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Tourists browse a gift store featuring US President Donald Trump campaign items in Keystone, South Dakota on July 2, 2020. Social media is virtually a Trump shop full of buyers. On Twitter, Donald Trumps 82.4 million followers dwarf Bidens 6.4 million. The president has spent years cultivating a ragtag digital army of meme makers and political influencers who retweet campaign messages hundreds of times daily. Trump is outspending Biden on Google and YouTube advertising by nearly 3 to 1. (Photo | AFP)

Donald Trump is way ahead of Joe Biden if this were a social media...

Trump's steady retweets of everyday users helps fans feel connected to him' while Biden remains traditional and promotes...

4 July 2020 5:02 PM IST

While a contingent of the Jammu and Kashmir police stands guard at the Sheikhs grave round-the-clock throughout the year, its neighbourhood was placed under the strict security restrictions. (Photo: PTI)

Fresh 'unlock 2' guidelines in Jammu and Kashmir; religious places to...

There will be no inter-state and inter-district movement except for those carrying valid passes.

4 July 2020 4:45 PM IST

Sex workers wait for clients in the red light district of Harare, Zimbabwe. (AP)

There is no food to take these HIV meds with, say sex workers

Studies have shown that food insecurity is a barrier to taking the drugs daily and can decrease their efficacy

4 July 2020 4:27 PM IST

UP Police personnel carrying the last remains of one of their fallen. (PTI)

Kanpur encounter: UP Police suspends Station Officer for his alleged...

The nature of allegations against Vinay Tiwari, the SO of Chaubeypur police station not disclosed.

4 July 2020 3:37 PM IST

A woman (L) sticks a blank note onto a Lennon Wall outside a pro-democracy restaurant in Hong Kong on July 3, 2020, in response to a new national security law introduced in the city which makes political views, slogans and signs advocating Hong Kongs independence or liberation illegal. (AFP)

'Hidden language': Hong Kongers get creative to mark dissent against...

Apart from word plays, residents are using even Chinese Communist Party dogma to express their frustration through...

4 July 2020 3:09 PM IST

Reliance Jios new offering JioMeet.

Reliance Jio launches its own video conferencing app JioMeet to take...

The JioMeet video conferencing app is available across Android, iOS.Windows, macOS and web since Thursday evening.

4 July 2020 2:28 PM IST

Indian firm Panacea aims to make COVID-19 vaccine. (AFP Photo)

CPI(M): ICMR hastening coronavirus vaccine to help PM Modi announce it...

The apex research body wrote to select medical institutions to fast-track clinical trials for the coronavirus vaccine...

4 July 2020 1:56 PM IST

Vaccine volunteers are seated, at the Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, Johannesburg Wednesday, June 24, 2020. (AP)

South Africa reports another record daily of confirmed virus cases

The African continent overall has more than 433,000 confirmed virus cases, while South Africa alone has 2,900 casualties...

4 July 2020 1:23 PM IST

In this June 12, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island, in Singapore. (AP)

No need to sit for talks with US: North Korea

North Korea thinks meeting with Trump would be nothing more than a political tool for Washington

4 July 2020 12:52 PM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (PTI Photo)

Rahul, Priyanka to Modi government: Listen to patriotic Ladakhis on...

Gandhi also shared a media report which showed some Ladakhis alleging that the Chinese have been occupying Indian...

4 July 2020 12:45 PM IST

In this May 11, 2013, photo, U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz approaches Busan port, south of Seoul, South Korea. (AP)

US sends carriers to disputed South China Sea during Chinese drills

China and US have accused each other of stoking tension in the strategic waterway while relations are strained over...

4 July 2020 12:42 PM IST

Representational Image. (AP)

Putin mocks US embassy in Russia for flying rainbow flag

His comments followed a nationwide vote on constitutional reforms that included an effective ban on gay marriage

4 July 2020 12:19 PM IST