Washington, Feb 27: Facebook has doubled down on its efforts to take on the growing Chinese short-video making platform TikTok, this time by launching a new app for creating and sharing raps.
New Delhi, Feb 25: The four-hour long trading halt on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) has raised several questions among the investors and brokers who may have to face huge losses as a result of the glitch. One major question is why did the disaster recovery site not come to the rescue when it was needed the most.
The Commonwealth Secretary-General said: "Covid-19 has shone a harsh light on health inequalities within and between countries. Nowhere is this more evident than in access to vaccines.
Geneva, Feb 24: Poorer countries will most likely "bear the brunt of hundreds of thousands of needless deaths" due to inequalities in access to COVID-19 vaccines.
White supremacy constitutes a “trans-national” threat, the UN secretary general has warned. Antonio Guterres also said racist groups had exploited the coronavirus pandemic to boost their support. The danger was growing by the day, he told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday. He said: “White supremacy and neo-Nazi movements are more than domestic terror threats. They are becoming a transnational threat. “Today, these extremist.