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  • Sir Harold Evans Dies At 92

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    Veteran British-American journalist Sir Harold Evans dies of heart failure in New York on Wednesday, the Reuters news agency has reported. The former editor of the Sunday Times served 13 years in it, was currently the editor-in-chief of Reuters. He has been in journalism for 70 years and was an expert in investigative journalism. Notably,…

  • Bharat Biotech, US Varsity Ink Deal For Covid Vax

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    The Hyderabad-based company owns the rights to distribute the vaccine in all markets except USA, Japan and Europe. While the Phase I trials will take place in Saint Louis University’s Vaccine & Treatment Evaluation Unit, Bharat Biotech, upon obtaining the required regulatory approval, will pursue further stages of clinical trials in India and undertake large…

  • ‘Tech must solve challenges not create new ones’

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    During a speech, Microsoft CEO echoed what the world is thinking about the growing allegations around big tech companies. Satya Nadella said that technology must solve the world’s challenges and not create new ones. His remarks comes as a recent Netflix documentary ‘the social dilemma’ which highlights the exploitative practices of social medias became an…

  • US Covid 19 death toll reaches 200,000

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    US Covid-19 deaths surpassed 200,000 on Tuesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. With the national caseload topping 6.8 million, the death toll across the United States rose to 200,005, according to the CSSE, Xinhua news agency reported. New York state reported 33,092 fatalities, at the top…

  • Trump boycotts 75th UNGA session

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    US President Donald Trump, who defied the UN and unilaterally reimposed sanctions on Iran, has boycotted the world body’s 75th anniversary commemoration. Trump was listed as the first national leader to speak at the General Assembly session honouring the 75th anniversary on Monday. The President was to have sent in a pre-recorded speech like all…

  • US can’t reinstate UN sanctions on Iran: EU

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    Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has denied the unilateral announcement made by the US that all pre-2015 UN sanctions against Iran had been  restored. In a statement on Sunday, Borrell said the US unilaterally withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 and therefore “cannot…

  • Russia hopes for more equality with US: Lavrov

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    Russia is ready to work with the winner of the forthcoming US presidential election, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said here. “We will work with any government that takes office in any country, including the US. But we will talk with Washington on all issues of interest solely on the basis of equality, mutual benefit, and…

  • Trump won’t attend UN General Assembly

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    US President Donald Trump will not attend next week’s UN General Assembly (UNGA) in person, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said. Addressing reporters on Thursday while en route to a Trump campaign rally in Wisconsin, Meadows said that the President will not be in New York City for the annual gathering of world…

  • ‘Accenture Cloud First’ gets $3 Billion Investment

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      Global professional services company Accenture on Thursday announced the ‘Accenture Cloud First’ group with a $3 billion investment over three years to help clients accelerate their digital transformation. Karthik Narain, who served as the lead for Accenture Technology in North America, will lead the new venture and join the Global Management Committee from October…

  • US threatens arms embargo on Iran

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    The US has threatened to impose new sanctions to prevent foreign arms trade with Iran after the expiration of the UN embargo against Tehran. “We will return to the US to re-impose sanctions so that the arms embargo will become permanent next week,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said at a press briefing on Wednesday…

  • Adobe Posts Record Q3 Revenue

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      Riding on its growing Creative and Document Cloud business, Adobe has achieved record quarterly revenue of $3.23 billion in its third quarter of fiscal year 2020, which represents 14 percent year-over-year growth. The cloud software giant reported profit of $955 million, or $1.97 a share, on Tuesday. Digital Media segment revenue was $2.34 billion,…

  • Canada Welcomes US Decision To Drop Tariffs

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    Canada has welcomed the US decision to drop tariff on Canadian aluminum imports. At a press conference in Ottawa, the Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland welcomed the decision. “This is really a day when common sense has prevailed.” Freeland stressed that the US decision was not a negotiated agreement with Canada…

