Year: 2020

Only half of Americans would get access to Covid-19 vaccine: Poll

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Only about half of Americans say they would get a Covid-19 vaccine if the scientists working furiously to create one succeed, according to a new poll. That’s surprisingly low considering the effort going into the global race for a vaccine against the coronavirus that has sparked a pandemic since first emerging from China late last year. But more people might eventually roll up their sleeves: The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, released Wednesday, found 31% simply weren’t sure if they’d get vaccinated.…

Situation at Sino-India boundary ‘stable and controllable’, says China

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ China on Wednesday said the situation at Sino-India boundary was “stable and controllable” and indicated bilateral negotiations were on at diplomatic and military levels to de-escalate tension between border troops. The Chinese foreign ministry said it was firm about protecting its territorial sovereignty. Indian and Chinese soldiers are said to be locked eyeball-to-eyeball at four locations along the line of actual control (LAC), which experts said could escalate into a standoff more serious in nature than the one that chilled ties in Doklam (Donglang in Chinese) in…

Eid Mubarak from CCUSA

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Chairman and CEO of CCUSA Mahammad Qureshi.

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BOCA RATON/FL – USA: Cricket Council USA will like to send  Eid Mubarak wishes to all cricketers, administrators, and fans across the world. Chairman and CEO of CCUSA Mahammad Qureshi says: “To our well-wishers and friends we want you to make this festival a memorable one. “Festivals usher in new hope and happiness. They make people feel joyous and rid people of the burdens of routine life. Therefore, it calls for celebrations. We have all been through a lot given the dreaded COVID 19 Pandemic and is still going through the…

At least 57 dead as Pakistan plane crashes in residential area in Karachi

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ At least 57 people were killed when a Pakistan International Airlines plane with 99 people on board crashed into a densely populated residential area near the Jinnah International Airport here on Friday, officials said, nearly a week after the COVID-19-induced air travel restrictions were lifted by the government. Flight PK-8303 from Lahore was about to land in Karachi when it crashed at the Jinnah Garden area near Model Colony in Malir, minutes before its landing, they said. The PIA Airbus A320 carrying 91 passengers and eight crew…

PIA plane with 99 people on board crashes in Karachi, 66 dead

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ At least 66 people were killed when a Pakistan International Airlines plane with 99 people on board crashed into a densely populated residential area near the Jinnah International Airport here on Friday, officials said, nearly a week after the Covid-19-induced air travel restrictions were lifted by the government. Flight PK-8303 from Lahore was about to land in Karachi when it crashed at the Jinnah Garden area near Model Colony in Malir, minutes before its landing, they said. The PIA Airbus A320 carrying 91 passengers and eight crew…

Rejected Avengers Endgame sequence reveals Robert Downey Jr sendoff you’ve never seen. Until now

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More than a year after its release, the design firm Exception Perception has revealed unused versions of the end credits sequence for Avengers: Endgame. Marvel fans would recall that the sequence paid special tribute to the six original stars of the franchise, Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo and Jeremy Renner. The sequence in the film showed a brief montage of the actors’ journeys in the series, and juxtaposed their names with their signatures, while Alan Silvestri’s music played in the background. On its website, Exception Perception has written…

Cyclone Amphan: Bangladesh shifts over two million people; armed forces put on alert

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The cyclone is expected to make landfall at 6pm on Wednesday, State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Enamur Rahman was quoted as saying by the report.(AFP) COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Bangladesh has shifted over two million people to storm shelters and deployed the military to deal with the powerful cyclone ‘Amphan’ which is set to make a landfall on the costal districts, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Wednesday. Authorities have already raised the alert level to ‘great danger’ for some districts in the country as the cyclone, the most…

India’s Kohli says father refused to bribe way into team

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“Virat Kohli lost his father at the age of 18. ©AFP” /> New Delhi (AFP) – India captain Virat Kohli has told how his late father refused to pay a bribe to get him into a Delhi state junior team when he was a teenager. The world’s top ranked one-day batsman did not identify who had demanded the bribe but said he was rejected by the team, a rebuff that left him “broken”. “In my home state…sometimes things happen that are not fair,” the Times of India newspaper and other…

Saliva on ball, neutral umpires set to be axed due to virus

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“Former Australia bowler Ryan Harris shines the ball. ©AFP” /> London (AFP) – Cricketers are set to be banned from using saliva to shine the ball due to the coronavirus pandemic, following recommendations by the International Cricket Council. The ICC’s influential cricket committee met via conference call on Monday and made the recommendations after a briefing from the governing body’s medical advisory committee. It was unanimously agreed that the “elevated risk of transmission” caused by polishing the ball using spit meant the traditional method must be shelved for now, though…

Scarface actor Geno Silva dies at 72

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Actor Geno Silva, best known for his role in the 1983 crime drama Scarface, has died. He was 72. Silva passed away on May 9 at his home here of complications from frontotemporal degeneration, a form of dementia. His family shared the news of his demise, reports hollywoodreporter.com. During his four-decade career, Silva also featured in Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit (1981), Robert Towne’s Tequila Sunrise (1988), Steven Spielberg’s Amistad and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (both released in 1997), David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive (2001) and F. Gary…