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Activists from the Brazilian NGO Rio de Paz (Peace Rio), stand next to 100 mock graves on Copacabana beach symbolizing deaths from the COVID-19 coronavirus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AFP)

Brazil now unenviably the second in virus deaths

Brazil's health ministry recorded 909 deaths in the past 24 hours, putting the total at 41,828, and has now surpassed...

13 Jun 2020 10:37 AM IST

People gather on the street outside the closed Jingshen seafood market in Beijing on June 12, 2020. - Beijings Xinfadi meat wholesale market and Jingshen seafood market were closed for disinfection and environmental sample collection after it emerged both were visited by two newly identified coronavirus patients, local media reported. (AFP)

Beijing wholesale market temporarily shut after new coronavirus...

Authorities had earlier halted beef and mutton trading at the Xinfadi market, alongside closures at other wholesale...

13 Jun 2020 10:20 AM IST

Demonstrators pass a gay pride flag as they walk during a protest billed as Justice for Tony McDade, Sunday, June 7, 2020, in Atlanta. McDade, a black transgender man, was shot and killed by police in late May in Tallahassee, Fla., two days after George Floyds death in Minneapolis. (AP)

Trump administration reverses transgender health care protection

Sex discrimination protections will be enforced according to the plain meaning of the word sex' as male or female, as...

13 Jun 2020 9:05 AM IST

Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray

No further lockdown due to coronavirus, says Maharashtra government as...

The government reiterated that the people should refrain from crowding as the threat of coronavirus is not over yet.

13 Jun 2020 8:21 AM IST

The rescued Indians on board INS Shardul. (Twitter)

INS Shardul brings back 233 stranded Indians from Bandar Abbas in Iran

The evacuees were disembarked and were taken for medical screening at the jetty followed by Customs clearance and other...

13 Jun 2020 2:56 AM IST

A protesters sign is shown at Peachtree Plaza during a demonstration Saturday, June 6, 2020, in downtown Atlanta. Protesters were demonstrating against the death of George Floyd, who died after he was restrained by Minneapolis police on May 25. (Photo | AP)

Websites taken down, police radio radio disrupted amid Black Lives...

There were interruptions to police radio frequencies in the last weekend of May as despatchers tried to direct responses...

12 Jun 2020 8:50 PM IST

Bomb explosion in Kabul mosque kills at least 4 people

Bomb explosion in Kabul mosque kills at least 4 people

Violence has spiked in recent weeks in Afghanistan with most of the attacks claimed by the Islamic State group affiliate

12 Jun 2020 8:10 PM IST

The H-1B visa is much sought-after among Indian IT professionals. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons)

As US looks to suspend H-1B visas, Nasscom seeks exemptions for tech...

It said without H-1B, L1 workers, economic pain would worsen, industry would slow, and the timeline for treatment and...

12 Jun 2020 7:39 PM IST

People wearing face masks stand in a queue as they wait at a bus stand, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Mumbai. PTI Photo

AA Edit | Cenrtre-state unity key to winning Covid fight

This is not the first time, though, the Union government has deputed its teams to the states but the results were not...

12 Jun 2020 7:18 PM IST

This inequality is a barrier to wider equality, and we know it most affects those who are already marginalized _ people in developing countries, those on low incomes, and of course, women and girls, Tim Berners-Lee said. Men remain 21 percent more likely than women to be online, and 52 percent more likely in the least developing countries. (File Photo | AP)

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says digital divide should be...

Some 3.5 billion people nearly half the world have missed out on the lifeline the internet has provided during the...

12 Jun 2020 6:54 PM IST