Hurricane Laura is expected to cause a catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flash floods as it hits the US, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) says. Laura is currently a Category 3 storm and is due to strengthen to Category 4 before reaching Texas and Louisiana later on Wednesday. The NHC warned local residents to […]
Hong Kong anti-government protests Hong Kong police have been accused of re-writing history over their account of an attack on protesters in 2019, as two opposition lawmakers are arrested. Last year, masked men suspected to be triad gangsters attacked pro-democracy protesters and passers-by in Yuen Long, injuring dozens and shocking the city. However police now […]
The New Zealand stock exchange was knocked offline two days in a row due to a cyber-attack. NZX said it had first been hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack from abroad, on Tuesday. The exchange said the attack had “impacted NZX network connectivity” and it had decided to halt trading in cash […]
By Yasine Mohabuth BBC News, Mauritius At least 17 dead dolphins have been found on the seashore in Mauritius, more than a month after the huge oil spill caused by a Japanese-owned ship. The deaths have been caused either by the spill or the authorities’ decision to sink the ship’s stem, environmental campaigners say. The […]
Four years after a floor fight to strip Trump of the nomination, the GOP doesn’t even attempt to draft a platform, announcing that whatever Trump does is fine. By S.V. Date, HuffPost US Four years after having to quell a floor revolt designed to topple his nomination, Donald Trump on Monday won renomination from a Republican Party displaying […]
Contrary to public perception, web portals which were blocked during the campaign against the EIA 2020 on the direction of entities linked to the Narendra Modi government, continue to be under police lens. By Akshay Deshmane NEW DELHI—The Delhi Police’s Cyber Crime Cell is continuing to investigate two web portals — www.letindiabreathe.in and www.fridaysforfuture.in, the India chapter […]
The lawyer had refused to offer an apology to the court for his two tweets and said that what he expressed represented his bona fide belief which he continued to hold. By Akshita Jain The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on the quantum of sentence in the contempt case against lawyer Prashant Bhushan. The […]
“Are they good or bad?” the US president wanted to know. By Josie Harvey Sarah Cooper just got the opportunity to impersonate Donald Trump weighing in on ― Sarah Cooper. The comedian, known best for her viral lip-sync videos of Trump, hit a new milestone in her skyrocket to fame when Fox News host Steve Hilton asked the US president in […]
This is the second such incident in Uttar Pradesh in a month. By Rohini Chatterji In yet another attack on a journalist in Uttar Pradesh, a television journalist was shot dead on Monday in the state. While the police have claimed this was over a property dispute with his neighbours, his family had denied the […]
LAW The petition claimed that a majority of the country’s population belong to financially weaker sections, wherein only one person is an earning member and others in the family are solely depend on that income for their sustenance. PTI GOVERNMENT HEALTH LAW New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking formulation […]
