The World Food Programme, this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, is the world’s largest humanitarian organisation addressing hunger and promoting food security. In 2019, the WFP provided assistance to close to 100 million people in 88 countries who are victims of acute food insecurity and hunger. In 2015, eradicating hunger was adopted as one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. ...

The World Health Organization reported a record one-day increase in novel coronavirus cases on Thursday, with the total of 338,779 cases in 24 hours. Europe reported 96,996 new cases, the highest total for the region ever recorded by the WHO. Deaths rose by 5,514 to a total of 1.05 million. This surpasses the previous WHO record for new cases of 330,340 ...

Today, the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 will be announced and the nominations of 318 candidates, including 211 individuals and 107 organizations will throw up finally the recipient who could be one of them or to be shared by two. It is likely that an individual with organizational background on the lines of  2004 recipient Wangari Maathai’s green belt movement ...

A combination of drugs provide near-perfect cure to COVID-19, according to doctors in AdventHealth Ocala, Florida, who are upbeat about the drug therapy called ICAM. Though the clinical trial is far away, the ICAM therapy has resulted in a 96.4% survival rate since April, said pharma researchers. ICAM is an acronym for a combination of existing medications used simultaneously on patients. ...

The Dubai International Cricket Stadium will host the seventh match of the Dream11 Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 as Chennai Super Kings (CSK) take on Delhi Capitals (DC) on Friday. CSK kick-started their IPL 2020 campaign with a win. However, they lost their second game against Rajasthan Royals. Ambati Rayudu, who scored 71 off 48 deliveries in the season opener ...

Royal Challengers Bangalore Captain Virat Kohli has been fined after his team maintained a slow over-rate during their Dream11 Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 match against Kings XI Punjab in Dubai on Wednesday, 24 September.  As it was his team’s first offence of the season under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over-rate offences, Mr. Kohli was fined ...

Rohit Sharma led from the front as Mumbai Indians (MI) beat Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 49 runs and secured their first win of the Dream11 Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. After KKR won the toss and elected to field in their first game of the season, Shivam Mavi struck early, to dismiss Quinton de ...

Renowned Indian singer and legendary S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, 74, who worked predominantly in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and Malayalam, passed away in Chennai on Thursday night after battling the Covid-19 for nearly two months. The Chennai-based MGM Hospital where the legendary singer was admitted on August 7 was put on ventilator and was on machine support till he breathed his last ...

R Madhavan and Anushka Shetty’s Nishabdham is the first tri-lingual film releasing on OTT, paving way for more multi-lingual projects on this platform.  The over-the-top (OTT)  is a streaming media service offered directly to viewers via the Internet, bypassing theatre release, cable, broadcast, and satellite television platforms, thus eliminating the traditional controller or distributors of such content. After releasing the ...

It’s Match 5 of the Dream11 Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 as Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) kickstart their season, taking on Mumbai Indians (MI) at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. While KKR will be eager to make a winning start to the season, MI will be out to prove a point as well. The Rohit Sharma-led unit ...