The COVID-19 pandemic and its implications are not only unprecedented but harrowing. We are all adjusting to new realities and grieving the loss of old ones
General Affairs
The world is facing another pandemic of plastics which is not a matter of surprise. Everyone is aware that plastic is detrimental to the health and environment.
A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Aegean Sea on Friday and was felt in Turkey, Greece Bulgaria, Cyprus, Turkey, Egypt, Greece, Libya, United Kingdom, and North Macedonia.
The southern French city of Nice was in mourning on Thursday as three people were stabbed to death in a suspected jihadist attack at a church. The police said the attacker had repeatedly shouted the phrase “Allahu Akbar”, or God is greatest, even after he had been detained by police.
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of uncertainty and dread right in the moments before a disaster of gargantuan proportions unfolds in front of our eyes.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Australia-based al-Qa’ida-associated facilitator Ahmed Luqman Talib for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, Al-Qa’ida on
Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission appears better prepared than EU member states to face the second wave of Covid-19, after learning the lessons of the chaotic and disorganized first days of the pandemic last March.
It seems that Qatar is also in negotiations to normalise its relations with Israel, following the recent normalisation of ties between the Jewish state, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain (August 2020).
India is the second country that is engulfed by the COVID-19 pandemic after the United States. With 113 K deaths, it has 7.43 million cases. On Friday, nearly 63K new cases of COVID-19 were reported in India amid a downturn in the number of new positive cases.
In some cultures of south Asia, when a couple is married, the bride or her family pays a certain amount of money or property to the groom known as “Dowry”. In other words, it is the price that the family of the groom demands to admit the bride to their household.