Kamala Harris Says Trump Not Credible on Covid-19 Vaccine
Democratic US vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris said she would not take President Donald Trump’s word alone on any potential coronavirus vaccine. In an interview excerpt broadcast by CNN on Saturday, Harris said Trump had a track record of suppressing expert opinion about the coronavirus pandemic and that she worried that might happen again in the case of a prospective vaccine. READ MORE
How UP Cong Chief is Helping Gandhis Reshape Party
Recently, when asked by News18 about his style of politics, Lallu had said he is humbled by the appreciation he gets from his top leadership but “I put myself in the front because I feel it is my responsibility to lead my workers from the front”. However, amid his new style of political activism, a persisting challenge before him and his team is to win over the older lot. Many from the old school of politics within the party are not comfortable with the changes. In the run-up to 2022 assembly elections, it is an issue that needs to be resolved at the earliest. READ MORE
AAP Conducts Caste-based Survey in UP Ahead of 2022 Polls
The politics nowadays is no longer just ‘politics of real’ but has turned into politics of perception. The political parties are inventing new strategies to make, remake and manipulate the perceptions for producing public opinions. Surveys on caste and community also contribute to it in their own way in framing perception and forming public opinions. Recently, an interesting incident took place in Uttar Pradesh. A number of people in the state received automated calls asking them to respond to questions related to Yogi Aadityanath government’s inclination towards certain castes. The UP government lodged an FIR against unidentified people for conducting the caste-based survey. READ MORE
‘No Signs of Life’ in Beirut Rubble amid Search for Survivors
Rescue workers digging through the rubble of a Beirut building for the third day on Saturday said there was no longer hope of finding someone alive more than a month after a massive port explosion shattered Lebanon’s capital. About 50 rescue workers and volunteers, including a specialist team from Chile, had worked for three days to locate anyone after sensors on Thursday detected signs of breathing and heat. READ MORE
Austrian Man Spends 2.5 Hours in Box Filled Ice Cubes
An Austrian man beat his own record for the longest full body contact with ice cubes on Saturday. Josef Koeberl managed to stay 2 hours, 30 minutes and 57 seconds inside a custom-made glass box filled up to his shoulders with ice cubes. More than 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of ice cubes were needed to fill up the box, after Koeberl stepped inside wearing nothing but swim trunks. READ MORE
SSR Sent Funds for His Dogs a Day Before Death: Caretaker
A day before he died, actor Sushant Singh Rajput had transferred funds to Raees, the caretaker of his Lonavala farmhouse, for regular expenses of Amar, Akbar and Anthony, the three pet Rottweilers he kept at the place. “On June 14 afternoon, I saw the news that Sushant sir has committed suicide on TV news channels and at first I could not believe what I was seeing. Just a day before, he had transferred money to my account to take care of his pet dogs, Amar, Akbar and Anthony,” Raees recalled, speaking to IANS. READ MORE
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