Day: June 15, 2021

Brazil kicked off a Copa America tournament that has been opposed by some members of its own team with a 3-0 Group A win over Venezuela here.

Slovakia started their first major tournament with a win after shocking an uninspired Poland 2-1 through Milan Skriniar’s second half winner in their Group E curtain raiser in Saint Petersburg on Monday.

Puducherry BJP MLA Embalam R Selvam has been elected as the Assembly Speaker unopposed.

Claiming that they are among the lowest paid in the country, post graduate (PG) medical students and medical interns in Tamilnadu wore black badges to work to put forward their demand to increase stipend.

Based on inputs from experts and discussions on giving marks to class 12 students of Central Board of Secondary Education, the expert panel has reportedly decided to use a combination of scores from class 10 and 11, and internal assessment and pre-board result of Class 12.

Iran’s state TV is reporting that the country has approved an emergency use of its first domestically developed coronavirus vaccine that could bring the hardest-hit country in the Middle East closer to inoculating its citizens against Covid-19.

China’s Embassy in the UK reacted sharply Monday to the Group of Seven’s post-summit statement that called out China’s non market policies and human rights abuses.

The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 176 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.80 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

US President Joe Biden and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan held their first in-person meeting here on the sidelines of the NATO Summit, which the latter described as fruitful and sincere .

The second wave of Covid-19 has adversely impacted the domestic cement sale in the April-June quarter, reducing 25 per cent on a quarter on quarter basis but a pent-up demand is expected to push the volumes starting July-September quarter, according to a report.