, returned to the San […]
The Gujarat government has planned to hold the Vibrant Gujarat (10th edition) summit on January 10-12. While the roadshows promoting the summit will be held throughout December. The summit has already kickstarted in New York where Gujarat Top IAS J.P Gupta spoke about the business side of Vibrant Gujarat and how global a platform it […]
Twitter recently announced their addition to the Private Information Policy. They have included a new area of privacy called ‘private media’. Twitter already has a policy towards publishing someone else’s private information including phone number, address and IDs. However, with the addition of private media, people will not be allowed to share content without the […]
Ahmedabad-based Madhish Parikh is awarded for his work for the communities in Gujarat during Covid-19. The boy who was once mocked for aspiring to pursue community services, is now invited to Russia to participate in the International Forum of Civil Participation. He led one of the state’s largest volunteer programs – ‘Ahmedabad Fights Corona’ and […]
More than six lakh Indians have given up their citizenship in the last five years – informed the Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai to the Lok Sabha responding to a question on November 30. This statement was supported by the data available with the Ministry of External Affairs which states that a […]
On November 26, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the Omicron variant of the coronovirus as a ‘variant of concern’, following the very first case being reported in South Africa. The WHO has stated that it is working with researchers globally to understand how the variant will impact the Covid-19 pandemic. The official statement from […]
Two South African nationals have tested Covid-19 positive at the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru on November 27 which has created panic among people and health authorities over the new Omicron variant of the lethal virus. The Rural Deputy Commissioner K. Srinivas on November 27 said that further test reports would ascertain whether the South […]
The World Health Organization recently discovered a new strain of Covid-19 – B.1.1.529 to be a variant of concern and renamed it as Omicron. The variant was first detected in Southern Africa. the classification puts Omicron in the most-troubling category of Covid-19 variants along with the globally- dominant Delta. In order to slow the spread […]
Australian cricketer Tim Paine, Australian wicketkeeper and captain designate has taken ‘indefinite mental health break’, his manager has informed the world. The important decision has put the preparations for the forthcoming Ashes series in jeopardy. It has managed to put a global spotlight on the taboo subject of mental health in sports. Though even today, […]
The land of rising sun – Japan never goes out of innovation. It keeps coming up with interesting creations, in fact some are so peculiar that they go beyond our comprehension. Here are some weird things that one can only find in Japan: Octopus flavored ice-cream As much strange as it may sound, this flavour […]
Sharbat Gulla – the National Geographic magazine’s famed green-eyed “Afghan Girl” has arrived in Italy as part of the West’s evacuation of Afghans following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, said the Italian government on November 25. Italy organised her travel to Italy “as part of the wider evacuation program in place for Afghan citizens and […]
South African scientists are studying a newly identified coronavirus variant that is a cause for serious concern, country’s health department stated. Termed B.1.1529, the variant carries an unusually large number of mutations and is “clearly very different” from previous versions, Tulio de Oliveira, a bio-informatics professor who runs gene-sequencing institutions at two South African universities, […]
Choosing a partner, staying with them for the rest of your life and building a family together seems like a story straight out of a Jane Austen. Found in Southern hemisphere and known to be the world’s most reliably monogamous creatures, this seems to be a solid characteristic of Albatross birds. Unfortunately, they are facing […]
