Chandigarh, June 12 The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Saturday announced an alliance for the 2022 Assembly elections in Punjab. The parties had jointly contested the 1996 Lok Sabha elections, where the Akalis had won eight, while the BSP three out of the totalRead More

Dallas, June 12 The airline industry’s recovery from the pandemic passed a milestone as more than 2 million people streamed through US airport security checkpoints on Friday for the first time since early March 2020. The Transportation Security Administration announced Saturday that 2.03 million travellers were screened at airport checkpointsRead More

London (Ontario), June 11 Thousands of people marched on Friday in support of a Canadian Muslim family run over and killed by a man driving a pick-up truck last Sunday in an attack the police described as a hate crime. The four victims, spanning three generations, were killed when NathanielRead More

New Delhi, June 12 Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of over 40 farmer unions, on Saturday formed committees to address complaints and issues raised by women farmers at the protest sites in the backdrop of alleged sexual assault of a woman activist. The committees formed at all the protestRead More

New Delhi, June 12 India on Saturday refuted a report which claimed that its Covid deaths could be “five-to-seven times” higher than the official number, saying the assessment is based on extrapolation of data without any epidemiological evidence. In a statement, the Union Health Ministry also slammed the publication, withoutRead More

Ottawa, June 11 Canada will share up to 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines with countries in need, though a portion of this has already been announced, a government official said on Friday, adding that the domestic vaccination campaign will not be affected. The announcement will be made at theRead More

New Delhi, June 11 An independent appraisal by UNDP has shown significant improvements in India’s 112 aspirational districts across health, education, and financial inclusion sectors as compared to the rest of the districts. The report handed over on Friday by UNDP India Resident Representative Shoko Noda to NITI Aayog Vice-ChairmanRead More

New Delhi, June 11 After the American drug regulator USFDA declined to grant emergency use authorisation to Bharat Biotech made Indian Covid jab Covaxin asking it to pursue full approval through a different pathway, the Hyderabad-based firm on Friday said it was pursuing the FDA advice and full approval, whenRead More

A Canadian family and U.S. experts alike say a mentally ill man from Mississauga, Ont., who was convicted for his role in an online terror plot while a teenager shouldn’t be in a supermaximum security prison in Colorado. Instead, they say he should be sent back to Canada where heRead More

A House of Commons committee is proposing a sweeping series of reforms to the way the federal government makes decisions on contracts after releasing a report on the WE Charity scandal. Among the nearly two dozen recommendations in its 116-page report, tabled today, the standing committee on access to information,Read More