Day: August 11, 2020

Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani issued a decree to pardon and release about 400 controversial Taliban inmates, the Presidential Palace confirmed.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry warned against “political exploitation” from the recent explosions in Beirut.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo urged the New York City Police Department to step up enforcing social distancing rules on bars and restaurants while COVID-19 hospitalizations and ICU patients in the state have dropped to their lowest levels since March.

After Microsoft, Twitter Inc has held early talks about a potential combination with TikTok, the Chinese-owned video-sharing app that the Trump administration has declared a national-security threat, Dow Jones reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Lebanon President Michel Aoun accepted Prime Minister Hassan Diab’s resignation and asked the government to stay on in a caretaker capacity until a new cabinet was formed.

US President Donald Trump was evacuated from the Briefing Room on Monday during a daily session with reporters following a shooting near the White House.

Jharkhand Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Jagarnath Mahto has applied for admission in class-11 at Devi Mahto Inter College, Nawadih, a government affiliated inter college, in Bokaro district.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today urged the Centre to implement the government’s rural employment guarantee scheme and his party’s ‘Nyuntam Aay Yojana’ (NYAY) as an economic measure for the poor in urban and rural areas of the country amid the ongoing crisis triggered by the coronavirus outbreak.

The Tamilnadu police have arrested as many as 9,57,743 persons for defying the lockdown.

The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) is all set to offer a full semester, one-of-its-kind elective course under the inter-disciplinary stream on Biomimicry.