  • US Fed to offer new guidance on rates

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    While US Federal Reserve has adopted a new policy strategy on inflation, the central bank is unlikely to provide new forward guidance on short-term interest rates at its meeting this week, economists have said. During the Kansas City Fed’s annual Jackson Hole research conference held last month, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell announced that the central…

  • Human rights abuse: US to ban some Chinese imports

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    The US will block some exports from China’s Xinjiang region, over alleged human rights abuses against the Muslim Uighur minority, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced. The orders announced on Monday that “forced labour” was used to make the products, including at a “vocational” centre it called a “concentration camp”, reports the BBC.…

  • ByteDance won’t sell TikTok US to Oracle

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    In an interesting development, ByteDance has reportedly said it will neither sell TikTok’s US operations to Oracle nor give the source code to any US buyers, state-owned China Global Television Network (CGTN) reported on Monday. The report came as The New York Times and other US media outlets reported on Sunday that Bytedance, the Chinese…

  • Biden slams Trump on climate change amid wildfires

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    US Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden criticised President Donald Trump’s denial of climate change, calling the latter a “climate arsonist” as he addressed an audience in the state of Delaware about the ongoing wildfire sweeping the country’s west coast. Biden, the former US vice president, mentioned in his speech on Monday that a broad range…

  • Palestine castigates Arab, Israel normalization

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    A senior Palestinian official said that the US-brokered normalization between the two Arab states and Israel is intended for political interests of American President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain normalize their ties with Israel to support Trump’s re-election campaign and improve Netanyahu’s internal political situation,”…

  • Israel on a historic mission: Netanyahu

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    An Israeli delegation headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departed to Washington to sign normalization deals with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain. The delegation includes also the chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency Yossi Cohen and National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday. “Tonight, I’m embarking on a historic…

  • Russia slams US policy on China

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    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has criticized the US policy of forming alliances against third countries, including China. Responding to a question about Washington’s attempt to pitting other countries against China, Lavrov said “the policy is alien to us”, Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday. “Neither Russia, nor China, nor our allies ever offer someone…

  • ‘Deeply concerned’ over Turkish gas exploration: Pompeo

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    US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that he was “deeply concerned” over Turkey’s gas exploration in the Eastern Mediterranean amid growing tensions between Ankara, Cyprus and Greece. “We remain deeply concerned by Turkey’s ongoing operations surveying for natural resources in areas over which Greece and Cyprus assert jurisdiction in the Eastern Mediterranean,” Pompeo said…

  • US cop fired for punching black man

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    A police officer in the US state of Georgia has been fired after footage emerged of him pinning an African-American man to the ground and punching him as the latter reportedly refused to show his ID, the media reported on Monday. The incident took place on September 11 near the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport when…

  • Wildfire Smoke Blankets S.California

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    Southern California remained shrouded in a blanket of smoke on as two massive wildfires continued to rage in the region with little containment. A smoke advisory was in effect in most of Los Angeles County and parts of Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties due to the Bobcat Fire burning in the Angeles National Forest…

  • US Remembers 9/11 As Covid Alters Tribute Events

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    The ongoing coronavirus pandemic in the US has led to the alteration of commemoration events across the country on Friday to mark the 19th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. The 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York will open on Friday for family members of the victims after being closed for six…

  • ‘Act on perpetrators of Mumbai, Pathankot’: India, US tell Pakistan

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    In a joint statement, India and the US asked Pakistan to make sure that no territory under its control is used for terrorist attacks, and to expeditiously bring to justice the perpetrators of such attacks, including 26/11 Mumbai attack and Pathankot air base attack. The statement was issued after the seventeenth meeting of the U.S.-India…

  • Assange extradition hearing opens

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    An extradition hearing has opened at the Old Bailey courthouse in London against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The 49-year-old, who spent almost seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, faces an 18-count indictment from US authorities accusing him of recruiting hackers to steal military secrets, reports Xinhua news agency. On Monday, Assange, who sat…

