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NEW DELHI, (Reuters) - This year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) will begin in Chennai on April 9 and will be played across six venues, initially without spectators, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) said yesterday.
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A November 26 letter from the presidency asked the head of Uganda's national drug authority to 'work out a mechanism' to clear the importation of the vaccines.
China has about five COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different levels of trials. It was not clear what vaccine was being imported into Uganda.
One of the frontrunners is the Sinopharm vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates said the vaccine has 86% efficacy, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
China has used the drug to vaccinate up to a million people under its emergency use program.
On Tuesday, Morocco said it was ordering up to 10 million doses of the vaccine.
Record cases
Uganda on Monday registered 701 new COVID-19 cases, the highest-ever daily increase, bringing its national count to 23,200.
The new cases were out of the 5,578 samples tested for the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Tuesday's tally was 606, the second-highest ever number of new infections, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the east African country to 23,860.
Health authorities have blamed ongoing election campaigns which have drawn huge crowds for the rise in infections.
By ASHOK SHARMA and SHONAL GANGULY Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The crowds filling shopping areas ahead of the Diwali festival of lights on Saturday are raising hopes of India's distressed business community after months of lockdown losses but also spawning fears of a massive coronavirus upsurge. People who've restricted their purchases to essentials for months appear to be in a celebratory mood and traders are lapping it up, said Praveen Khandelwal, general secretary of the Confederation of All India Traders. 'The past three days have seen a tremendous increase in customer footfall in shopping markets for festival purchases,' […]
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Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings will invest 500-billion yuan (about R1.2-trillion) over the next five years in technology infrastructure including cloud computing, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, the company said on Tuesday.
The announcement comes after call by Beijing last month for a tech-driven structural upgrade of the world’s second largest economy through investment in “new infrastructure” and a boom in demand for business software and cloud services.
Expediting the ‘new infrastructure’ strategy will help further cement virus containment success
Tencent, which is 31.2% owned by South Africa’s Naspers, is best known for its WeChat messaging app and a range of popular games but is aiming to expand into business services as consumer Internet growth slows and companies shift number-crunching from their own computers to the cloud.
Tencent has said while cloud businesses suffered amid the Covid-19 outbreak it expected to see accelerated cloud services and enterprise software adoption from offline industries and public sectors over the longer term.
18% share
“Expediting the ‘new infrastructure’ strategy will help further cement virus containment success,” Guangming Daily quoted Tong as saying.
A video of the incident, shared widely on social media, shows a black sedan charging towards a crowd with its horns blaring. Dozens of anti-racism demonstrators are heard yelling as they quickly jump out of the way.
New Delhi - Arnab Goswami, a news anchor and the editor of Republic Media Network, was arrested at his residence on Nov. 4 by Mumbai police for his alleged role in abetting an architect's suicide in 2018. His arrest in the case, which had been closed in 2019, was immediately condemned by Indian journalists and politicians. After appearing in a […]
ARM, the semiconductor firm owned by Japan’s Softbank Group, on Tuesday released new technology aimed at helping Android devices catch up to Apple’s iPhones for certain computing tasks such as videogames.
But Apple extensively customises what are called computing “cores” on its chips, while many Android devices hew more closely to designs developed and sold by ARM itself.
This is a bit like the AMG tuning shop for Mercedes engines
Apple’s iPhones, however, are believed to have at least one high-performance core that is larger than others, helping it beat Android competitors’ peak speeds on single-threaded computing tasks.
Paul Williamson, the vice president and GM of the client line of business at ARM, said the company will work with the chip suppliers to high-end Android phones to provide cores that are capable of giving a boost of performance, even if it burns a bit of battery power.
He said ARM will also give game developers tools to take advantage of the new computing power when they make apps for Android devices.
The NBA confirmed yesterday that talks are underway with Disney to restart the season this summer in Orlando, Fla.
League spokesman Mike Bass said the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association are “engaged in exploratory conversations” with The Walt Disney Company about a late-July restart at Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex.
The Athletic reported yesterday that the league sent a survey to every general manager asking their opinion about how to restart the season.
GMs were also asked to vote on the number of regular season games to be played.
All teams had played between 63 and 67 when the league put a pause to the season March 11 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
If completed, the sale would be the first American transfer of lethal drones and stealth aircraft to any Arab country.
AJMAN, United Arab Emirates - A shipyard in the United Arab Emirates has launched what it describes as an 'industry game-changer' in the form of the largest composite mega yacht in the world. Gulf Craft, based in Ajman, unveiled the Majesty 175 alongside its owner in a splashing ceremony in late November, marking the end of a four-year effort to […]
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(Reuters) - A record 269 million viewers tuned in for the opening week of this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL), which is being held in the United Arab Emirates due to the COVID-19 crisis, with viewing minutes up 15%, data released yesterday showed.
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Though born in New York City, New York’s Harlem community, Harry Keels Thomas, Jr. was raised in a middle-class neighborhood in Queens where most parents were civil servants. His mother was a social worker and his father, a World War II veteran, operated small businesses. Thomas finished Brooklyn Technical High School and graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Worchester, Massachusetts in 1978 with a degree in political science. Upon earning a master’s degree in urban planning at Columbia University, he was employed for three years as an urban planner in the South Bronx.
Encouraged by his supervisor to investigate a career in the US Foreign Service, he passed the government exam and entered the Service in 1984, the same year he married jazz singer Ericka Ovette. His first overseas assignment was as political officer at the US Embassy in Lima, Peru. Later diplomatic postings were at Kaduna, Nigeria; Harare, Zimbabwe; and New Delhi, India. By 2001 Thomas was in the White House serving under US National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice as National Security Council director for South Asia. In this capacity, he personally briefed President George W. Bush several times concerning boiling tensions between India and Pakistan. In 2003, he arrived in Dhaka, Bangladesh for a two-year stint as US Ambassador. Back in Washington in 2007, he was appointed as both Director General of the US Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources at the State Department.
In late 2009, Thomas was nominated by President Barack Obama to replace Kristie A. Kinney as U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines. Following Senate confirmation, he presented his credentials to Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on April 27, 2010 at Malacañang Palace in Manila.
The primary focus of his ambassadorship, maintenance of a mutual defense treaty, dealing with matters pertaining to immigration, and promoting economic relations beneficial to both nations, dominated his daily routine. In July and September 2013, near the end of
The December 10 announcement of the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel marked the fourth Muslim-majority nation in the past four months to officially 'friend' Israel.But it was different from September's historic Abraham Accords linking the Jewish homeland with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, and different from October's normalization agreement with Sudan. 'Morocco […]
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