Day: February 15, 2020

Touted as India’s first spicy raw mango bar made with over 75 per cent fruit pulp, Mango Blast is made from real raw mangoes and natural spices.

Bamako, Feb 15 (AFP): Forty people, including nine soldiers, have been killed in a spate of attacks in central Mali, authorities said, with most of the deaths caused by inter-ethnic violence in the deeply troubled region. Thirty-one people were killed in an attack overnight in Ogossagou, a village mainly inhabited by Fulani people where 160 died last March in a massacre blamed on Dogon militiamen, the government said, raising the death toll. About 30 gunmen carried out the new attack, village chief Aly Ousmane Barry said.

Tokyo, Feb 15: The Indian Embassy in Japan today said it is making efforts to disembark all the Indians on board the cruise ship moored off the Japanese coast after the end of the quarantine period as authorities confirmed that 218 people, including three Indians, have been infected with the deadly disease on the ship.

Here is a youngster, who despite diagnosed with dyslexia as a child, with the right guidance and support of parents, who are both doctors, battled the odds and is now an aspiring doctor. The youngster is the daughter of Dr B Vijayalakshmi, who specialises in dermitology.

”Young Indians have a positive role to play not just in their own country but across the world. These young leaders inspire and guide us”, said Consul for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the US Consulate General in Chennai, Lauren Lovelace. She said this during a four-day capacity-building workshop for 33 youth leaders from the country in Chennai held between 10 and 14 February.

The foreign ministers of China and the Vatican have met in the first such high-level encounter between the sides, which do not have diplomatic ties, Beijing’s state media said Saturday.

Australia’s ‘black summer’ of devastating bushfires is finally coming to a close, but bitter arguments over how to tackle climate-fuelled disasters are raging on. When firefighters announced this week that all blazes in the hard-hit state of New South Wales were under control for the first time since September, the relief was palpable.

In quashing the idea of married priests in the Amazon, Pope Francis has appeased traditionalists while disappointing progressives who had hoped for a historic turning point in the Catholic church.

The 2020-2021 Tamilnadu Budget tabled by Finance Minister O Paneerselvam has given more thrust on education.

Southern Railway has announced that the budget allocation for infrastructure projects and safety works in Tamilnadu for the financial year 2020-21 is Rs 2,812 crore. According to a press release, the budget is 220 per cent more than the average annual budget outlay of 2009-14 (Rs 879 crore).