News

What is Dexamethasone?

Dexamethasone is “the first drug to be shown to improve survival in COVID-19”. It is “inexpensive, on the shelf, and can be used immediately to save lives worldwide”. As the world struggles to flatten the curve of the novel coronavirus, a low-cost…
News

Who was Edward Colston, why was his statue toppled?

The toppling of Edward Colston’s statue in Bristol, a city in the southwest of England, by anti-racism protesters was greeted with joyous scenes, recognition of the fact that he was a notorious slave trader. Demonstrators on Sunday attached ropes to the 5.5-metre…
News

Very dangerous .. a new vulnerability in WhatsApp

A new vulnerability in WhatsApp revealed by global press reports, makes the user’s phone number available to everyone on the “Google” search engine. The “Times News Now” website mentioned that some programmers have spotted that vulnerability…
News

New Zealand defeats Corona and removes all pandemic restrictions

In a sign of its victory over the pandemic, New Zealand announced today, Monday, the lifting of all remaining restrictions on social separation and the economy, except for border controls, hours after announcing that no active case of the new Coronavirus had been…
News

For the First Time in Centuries, the Third Amendment Matters

And just like that, 2020 got even weirder. For the first time in … ever, people are talking about the Third Amendment of the Bill of Rights. Thanks to a misguided senator, Mike Lee, who thinks that troops that haven been called up to fight against our own people are…
News

Earthquake jolts Indonesia's Bali, no tsunami alert issued

JAKARTA, June 3 (Xinhua) — An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 struck off Indonesia’s Bali Island in the central part of Indonesia Wednesday night, the meteorology and geophysics agency said here. The agency earlier reported the quake with a magnitude of…