The Queen is to stress the value of self-discipline and resolve during the coronavirus pandemic in a special address to the nation on Sunday. In a special broadcast, Queen Elizabeth thanks NHS and key workers for their efforts against the coronavirus/ The Queen also thanks “those of you who are staying at home, thereby helping…
Bengaluru-based bio-tech start-up in south India launches India’s first rapid Covid-19 home test kit. which can deliver results in 5 minutes. The test requires users to clean their finger with an alcohol swab and prick it with the needle provided. The cartridge displays the results from the blood sample. The kit received approval from Indian Council of…
Country, Total New Total New Total Active Serious, Tot Cases/ Deaths/ Total Other Cases Cases Deaths Deaths Recovered Cases Critical 1M pop 1M pop Tests World 1,226,650 25,197 66,550 1,862 253,864 906,236 44,704 157 8.5 USA 312,435 1,078 8,486 34 14,828 289,121 8,206 944 26 1,663,353 Spain 130,759 4,591 12,418 471 38,080 80,261 6,861…
Country, Total New Total New Total Active Serious, Tot Cases/ Deaths/ Total Other Cases Cases Deaths Deaths Recovered Cases Critical 1M pop 1M pop Tests World 1,199,027 82,365 64,644 5,470 246,166 888,217 42,324 154 8.3 USA 309,728 32,567 8,441 1,037 14,741 286,546 8,206 936 26 1,626,287 Spain 126,168 6,969 11,947 749 34,219 80,002 6,532 2,699 256…
Kishore Mahbubani, a former president of the UN Security Council (Jan 2001, May 2002), a scholar and diplomat with unrivaled access to policymakers in Beijing and Washington, has given us a definitive guide to the deep fault lines in the relationship and assessing the risk of any confrontation, and an honest appraisal of the…
Lamorna Ash’s evocative, lyrical and profound memoir of a Cornish fishing village community in Newlyn, the largest working fishing port in Britain and highlights the meditation on the soul of a place in the face of globalisation. #Twenty-Two-year-old Londoner Ash, found gutting fish is a messy business as she was onboard 79ft beam trawler dipping…
Judith Flanders, a New York Times-bestselling historian, in her latest book “A Place For Everything” is the story of how the alphabet order our world from the library of Alexandria in the third century BCE, to Wikipedia and Google, reveals what a bizarre, improbable creation of the alphabet is as writing has been invented…
A Sinister Man or a Romantic Man? A Saturn Herald Short Story. He couldn’t believe their interest in this ‘girl’, In many ways she was so normal. She was single – which is ‘normal’ (ish)/ and a mother of grown children – and had become a grandmother while he had been employed to investigate her.…
Keir Starmer (57) wins a decisive victory over two rivals Lisa Nandy and Rebecca Long-Bailey and vowed to lead party “into new era with confidence and hope”. The lawyer, who became an MP in 2015, won on the first round of voting with more than 50 per cent of ballots cast After his victory Sir…
Emily Dickinson’s poetry is apt for lockdown when most of us might be craving for the succour of a natural world, which at least for now remains off-limits. “Hope” is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tune without the words- And never stops- at all- And sweetest- in…