Regional, 27th Jun 2020, News & Stories from India

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27 Jun 2020

Regional, 27 Jun 2020

Shrine of Guru Nanak Dev in Kartarpur, Pakistan. (PTI)

India calls Pakistan's offer to reopen Kartarpur corridor a 'mirage of goodwill'

Sources said there should be at least seven days of advance notice as per the pact.

27 Jun 2020 10:53 PM

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar

Sharad Pawar reminds Congress: Don't forget China seized 45K sq km land in 1962

Pawar also said the Galwan Valley incident in Ladakh cannot immediately be labelled as a failure of the Defence Minister

27 Jun 2020 9:59 PM

Physician assistant gets ready for COVID-19 testing at Xpress Urgent Care in Tustin, California. (AP)

US sees biggest yet single-day surge in coronavirus cases

The worst-affected in the world right now, US’s daily tally reported 45,242 new cases today

27 Jun 2020 8:41 PM

The researchers said those behind the attacks include two Russian nationals, Igor Olegovich Turashev and Maksim Viktorovich Yakubets, indicted in the United States in December for their involvement in an entity known as Evil Corp which is accused of hacking US and British banks.

Russian hackers increasingly targeting US corporations with ransomware

Cybersecurity firm Symantec says it has identified at least 31 targets in the United States, including eight Fortune 500 companies.

27 Jun 2020 8:12 PM

Varun’s next with Stree director

The actor has prima facie agreed to work with the Stree filmmaker and is waiting for both scripts Amar is working on

27 Jun 2020 7:57 PM

Alia brushes up her Telugu

For Alia this is the first non-Hindi language film and we are sure that she will be up to the task

27 Jun 2020 7:46 PM

Centre acts after locusts attack Haryana, UP; Rahul Gandhi seeks compensation for farmers

The locusts keep flying during day time and settle down only after dark in the evening.

27 Jun 2020 7:38 PM

Private Sonam’s public bashing

Despite Sonam setting her Twitter on private to curb trolling, netizens troll her using her hashtag

27 Jun 2020 7:35 PM

Farewell F&L: Bipasha wonders how she became dusky = sexy

Bipasha praises the multinational brand that decided to rebrand its skin product and shares her journey

27 Jun 2020 7:35 PM

KJo rumoured to quit MAMI

Rumour is he was very upset with the recent social media backlash post Sushant Singh’s death

27 Jun 2020 7:24 PM

Freddy Birdy, a bar and restaurant designer, is also an artist and adman.

Some professionals have more Instagram followers than movie stars, here's five of them

These 'influencers', who offer more than just pretty pictures, are the rage on the social media platform

27 Jun 2020 7:07 PM

Assam flood situation worsens; one more dead, 2.6 lakh people affected (PTI)

Assam flood scenario worsens, over 2.6 lakh people affected

Around 19,000 people have taken shelter in relief camps

27 Jun 2020 7:02 PM

Yashwant Sinha announces a new political front in Bihar

Yashwant Sinha didn’t elaborate much about his new political front source said that the focus would be to pose a challenge to the state govt

27 Jun 2020 6:48 PM

A man takes a nap under a tree in a closed commercial street after a lockdown was reimposed as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Chennai. AFP Photo

Garment MSMEs to Tamil Nadu: Don’t even think of extending lockdown

Over 400 MSME's in garment exports urge CM not to extend lockdown

27 Jun 2020 6:36 PM

Health workers screen residents for COVID-19 symptoms at Dharavi, one of Asia's biggest slums, in Mumbai, India, Wednesday. AP Photo

Amitabha Bhattacharya | The summer of discontent: Let’s learn to live in Covid-19 era

Would things have been better if the lockdown was announced earlier, say in late February or early March?

27 Jun 2020 6:22 PM

A videograp of Mary Jo Laupp. She told the New York Times that one of her first projects would be to help build a group of pro-Biden content creators on TikTok.

‘TikTok Grandma’ whose call to action led to poor show at Trump rally will work to get Biden elected

Mary Jo Laupp’s TikTok video was viewed over two million times and boosted by American fans of South Korean pop music, also known as K-pop.

27 Jun 2020 6:17 PM

Statues of people long dead, and possibly of zero relevance to our times, should be dismissed, ignored, and removed if they have become painful reminders of something hateful in the past. PTI Photo

Shobhaa De | 150 years of Mahatma: Why are we so touchy?

In the case of Mahatma Gandhi, why is our national outrage this pronounced?

27 Jun 2020 5:41 PM

In this file photo taken on June 2, 2020 A looted and boarded up Microsoft store is seen after a night of protest over the death of an African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis in Manhattan in New York City. Microsoft's physical stores, which sold Surface tablets, laptops and XBox gaming gear, never gained the momentum of rival Apple. Its retail team members will “serve customers from Microsoft corporate facilities and remotely provide sales, training, and support,” the company said. (Photo | AFP)

Microsoft products will now be sold solely online, all 80 retail stores shut

It will keep four locations as Microsoft Experience Centers in London, New York, Sydney and the company’s Redmond, Washington headquarters.

27 Jun 2020 5:36 PM

In Kerala, Modi hails Indian Constitution and calls it 'guiding light' of his government

He was addressing the 90th birthday celebrations of Rev Joseph Mar Thoma Metropolitan in Pathanamthitta.

27 Jun 2020 5:25 PM

Just as white skin is preferred to the Indian complexion, so too is credibility attached to ideas that come from the West

AA Edit | Lovely, but not fair yet

The Anglo-Dutch conglomerate is trying to realign its marketing strategies with the new anti-racist, anti-colourist environment

27 Jun 2020 5:12 PM

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