Ministry of Defence CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF PROCEEDS ON A VISIT TO SRI LANKA Posted On: 12 OCT 2021 11:13AM by PIB Delhi General MM Naravane, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) has proceeded on a visit to Sri Lanka from 12 to 16 October 2021. This is his first visit to Sri Lanka as…Continue Reading
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare COVID-19 Vaccination Update – Day 269 India’s cumulative vaccination coverage crosses 95.82 croreMore than 59 lakh Vaccine doses administered today till 7 pm Posted On: 11 OCT 2021 8:43PM by PIB Delhi India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has crossed95.82 Crore(95,82,64,532) today. More than 59 lakh (59,62,469) Vaccine Doses have been…Continue Reading
LONDON (AP) — British police have announced they will not take any action against Prince Andrew after a review prompted by a Jeffrey Epstein accuser who claims that he sexually assaulted her.Virginia Giuffre claims she was trafficked by Epstein to have sex with Andrew in London in 2001, when she was age 17 and a…Continue Reading
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Sydney hairdressers, gyms, cafés and bars reopened to fully vaccinated customers on Monday for the first time in more than 100 days after Australia’s largest city achieved a vaccination benchmark.Sydney planned to reopen on the Monday after 70% of the New South Wales state population aged 16 and older were fully…Continue Reading
Stocks closed broadly lower after a day of choppy trading on Wall Street Monday as investors prepare for a busy week of corporate earnings and inflation updates. The major indexes made early gains, but slowly fizzled as the day progressed. The S&P 500 fell 30.15 points, or 0.7 percent, to 4,361.19. The benchmark index gained…Continue Reading
The International Swimming Federation (FINA) said on Monday it would set up an integrity unit as part a number of reforms to improve the governance, transparency and culture of the organisation. FINA’s Reform Committee published a report recommending changes to address concerns over the governing body’s operational independence and possible conflicts of interest in handling…Continue Reading
The New South Wales (NSW) government has announced new financial support measures to help build confidence in small businesses to invest in re-opening from lockdowns fully. Eligible businesses with an annual turnover between $75,000 and $50 million will be able to claim a grant of up to $20,000 for perishable goods or $10,000 for non-perishable…Continue Reading
On Oct. 5, the premier watchdog group OpenSecrets reported that lobbying groups spent over $151.2 million on voting legislation in the first half of this year to ensure U.S. voting laws are conducive to the needs of Democratic lawmakers. After Democrats assumed control of the government in 2021, the principal focus of their lobbying has…Continue Reading
SEATTLE—Rewards totaling $2.5 million are now being offered for information that helps solve the killing of federal prosecutor Thomas C. Wales in Seattle 20 years ago. Nicholas Brown, newly sworn in as the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington, announced Monday at a ceremony marking the anniversary of Wales’ death that the Justice…Continue Reading
Singapore, Oct 11, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Ether Cards, the leading dynamic NFT platform whose technology has brought real-world utility to the creation of dynamic NFTs of Steve Aoki, LaMelo Ball, and Mike Tyson NFTs, has airdropped 27 million Dust tokens to the entire Ether Cards NFT collection which consists of 10,000 unique NFTs.…Continue Reading