A winter storm dropping snow and ice also sent temperatures plunging across the southern Plains; prompting a power emergency in Texas a day, after conditions canceled flights and impacted traffic across large swaths of the U.S. Rotating power outages were initiated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, early Monday morning, meaning thousands […]
WTO picks First Woman, African to lead WTO( World Trade Organization) on Monday 15 February 2021. A Nigerian economist, and former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was appointed director-general of the World Trade Organization by representatives of the 164 member countries. WTO appointed Okonjo-Iweala after the last remaining rival candidate, South Korean trade minister Yoo Myung-hee, […]
A Delhi court on Sunday sent a 21-year-old climate activist to five days police custody in connection with allegedly being involved in sharing a “toolkit” on social media related to the farmers’ protest. A “toolkit” is a document created to explain any issue. It also provides information on what one needs to do to address […]
TOKYO: Japan on Sunday approved its first coronavirus vaccine, clearing the way for mass inoculations as the nation prepares to host the postponed 2020 Olympics. “The health minister today gave a special approval to the Pfizer vaccine,” the prime minister’s office said in a tweet. Japan now expected to put the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in the […]
A powerful earthquake that hit Japan on Saturday was an aftershock of the devastating 9.0 magnitude quake; that struck the same area almost 10 years ago; according to the National Meteorological Agency. The earthquake had a 7.3 magnitude and its epicenter was off the coast of Fukushima prefecture at a depth of 60 km (36 […]
The Houthi militia in Yemen attacked Saudi Arabia’s Abha Airport on Wednesday with explosive drones, leaving a passenger plane ablaze. No one was reported killed or injured in the attack, which sparked international condemnation of the Iran-backed group. The Arab coalition said it had controlled the fire on the plane at the airport. Spokesman Col. […]
At least five people were killed Thursday in a massive crash involving 75 to 100 vehicles on an icy Texas interstate, police said, as a winter storm dropped freezing rain, sleet, and snow on a large section of the United States. The number of injured was still unknown as police were still addressing the accident […]
Two Indian climbers along with their leader have been banned from mountaineering in Nepal for six years for lying to have climbed Mount Everest in 2016. The alleged fake triumph came to light after Narender Singh Yadav was nominated for the Tenzing Norgay national adventure award; after which other Indian mountaineers alleged the summit pictures […]
A major magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck in the South Pacific on Thursday. The earthquake generated a tsunami that threatened island nations in the region. The earthquake struck on Thursday local time (1320 GMT Wednesday) about 415 kilometers east of Vao in New Caledonia. The depth of the earthquake was 10 kilometers, according to the US […]
On Thursday, the spokesperson of the US State Department said that it has not changed its policy on Kashmir. The spokesperson announced this during a press briefing. While commenting on the recent tweet by the department. In which the US referred to Jammu Kashmir as “India’s Jammu and Kashmir”. Does State does not recognize this as […]
