On Wednesday, at Qatar Open, Roger Federer made a winning return to competitive tennis after being out of action for 405 days during which he underwent two knee surgeries. Federer, was made to work hard for his 7-6 (8), 3-6, 7-5 win over British No. 1 Dan Evans in their 2nd round outing in Doha. Here it is to be noted that before his return, Roger Federer had last played in the semi-final of the Australian Open 2020. He had pulled out of the US Open and French Open last year and delayed his return in 2021, thereby missing the season-opening Grand Slam in Melbourne. Federer rubbished speculation of retirement and stressed he has set sights on Wimbledon and Tokyo Olympics this year.
China has launched a digital COVID-19 vaccination certificate for its citizens planning cross-border travels, joining other countries issuing similar documents as they seek ways to reopen their economies.
Foreign minister Wang Yi said the aim of the certificate was to achieve mutual verification of information such as nucleic acid testing and vaccination and contribute to safe and orderly interaction of people. It was not immediately clear with which countries China was talking to about getting its Covid-19 certificate recognized.
As vaccines are globally being rolled out, a few countries including Bahrain have already introduced certificates identifying vaccinated people, and the European Union agreed to develop vaccine passports under pressure from tourism-dependent southern countries.
According to a new analysis released by the UNICEF statement, five countries, including India, account for about half of the total child brides in the world on the occasion of International Women's Day.
According to the analysis 'Covid19- A threat to progress against child marriage', 10 million additional child marriages may occur before the end of the decade, threatening years of progress in reducing the practice. Worldwide, an estimated 650 million girls and women alive today were married in childhood, with about half of those occurring in Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, India and Nigeria, according to the analysis.
To off-set the impacts of Covid-19 and end the practice by 2030 – the target set out in the Sustainable Development Goals – progress must be significantly accelerated, it said. “One year into the pandemic, immediate action is needed to mitigate the toll on girls and their families.
Lucknow: In the forest of Bharsoli Mustafabad, a village under Kasganj district of Uttar Pradesh, there was a stir on Tuesday morning when the bodies of a young man and a woman were found hanging on a tree. Police reached the spot and took the bodies of both of them down and sent them for postmortem. An initial police investigation has revealed a love affair. The young men and women were residents of the same village. The relatives of both have not yet filed a complaint.
Police station Mohanpura of police station Kasganj was informed that in the forest of village Bharsoli Mustafabad, the young man and the dead body of the girl are hanging on the tree. The police reached the spot on this. Police brought down the dead bodies. The deceased was identified as Bhura alias Nishant son Shailendra Singh (19 years) and the girl Ranjana daughter Nepal Singh (18). Both villages were residents of Bharsoli Mustafabad.
For the past several days, the sequence of crime and incidents has been increasing steadily, is getting even faster, these very small incidents have started catching up now, every day there is some or the other incident. While being a victim of the crime plot, today we have brought such a news for you, after listening to which you too will be shocked. Yes, this case is not from anywhere else but from Equatorial Guinea. So let's know about it in detail ...
The serial bomb blasts on Tuesday, March 07, 2021 in a military barrack in Equatorial Guinea have claimed 20 lives, and more than 600 people have been badly injured. Officials have said that the explosion in the military barrack happened around 4 pm local time. The military barrack is located near Mondong Nukuntoma in Bata. The President said in the statement that "the explosion was so strong that it has damaged almost all the houses and buildings in Bata".
Chandigarh: A budget of one lakh 68 thousand 15 crore was presented for the financial year 2021-22 in the Punjab Legislative Assembly today, in which a provision has been made to waive loans of Rs. Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal has also announced to increase the pension of the elderly from Rs 750 to Rs 1,500 a month while presenting the budget of 2021-22 in the Vidhan Sabha.
Along with this, he has also proposed to increase the amount given under the Shagun scheme from Rs 21 thousand to Rs 51,000. Badal said that in the next phase of crop loan waiver scheme, the state government will waive crop loans of 1.13 lakh farmers for Rs. 1,186 crore and landless farmers for Rs. 526 crore. This is the last budget of the current tenure of the Amarinder Singh government of the state. Assembly elections are proposed in the state in the early months of next year.
Indian nationals have been advised against travelling to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait via the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Embassy of India in Abu Dhabi announced Monday.
The Indian mission in its tweets, stated that due to Covid-19-enforced restrictions on incoming passengers, it would not be possible for Indian nationals to transit via Dubai and Abu Dhabi to neighbouring Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Hence, all travellers, who are stranded in the UAE, are advised to consider their return to India and make further travel plans only after restrictions in the final destination countries are lifted, the advisory stated.
Since December 2020, at least 600 Indians, who wanted to travel to Saudi Arabia, are stranded in the UAE, according to an Indian Consulate in Dubai official. The official said: “Due to the fast-evolving international travel protocols, the missions strongly advise all travellers to avoid going to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait using transit routes to avoid the inconvenience of being stranded in the UAE.”
Bengaluru: US multinational technology major Amazon India today announced the expansion of Amazon Food, its food delivery service across Bengaluru. As part of this, Customers can order food from popular and hygiene-certified restaurants and cloud kitchens around them with convenient doorstep delivery.
Notably, Amazon Food is now available across 62 pin-codes covering key localities like Whitefield, HSR, Sarjapur, Koramangala, Indiranagar, MG Road, Jayanagar, JP Nagar, Frazer Town, Malleshwaram, Rajajinagar, Vijayanagar and many more.
Prime members get free delivery on all their orders, while other customers can pay a nominal delivery fee of Rs 19 for their orders from Amazon Food. As a limited period offer, packaging fees is waived off for all customers. They can enjoy amazing offers from restaurants along with Amazon Pay cashbacks.
Bhopal: On the occasion of International Women's Day, Women Constable Meenakshi Verma has been made the Home Minister of the day. The duty of this..|News Track