  • Amazon to invest $18 billion in SMBs

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    Amazon has announced its plans to invest $18 billion this year to help small and medium businesses (SMBs) scale their operations and grow. In the next 12 months, the e-commerce behemoth will provide more than 500,000 SMBs in the US currently selling on Amazon, with online selling guidance, education, and support and the company plans…

  • Amazon inches close to drone delivery

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      Amazon has come a step closer to launching drone delivery of packages in the US after it received a crucial certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). With the possession of what is called Part 135 air carrier certificate, Amazon can run its fleet of Prime Air delivery drones, CNBC reported on Monday. According…

  • Zoom posts 355% revenue growth in Q2

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    Zoom Video Communications has posted solid results in the fiscal second quarter which ended on July 31. Its total revenue has hit $663.5 million, a growth of 355 percent year-over-year as new customers joined the platform amid COVID-19 restrictions. Zoom said on Monday that at the end of Q2 it had approximately 370,200 customers with…

  • US COVID-19 cases surpass 6 million

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    The total number of COVID-19 cases in the US surpassed 6 million on Monday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. US COVID-19 case count rose to 60,02,615, with the national death toll reaching 1,83,203, according to the CSSE, Xinhua reported. The hardest-hit US state of California reported…

  • UAE issues decree ending boycott of Israel

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    The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Saturday issued a decree to formally end its boycott of Israel amid the US-brokered peace deal to normalize relations between the two countries. The Decree comes as part of the UAE’s efforts to expand diplomatic and commercial cooperation with Israel, and by laying out a roadmap towards launching joint…

  • China warns ‘military mission’ north of Taiwan

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    China on Friday threatened to conduct a “military mission” anytime from now till September 4 in the north of the Taiwan strait, provoking Taipei to warn Beijing against any attempt to annex the democratic island nation. Global Times, the mouthpiece of the Xi Jinping government, said that China’s Maritime Safety Administration had announced that it…

  • Kamala Slams Trump’s Handling of Pandemic

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    Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris has ripped into President Donald Trump to rebuke the 2020 Republican National Convention (RNC), saying it was “designed to soothe his ego”. “The Republican convention is designed for one purpose — to soothe Donald Trump’s ego. To make him feel good. But here’s the thing, he’s the President of…

  • Musk thanks team as Tesla’s M cap hits $420 bn

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    Elon Musk thanked his hardworking team at Tesla as the electric car makers market cap reached $420 billion which is equal to the next top five carmakers combined together. Musk took to Twitter, thanking the Tesla engineers and other workers. “Thanks to a smart and hardworking team at Tesla. These sure are wild times…” Tesla…

  • US Targets CCP, PLA Over South China Sea Dispute

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    The US has imposed a visa ban on members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime, People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and some state-owned businesses responsible for the occupation and militarization of the disputed South China Sea. In a statement issued by the State Department on Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that from August…

  • Another Cold War On The Horizon?

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    The international scene is currently marked by a deteriorating US-China trade relationship, emergence of a new level of friendship between China and Iran through a long-term strategic pact and a definite operationalisation of Sino-Pak alliance against India, particularly in the months following the abrogation of Art 370 relating to Jammu and Kashmir, by the Indian…

  • US jobless claims still above 1 Million

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    The number of initial jobless claims in the US last week remained above the 1 million mark for a second straight week, painting a gloomy outlook for the recovery of a labour market ravaged by the COVID-19 crisis. In the week ending August 22, the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits decreased by 98,000…

  • US Changes Guidelines For Testing

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    The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has changed its Covid-19 testing guidelines, which no longer recommends testing for most people without symptoms. The new guidelines, updated earlier this week, asks people to get tested if they have coronavirus symptoms or have had close contact (within 6 feet of an infected person for…

  • AL WEEKEND: Will Russia Help Trump Turn The Tide

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    Will Russia Help Trump Turn The Tide; US CDS Changes Guidelines For Testing Asian Lite Daily Digital WEEKEND – Aug 28-30, 2020 Read the full edition – https://bit.ly/3hB6VfN

  • Walmart joins Microsoft in bidding for TikTok

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    Retail giant Walmart has confirmed that it is teaming up with Microsoft in a bid for China-based TikTok, the media reported on Thursday. According to a CNBC report, Walmart “is interested in buying the popular short-form video app owned by ByteDance”. Walmart shares were up nearly 5 per cent after the news. ByteDance is near…

  • Will Russia help Trump turn the tide?

