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US says that China May Have Secretly Set Off Low-Level Nuclear Test Blasts.

US says that China May Have Secretly Set Off Low-Level Nuclear Test Blasts.

China may have secretly set off low-level underground nuclear test explosions despite claiming to observe an international pact banning such blasts, the US State Department said in a report on Wednesday that could fuel US-Chinese tensions.The finding, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, may worsen ties already strained by US charges that the global COVID-19 pandemic resulted from Beijing's mishandling of a 2019 outbreak of the coronavirus in the city of Wuhan.US concerns about Beijing's possible breaches of a "zero yield" standard for test blasts have been prompted by activities at China's Lop Nur nuclear test site throughout 2019,…
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Rahul Gandhi says to the centre that lockdown doesn’t defeat coronavirus

Rahul Gandhi says to the centre that lockdown doesn’t defeat coronavirus

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said today that a nationwide lockdown shall only be purposeful in pausing the deadly coronavirus, but it cannot defeat it. He recommended that the government should go for testing "aggressively and strategically". Rahul Gandhi also suggested through his statements that there should be two zones in India - hotspot and non-hotspot."In no way does a lockdown defeat the virus. It helps only to stop the virus for a short while. The only way to do this is to increase testing," the Congress MP said, addressing the media through a video app.
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Pandemic could trigger social unrest in some countries: IMF

Pandemic could trigger social unrest in some countries: IMF

New waves of social unrest could erupt in some countries if government measures to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic are seen as insufficient or unfairly favoring the wealthy, the IMF said in a new report on Wednesday. Governments had already spent nearly $8 trillion to combat the pandemic and mitigate the economic fallout, but more fiscal stimulus would be needed once the crisis abated, the global lender said in its semi-annual Fiscal Monitor. The spike in spending would sharply widen fiscal deficits, with global public debt set to rise 13 percentage points to more than 96% of gross domestic product in…
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Bolt goes viral with ‘social distancing’ Olympic photo

Bolt goes viral with ‘social distancing’ Olympic photo

Retired track star Usain Bolt showed he's still a few steps ahead when he posted an AFP picture of him outstripping his rivals at the Beijing Olympics with the cheeky caption: "social distancing". Bolt's post, featuring a picture by AFP photographer Nicolas Asfouri of the 2008 Olympics 100m final, blew up on social media, drawing more than half a million likes and 90,000 retweets. It showed the Jamaican crossing the finish line at the Bird's Nest stadium in a then-world record time of 9.69sec, glancing round from lane four as his despairing competitors trail two paces behind. "Savage", commented one…
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Pulitzer Prize announcement to be postponed due to pandemic

Pulitzer Prize announcement to be postponed due to pandemic

The Pulitzer Prize Board will postpone the announcement of this year’s winners because some board members have been busy covering the global coronavirus outbreak, the organization announced Tuesday. The announcement of Pulitzer winners in journalism and the arts will be postponed from April 20 to May 4, the board said. Pulitzer Prize administrator Dana Canedy said the board includes many journalists who are on the front lines of reporting on the coronavirus pandemic. “As they focus on this critical mission, this postponement will provide additional time to thoroughly evaluate the 2020 Pulitzer finalists,” Canedy said.
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Rakul Preet Helps 200 Families in Delhi Slum

Rakul Preet Helps 200 Families in Delhi Slum

At the time of crisis, those celebs who respond and serve the needy are often hailed as the real big stars. And though some put the numbers they have donated on social media, some don't. But they silently doe their charity and it looks like even starlet Rakul Preet Singh comes under the same category. Apparently Rakul's family is right now settled in Delhi and they are said to have identified a slum of 200 families which stays close to their Gurgaon residence in the national capital. Along with the people of their society, Rakul Preet's father and other family…
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Family – A short film by Indian Superstars

Family – A short film by Indian Superstars

The corona virus lockdown has impacted daily wage workers and the poor. Many NGOs, volunteers are helping the people who are in need in whatever way they can. Simultaneously, the virus has affected the film industry too. It's the cine workers who are struggling to make the ends meet and the respective industries have stepped up to help these people. But now the whole of Indian film industry has come together and a short film has been made with Superstars of Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and other languages. Well the short film starts with India's biggest star Amitabh…
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Corona: WhatsApp Limits Message Forwarding

Corona: WhatsApp Limits Message Forwarding

In order to slow down the Corona Virus misinformation which is widely shared online, the cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP service WhatsApp has decided to limit the message forwarding on its platform. Since WhatsApp amounts to the largest sharing of information across the globe, Facebook Inc's WhatsApp tightened message forwarding limits on Tuesday and the decision is taken at its head office at San Francisco. The new move restricts its users in sharing forwarded content one chat at a time. "We believe it's important to slow the spread of these messages down to keep WhatsApp a place for personal…
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Spain’s coronavirus deaths near 14,000 as pace ticks up again

Spain’s coronavirus deaths near 14,000 as pace ticks up again

The pace of coronavirus deaths in Spain ticked up for the first time in five days on Tuesday, with 743 people succumbing overnight, but there was still hope the national lockdown might be eased soon. Tuesday’s toll from the health ministry compared to 637 people who died during the previous 24 hours, taking the total to 13,798, the second highest in the world after Italy. Still, the proportional daily increase of 5.7% was about half that reported a week ago. “It is normal to have some oscillations … What matters is to see the trend and the cumulative data,” said Maria Jose…
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