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Washington: US colleges hoping for a return to normalcy next fall are weighing how far they should go in urging students to get the COVID-19 vaccine, including whether they should — or legally can — require it. Universities including Rutgers, Brown, Cornell and Northeastern recently told students they must get ...

Image Source : AP IMAGE This satellite photo from Planet Labs Inc. shows Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Iran on Monday blamed Israel for a sabotage attack on its underground Natanz nuclear facility that damaged the centrifuges it uses to enrich uranium there, warning that it ...

New Delhi: The moon sighting committee of the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia, who is the custodian of Islam’s two holiest sites, said on Sunday that the first fast of the month of Ramadan (Ranzan) will be on Tuesday, April 13, while Taraweeh will begin on April 12 after Isha prayers. ...

Image Source : AP People walk inside a shopping mall with Ramadan decorations as they prepare for the holy month of Ramadan in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dubai is parting with a longstanding requirement that restaurants be covered by curtains in the daytime during Ramadan to shield the sight of ...

Dhaka: Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday (April 12), a year after she was released from jail temporarily amid the pandemic, according to media reports.  The 75-year-old Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief’s samples were sent to the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, ...

Image Source : AP Houthis launch drone attacks at Saudi airport, airbase Yemen’s Houthi militia said they launched bomb-laden drone attacks towards the Jizan Airport and King Khalid Airbase in southwestern Saudi Arabia. “The attacks targeted aircraft hangars in Jizan Airport (in Jizan city) and King Khalid Airbase in Khamis ...

Image Source : PTI/REPRESENTATIONAL. Global caseload tops 135.8 million.  The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 135.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.93 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Monday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) ...

Image Source : AP/REPRESENTATIONAL. Earthquake kills 8 in Indonesia. At least eight people were killed and 39 others injured when an earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia’s East Java province, the National Disaster Management Agency said. The agency’s spokesman Raditya Jati said on Sunday 1,189 houses were ...

NASA published an amazing image of the Martian surface covered with blue coloured dunes. The image released on the 8th of April is a combination of images taken between December 2002 and November 2004 by the Thermal Emission Imaging System instrument on the Mars Odyssey orbiter.  The picture showing the sea ...

Image Source : AP/REPRESENTATIONAL. Official admits Chinese vaccines have low effectiveness. In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the country’s top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to get a boost. Chinese vaccines “don’t have very high ...