Month: October 2024

Study offers clues to why COVID-19 vaccine protection wanes quickly

October 30, 2024 admin

A health worker prepared a dose of a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in Barboursville in the U.S., November 4, 2021. | Photo Credit: Sholten Singer/AP The ideal vaccine offers nearly complete protection against infection and mild disease in just one dose. It is simple to administer and doesn’t have any adverse effects. The protective immunity lasts…

Science

Germany recalls ambassador from Iran as it protests the execution of an Iranian German prisoner

October 29, 2024 admin

Germany protested to Iran on Tuesday over the execution of Iranian German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces, and recalled its Ambassador to Berlin for consultations. The Foreign Ministry wrote on the social network X that Iran’s charge d’affaires in Berlin was summoned to hear “our sharp…

World

Sheikh Hasina trying to provoke armed rebellion, says BNP

October 29, 2024 admin

File photo of Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina | Photo Credit: AP NEW DELHI Several audio recordings of purported conversations between deposed Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina and members of her party, the Awami League, have stirred controversy in Bangladesh, with her opponents accusing her of trying to incite violence as the interim government plans…

World

US Welcomes India-China Border Disengagement

October 29, 2024 admin

US also said that the US has not played any role in the India-China resolution. Washington: The US State Department has welcomed the ‘reduction in tensions’ along the India-China border following the recent disengagement of troops of the two countries, along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). US State Department Spokesperson, Matthew Miller, said that…

Nation

Oil firms hike commission paid to dealers, no rise in fuel prices

October 29, 2024 admin

Image used for representation only. | Photo Credit: Murali Kumar K State-owned fuel retailers on Tuesday hiked commission paid to petrol pump dealers but there will be no change in retail petrol and diesel prices. Petrol and diesel prices will fall in Odisha, Chhattisgarh, and Himachal Pradesh due to a rationalisation of intra-state freight. “IndianOil…

Business

Nancy Pelosi’s Husband’s Attacker Jailed For Life

October 29, 2024 admin

San Francisco: A man who attacked the elderly husband of former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hammer was sentenced to life in prison without parole Tuesday by a California state court, the district attorney general’s office said. David DePape, who broke into the couple’s San Francisco home and bludgeoned Paul Pelosi in a…

World

Ukraine Should Strike Back If North Korean Troops…: Biden

October 29, 2024 admin

Biden said that Ukrainians should strike back if North Korean troops cross into Ukraine. Washington: U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday Ukraine should strike back if North Korean troops crossed into Ukraine, adding he was concerned by the presence of North Korean troops in the Kursk region in Russia. “I am concerned about it,”…

World

Kamala Harris’s Last Campaign Speech At Site Of January 6 US Capitol Attack

October 29, 2024 admin

Washington: Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris will On Tuesday symbolically conclude her presidential campaign by delivering her “closing argument” from the same location in Washington D.C. where Republican Donald Trump incited a mob to attack the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 by claiming that the election was stolen from him. “We’re going to the…

World

77% Of Women Feel Unsafe On Delhi Buses After Dark: Report

October 29, 2024 admin

25 per cent of the surveyed women have increased their use of public buses. New Delhi: Over 75 per cent of women feel unsafe commuting in Delhi buses after dark, even as the city government’s fare-free bus travel scheme has crossed the milestone of 100 crore ‘pink’ tickets issued to women, a report said. In…

Nation

What is clicking on the U.S. presidential campaign trail

October 29, 2024 admin

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are so far apart that only a continental drift can bring them closer. It is not just that one is African-American and the other White. Or that one is a woman and the other is a man. Or that Kamala Harris is a Californian and Donald Trump a New Yorker….

World