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Indias first COVID-19 vaccine gets nod for human trials. (AFP Photo)

US-based BCM ties up with Hyderabad's BE for COVID-19 vaccine...

BE engaged in licence negotiations with the BCM Ventures team after initial discussions on Baylor's technology

28 Aug 2020 4:25 PM IST

Protesters prepare to march against the Sunday police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha. (AP)

Calm prevails for second night in Kenosha, latest Black Lives Matter...

Police kept a low profile, and the Wisconsin National Guard troops activated to help restore order remained largely out...

28 Aug 2020 1:05 PM IST

Metropolitan Police are confronted by protestors as police carry away a handcuffed protestor along a section of 16th Street, Northwest, renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza. (AP)

Get Your Knee Off Our Necks: US capital braces for mass anti-racism...

Huge number of demonstrators are expected to gather for a march to mark the date of Martin Luther King's historic 'I...

28 Aug 2020 12:32 PM IST

US President Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech for the Republican Party nomination for reelection during the final day of the Republican National Convention at the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AFP)

Joe Biden will be destroyer of American greatness: Trump

Trump said that Biden and his party repeatedly assailed America as a land of racial, economic, and social injustice

28 Aug 2020 10:55 AM IST

Lara Trump, Jared Kushner, Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Tiffany Trump and Donald Trump Jr. arrive before President Donald Trump speaks from the South Lawn of the White House on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention. (AP)

What virus? At GOP's convention, pandemic is largely ignored

Only few convention speakers made reference to the virus, while others discussed it in the past tense

28 Aug 2020 10:14 AM IST

Damaged homes sit among flood water after Hurricane Laura passed through the area August 27, 2020 in Holly Beach, Louisiana.(AFP)

Laura thrashes Louisiana, nearby states face tornado threats

But despite a trail of demolished buildings, a sense of relief prevailed that Laura was not the annihilating menace...

28 Aug 2020 9:03 AM IST

Rapper Kanye West. (AP File)

Kanye West sues Ohio election head to get on November ballot

West's emergency filing comes days after nearly 15,000 signatures and other paperwork he submitted earlier this month...

27 Aug 2020 3:08 PM IST

Sudha Sundari Narayanan (third from left), a software developer from India, was among those sworn in as American citizens. (via Twitter handle @welprich)

Indian who sworn-in as US citizen by Trump didn't know it was being...

Narayanan said she did not have an opinion about Trump's immigration policies and that she found out the ceremony was...

27 Aug 2020 1:36 PM IST

A protester holds a Black Lives Matter sign during a demonstration against the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. (AFP)

17-year-old arrested after 2 killed during unrest in Kenosha

I just killed somebody, the teenager, carrying a semi-automatic rifle, could be heard saying at one point

27 Aug 2020 11:51 AM IST

The purchase falls under the Trump administrations Operation Warp Speed, intended to rush a COVID-19 vaccine to the market by the end of 2020. (Representational Image: AP)

Moderna COVID-19 vaccine appears to work as well in older adults in...

Moderna's candidate, mRNA-1273, is already in late-stage human trials testing its ability to safely prevent infection

27 Aug 2020 11:25 AM IST

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...

27 Aug 2020 10:33 AM IST

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...

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 IST