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Typhoon Kalmaegi has left at least 85 people dead and 75 others missing in the central Philippines, many in widespread flooding that trapped people on their roofs and swept away cars in a hard-hit province still recovering from a deadly earthquake, officials said Wednesday. Among the dead were six people …
Read More »RFK Jr. ousts CDC’s entire vaccine advisory committee
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on how to use vaccines and pledged to replace them with his own picks. Major physicians and public health groups criticized the move to …
Read More »N.L. spent nearly entire $22M contingency fund on ‘skyrocketing’ costs of kids in care
Finance Minister Siobhan Coady says there was only one transfer from a $22-million contingency fund set up to cover “unforeseen expenditures” by the Newfoundland and Labrador government in the last fiscal year. Nearly all of that cash — $21 million of the $22 million available — was transferred to again address …
Read More »Atlantic publishes entire text chat about U.S. attack on Yemen shared with its editor
The Atlantic magazine on Wednesday released the entire text chat involving senior U.S. national security officials about recent strikes against Yemen’s Houthis, a top-secret conversation that had accidentally included the magazine’s editor-in-chief. The full-length disclosure follows two intense days during which senior members of the U.S. intelligence and defence agencies have struggled to …
Read More »छत्तीसगढ़ में अब आजतक के पत्रकार के पूरे परिवार की हत्या, जमीन विवाद में माता-पिता और भाई को कुल्हाड़ी से काटा – Aaj tak journalists entire family murdered in land dispute in chhattisgarh lclk
छत्तीसगढ़ में पत्रकार मुकेश चंद्राकर की हत्या का मामला अभी शांत भी नहीं हुआ था कि अब एक और पत्रकार के पूरे परिवार की हत्या कर दी गई. सूरजपुर जिले में शुक्रवार को संपत्ति विवाद की वजह से आज तक के जिला रिपोर्टर संतोष कुमार टोपो के पूरे परिवार की निर्मम …
Read More »Hockey Canada announces CEO, entire board of directors will step aside
Hockey Canada has announced its entire board of directors and its CEO will step aside as the organization confronts widespread criticism over how it handled an alleged group sexual assault involving members of the 2018 men’s national junior team. In a media statement, the sports organization confirms that, effective immediately, chief executive officer Scott Smith …
Read More »Free software advocates seek removal of Richard Stallman and entire FSF board
Enlarge / Richard Stallman speaks about free software in Athens, Greece at the Commons Fest in 2015. Richard Stallman’s return to the Free Software Foundation’s board of directors has drawn condemnation from many people in the free software community. An open letter signed by hundreds of people today called for …
Read More »Harsh Vardhan | COVID Vaccination: India will be able to vaccinate entire population soon, says Harsh Vardhan
Chennai: Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Friday said soon it would be a reality to vaccinate the entire population in the country against COVID-19 after prioritising risk groups. The Centre has started a new COVID platform to track particulars of potential vaccine beneficiaries and also …
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