On February 14, 2018, a dreadful shooting took place at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. There was an Openfire with a semi-automatic rifle (AR-15 rifle) in the high school that gunfire caused a huge loss, leaving 17 people killed (14 students and 3 staff members) and 17 injured. After the Parkland mass […]
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Remy Lamah, Minister of health Guinea, told the Associated Press by phone, that for the first time, since 2016, Guinea has confirmed the Ebola virus, after a two-year (2014-2016) epidemic in West Africa finally ended, after killing more than 11,000 people. Health specialists in Guinea say these most recent cases might be a key setback […]
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The National Space Agency (NSA) said on Sunday that the UAE’s “Hope” Probe sends home first image of the Red Planet after successfully entering the Mars orbit. The image captured was of the largest volcano in the solar system, the Olympus Mons which is about two and a half times the height of the Mount Everest and […]
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On February 12, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) placed restrictions on new investments in NBFCs from countries red-flagged through the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The statement published by RBI authorities, on the banking regulator’s official website, that features the list of FATF on high-risk countries or whose name does not appear in the […]
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Millions of people on Friday night witnessed an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 around various regions near northwest India, including Delhi. The vital center was in Tajikistan. Delhi, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, and Rajasthan among others noticed quivering on late Friday night. Earthquake at an Intermediate 86 km below the surface caused […]
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Today, Yoshiro Mori, the head of Tokyo Olympics has resigned after more than a week of backlash amid his sexist comments over women which he made earlier this month. Mori quoted “Women talk too much and that meetings with many female board directors would take a lot of time”. The comment made by the head led […]
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On the February 10th, In the scrim of the Uttarakhand disaster, the Energy Resources Institute, Delhi, organized a summit, the World Sustainable Development Summit 2021, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In the conference, Modi mentioned, “We must enhance our disaster management capabilities. This will improve our human resources as well as technology”. […]
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On Wednesday, a civilian plane at Saudi’s Abha International Airport was attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, using 4 bomb-laden drones. The blaze was brought under control by the Firefighters and there were no casualties reported. Soon after the attack, Houthis claimed responsibility for the same and a military spokesman Yehia Sareai said that the attacking was an […]
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After Tesla, the social media platform Twitter Inc. bitcoin on its balance sheet, Twitter has not made any changes yet, Twitter’s, CFO, Ned Segal, told CNBC on Wednesday. In an interview with CNBC Ned Segal said, “Twitter had considered how it might pay vendors or staff using bitcoin, should they ask to transact using the […]
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Prakash Javadekar, the Minister of Information and Broadcasting, and a member of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) stated that a lot of suggestions and complaints on the regulation of OTTs have been received by people. The minister also added in his brief suggestion, “Guidelines and directions are almost ready, and will be soon implemented.” On […]