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London, Aug 18: An Indian-origin physician is among 19 winners of the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering President's Special Awards for Pandemic Service for exceptional engineering achievements in tackling COVID-19 throughout the UK. Ravi Solanki, a physician working on neurodegenerative diseases, along with Raymond Siems, an engineer working in machine learning, were awarded for their volunteer

Washington, Aug 18: Former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama slammed President Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention here on Monday (local time) by calling him a "wrong president" and said that the people "are living with the consequences" of the 2016 presidential elections. "So, let me be as honest and clear as I possibly can. Donald Trump is the wrong president for our

New Delhi, Aug 18 : With a spike of 55,079 cases and 876 deaths in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 count reached 27,02,743 on Tuesday, according to the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry. The country's COVID-19 count includes 6,73,166 active cases, 19,77,780 discharged/migrated patients. With 876 deaths, the toll due to the disease has risen to 51,797. The death toll had breached the 50

Bengaluru, Aug 18: Congress legislator Akhanda Srinivas Murthy, whose house was destroyed during violence that broke out in parts of Bengaluru on August 11, has demanded CBI probe into incident. Murthy told news agency over phone that he has urged Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa to give the case to CBI. "I have urged the Chief Minister to provide compensation to the people of the constituency who

Bengaluru, Aug 17: The Karnataka government would set up 16 universities and 34 autonomous educational institutions in three years, Deputy Chief Minister of the state Dr C N Ashwath Narayan said on Monday. With the setting up of the institutions, the aim is to achieve the goals of the new Education Policy by year 2030, he told a press conference. "The government of Karnataka will establish six

Newsroom, Aug 17: A doctored image of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath sitting with a plate full of pork on his side is now going viral on social media platforms. The photo is uploaded by many users on Facebook. It is also being widely circulated on WhatsApp. What’s the fact? The photo is the morphed version of the original photo where the plate beside Yogi has Hindu puja items instead

Gaza, Aug 17: The Israeli military has intensified its attacks on the Gaza Strip, with its tanks pounding several positions in the besieged enclave. "Tanks targeted a number of military observation posts” belonging to the Hamas resistance movement in Gaza early on Monday, the Israeli army claimed in a statement. The attacks, it said, came in response to incendiary balloons sent from Gaza to the

Jerusalem, Aug 17: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel is preparing for direct flights, over Saudi Arabia, to the United Arab Emirates as part of its normalisation deal with the UAE. Israel and the UAE announced on Thursday that they will normalise diplomatic relations under a U.S.-sponsored deal whose implementation could reshape Middle East politics from the Palestinian

New Delhi, Aug 17: Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra hit out at the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh on Monday, alleging that incidents of caste violence and crimes against women are rampant in the state. Attacking the Adityanath government over the killing of a Dalit village head in Azamgarh's Basgaon, Rahul Gandhi alleged that in Uttar Pradesh

A new strain of the novel coronavirus called 'D614G', deemed ten times more infectious, has been detected in Malaysia, said Director General of Health Noor Hisham Abdullah in a Facebook post on Saturday. The mutation has been spotted in three cases from a cluster which started when a restaurant owner and permanent resident returned to the country from India. It has also been detected in another