The worst outbreak of plague in England since black death of 1348, is the great plague of 1665-1666 when London lost roughly 15 per cent of its population, as 68, 596 deaths were recorded in the city, the true number could be over 100, 000. In late 1664, a bright comet was to be seen…
Cameron House, a Scottish luxury Hotel has been fined half a million pounds over a fire that claimed the lives of two guests. Richard Dyson, 38, and his partner Simon Midgley,32, died in the hotel blaze on the bank of Loch Lomond in December 2017. A hotel porter has been given a community payback order…
The Netherlands hit by the third night of rioting on Monday with clashes in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and The Hague, with over 184 people arrested by Tuesday morning as hundreds of rioters had looted shops, set fires, and clashed with police, who responded with water cannons. The riots followed after the Netherlands introduced a coronavirus curfew…
# Country, Total New Total New Total Active Serious, Tot Cases/ Deaths/ Total Tests/ Population Other Cases Cases Deaths Deaths Recovered Cases Critical 1M pop 1M pop Tests 1M pop World 100,463,782 181,210 2,156,009 5,306 72,485,448 25,823,956 110,204 12,889 276 1 USA 25,874,814 13,217 432,031 639 15,621,586 9,821,197 26,232 77,911 1,301 301,172,917 906,851 332,108,584 2 India…
The blaze started puffing plumes of smoke billowing from the site still under construction at the Serum Institute of India’s facilities in Pune on Thursday afternoon, which killed 5 people. The company said the production of the Oxford- AstraZenca vaccine, known as Covidshield to the locals would not be affected due to multiple production buildings…
Capitalism was stuck as it had no answers to a host of problems, including inequality, the digital divide, disease, poverty, dementia, the environmental crisis even before the 2020 pandemic. Mariana Mazzucato, a high profile economist noted for her advocacy of a more active state calls for rethinking our capabilities and role of government within the…
Bellingcat, the home-grown investigative unit, the most innovative practitioners of open-source intelligence and online journalism, self-taught internet sleuths end up solving several mega crimes of our time. Their founder, a high school dropout on a kitchen laptop tells the story of how they created a whole new category of information-gathering galvanising citizen journalists across the…
Total New Total New Total Active Serious, Tot Cases/ Deaths/ Total Tests/ Population Country, Cases Cases Deaths Deaths Recovered Cases Critical 1M pop 1M pop Tests 1M pop Other World 93,861,080 340,756 2,009,441 7,850 67,029,564 24,822,075 111,792 12,042 258 1 USA 23,900,639 48,263 398,948 881 14,118,252 9,383,439 29,224 71,979 1,201 279,812,217 842,680 332,050,357 2 India 10,541,760…
All UK-bound arrivals from South America and Portugal will be banned from Friday 04:00 GMT over the Brazilian coronavirus variant although British and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights will still be able to travel but must isolate for 10 days according to Grant Shapps, Transport Secretary. The ban applies to people who…
Midwestern Pet Foods, based in Indiana, in the US, has recalled its Sportmix brand and other labels following the death of over 70 dogs and illness in another 80. Tests showed the food had potentially unsafe levels of aflatoxins, a by-product of mould that grows on corn and other grains. The US Food and Drug…