In focus, 27th Aug 2020, News & Stories from India

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27 Aug 2020

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The government has decided that interest on late payments will be charged on net, not gross, liability.

Government to forego Rs 46,000 crore of interest on delayed GST payment

But businesses that had already paid their taxes are likely to claim a refund

27 Aug 2020 10:43 AM

US Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the third night of the Republican National Convention at Fort McHenry National Monument in Baltimore, Maryland. (AFP)

GOP convention defends police as racial tension rises anew

VP Mike Pence seized on the national reckoning over racial injustice to argue that Democratic leaders are allowing lawlessness to prevail

27 Aug 2020 10:33 AM

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi asserted that a fair and inclusive COVID-19 vaccine access strategy should have been in place by now. (PTI Photo)

Government's unpreparedness alarming: Rahul on COVID vaccine access strategy

Human trials on various COVID vaccines are currently underway across the world, including in India.

27 Aug 2020 10:05 AM

Glib and bland: Liberalism’s illiberal legacy

In this critique of liberalism, Pankaj Mishra lobs 16 Molotov cocktails at an ideology that pretends to be humanity’s saviour

27 Aug 2020 10:01 AM

Waves from the storm surge from Hurricane Laura began to come ashore at Sea Rim State Park on August 26, 2020 in Sabine Pass, Texas. (AFP)

Laura strengthens to Category 4 hurricane, threatens catastrophic storm surge at US Gulf Coast

The storm surge is expected to reach levels not seen in Louisiana since Hurricane Audrey in 1957, the Governor said

27 Aug 2020 10:01 AM

The balloting was held amid the coronavirus pandemic, but the commission said it took all necessary measures so voters could cast their ballots. (AFP)

Egypt to prosecute some 54 million who boycotted Senate vote

It is unlikely to lead to actual trials as Egypt does not have the financial means needed to prosecute such a large majority of the voters

27 Aug 2020 9:39 AM

Why did this Trump supporter call him an Ulloo?

‘Trump is wise like an owl or as you would say in Hindi - President Trump is wise like an ulloo,’ former TV host Tomi Lahren said

27 Aug 2020 9:19 AM

Australian white supremacist Brenton Tarrant attends his third day in court for a sentence hearing in Christchurch on August 26, 2020.(AFP)

New Zealand court sentences Christchurch mosque shooter to life imprisonment without parole

Tarrant admitted to 51 charges of murder, 40 counts of attempted murder and one charge of committing a terrorist act in 2019

27 Aug 2020 8:50 AM

Leopard kills five-year-old girl. (Representative Image)

Leopard kills five-year-old girl in Maharashtra, drags her into Chandrapur forest

While Lavanya was playing outside in the staff colony area, a leopard attacked and dragged her into bushes, officials said

27 Aug 2020 4:04 AM

Accenture plans to reduce workforce. (Photo- PTI)

Accenture to lay off 5% of its 'low performing' workforce

Accenture has a global workforce of around 5.13 lakh people and out of them, about 2 lakh are in India

27 Aug 2020 3:29 AM

Dwayne Bravo first man to reach 500 T20 wickets. (AFP Photo)

Bravo! T20 champion sets new record, first to take 500 wickets

The 36-year-old West Indies all-rounder reached the landmark in the Caribbean Premier League in his native Trinidad

27 Aug 2020 3:00 AM

COVID-19 can affect almost all organs, say experts at AIIMS. (Representational Image- AFP)

Not just lungs, COVID-19 can affect almost all organs: AIIMS experts

From what we thought of as a viral pneumonia has a lot of other manifestations which are beyond the lungs, Dr Guleria said

27 Aug 2020 2:16 AM

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