Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, referred to the incident as an act of “wilful terror.” According to Ukrainian officials, Russia launched more than 70 drones into Kyiv overnight, resulting in at least five injuries, making it the worst drone strike to date in the conflict. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated on the Telegram app that…
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, a top health official who oversaw the agency’s contentious response to the COVID-19 pandemic, is leaving the institution at the end of June, the CDC said on Friday. Walensky led the institution for two years while the pandemic was at its height. Her…
Britain’s Duchess of York had surgery for breast cancer. Sarah Ferguson, The Duchess of York, speaks during a public memorial for singer Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of the “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Elvis Presley, at Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. Britain’s Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, has been diagnosed with…
Police fire tear gas on Indian farmers marching to capital, govt offers talks Indian police fired tear gas on Wednesday to scatter thousands of protesting farmers as they sought to resume a march to Delhi after rejecting a government offer on prices for their produce, while authorities offered a fresh round of negotiations. Fleeing the…
A 10-year-old Lucknow boy, who had gone to spend his summer vacations at his maternal grandparents’ house in Raebareli, was kidnapped and murdered allegedly by a person living in the neighbourhood, said Raebareli police officials on Thursday. Police have arrested one person in this connection and claimed that he kidnapped the body with intent to…
The U.S. government will stop distributing free doses of Merck & Co’s (MRK.N) COVID-19 antiviral treatment molnupiravir by the middle of next month and expects it to be sold on the commercial market instead. The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said in a statement…
Switzerland has instructed Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) to cancel or reduce all outstanding bonus payments for the top three levels of management and examine whether already those already paid out can be recovered, the Federal Council said on Wednesday. Under Swiss banking law, the Federal Council can impose bonus-related measures on a systemically important bank…
n Uruguay’s cities and towns, paintings of white daisies, each with a missing petal, have appeared on walls and at windows in recent weeks, in memory of the people who went missing during the country’s military dictatorship that began 50 years ago. Thousands in the small South American country are set to take to the…
Papalpreet was arrested in Hoshiarpur on Monday in a joint operation of the Punjab Police and the Punjab counter-intelligence Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh’s close aide Papalpreet Singh has been arrested on Monday. Papalpreet Singh has been with the radical Sikh leader as he escaped the police dragnet on March 18 when Punjab Police launched a massive…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stones and inaugurated development projects worth over ₹3200 crore in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said his government has focused on cooperative federalism while underlining the importance of the development of states to that of the country as he laid the foundation stones and inaugurated…