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    It may seem unlikely that Trump could win re-election but then at this stage in 2016 it seemed unlikely that he would beat Hilary Clinton and get elected. Then what helped him was the intervention in the American election of Vladimir Putin. The question is what will Putin do now and when. Should Putin help…

  • Kenosha: Teenager who shot protestors arrested

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    A 17-year-old teenager has been arrested on murder charges in the US city of Kenosha, Wisconsin after two people were killed amid protests against the police shooting of an African-American man in the state earlier this week. On Wednesday, Kyle Rittenhouse was charged with first-degree intentional homicide and was arrested in his hometown of Antioch,…

  • Jacob Blake’s family to sue Kenosha police

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    The family of Jacob Blake would be filing a civil lawsuit against the Kenosha Police Department over the shooting, said a family attorney. Blake was shot by police seven times in the back at close range in Kenosha in the southeastern corner of US midwestern state of Wisconsin on Sunday. Ben Crump, one of the…

  • Redis Labs bag $100 million funding

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    Database company Redis Labs on Tuesday said it has closed $100 million (approximately Rs 742 crore) in Series F financing at a company valuation of more than $1 billion. This investment was co-led by Bain Capital Ventures and TCV, with participation by the company’s existing investors Francisco Partners, Goldman Sachs Growth, Viola Ventures, and Dell…

  • Nikki Haley: America is not a racist country

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    During the first night of the Republican National Convention (RNC), former US Ambassador to the UN and breakout Indian-American politician Nikki Haley urged citizens to re-elect President Donald Trump for four more years in the November polls and slammed the Democratic Party for making it “fashionable” to call America a “racist” country. Haley’s prime time…

  • Pence renominated for VP at Republican convention

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    The Republican National Convention started on Monday by unanimously renominating Vice President Mike Pence for the office in the November elections at a scaled-back convention in Charlotte because of the Covid-19 pandemic without his presence. The convention’s Permanent Chair Kevin McCarthy, who is the Republican leader in the House of Representatives, declared Pence’s election after…

  • Trump supporters target Indian Americans

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    US President Donald Trump’s supporters have produced a video ad targeting Indian-Americans as he campaigns against the Democratic Party ticket that has Kamala Harris, who is of partial Indian descent, as the Vice-Presidential candidate. The ad has clips from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Howdy Mody” rally in Texas last year and Trump’s Ahmedabad “Namaste Trump”…

  • Trump declares California wildfires ‘Major Disaster’

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    US President Donald Trump has declared that the California wildfires as a major disaster. The massive wildfires wreaking havoc across California, have already burnt over 1 million acres of land and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents. The President has also released federal aid help out the victims. Currently, more than 14,000…

  • $25 Bn bill passed to boost US postal services

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    The Democratic-led House of Representatives has passed a $25 billion bill to boost the cash-strapped US Postal Service (USPS) ahead of the November 3 presidential election. The legislative move on Saturday night was aimed at preventing the agency from making any reforms which could slow delivery of mail-in ballots for the election, reports Xinhua news…

  • Kamala’s story is American story: Biden

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    Democratic Party’s presidential nominee Joe Biden has said that his running mate, Kamala Harris will make a “great Vice President” with a powerful voice for the nation. In his speech on Thursday night while formally accepting his nomination at the last day of the Democratic National Convention, he spoke of her various identities that mesh…

  • Trump wants Iran sanctions back

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    US President Donald Trump said that Washington would invoke the “snapback” mechanism against Iran, seeking to restore all the pre-2015 UN sanctions against the Islamic Republic. “Today, I am directing the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, to notify the UN Security Council that the United States intends to restore virtually all of the previously suspended…