Last week, a clip of a toddler at Muzaffarpur railway station in Bihar tugging at a piece of cloth covering his dead mother, went viral. The video left many distressed about the state of the migrant workers in the country amid the coronavirus outbreak. Shah Rukh Khan’s Meer Foundation also […]
Day: June 1, 2020
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia seeks to raise US$2.3 billion from an emergency donor conference Tuesday (Jun 2) to support war-battered Yemen as it faces a coronavirus catastrophe in the sixth year of the kingdom’s military intervention. The virtual conference, which Riyadh is co-hosting with the United Nations, comes as aid groups […]
TOKYO: Japan is engaged in dialogue with South Korea on export controls, the Japanese trade minister said on Tuesday (Jun 2), declining to elaborate on Seoul’s request for Tokyo to remove restrictions on exports of technological materials. South Korea had asked Japan to clarify its stance on the export controls […]
LOS ANGELES: Retired ring great Floyd Mayweather will pay for the funeral services for George Floyd, Mayweather Promotions chief executive Leonard Ellerbe told ESPN on Monday (Jun 1). George Floyd died last week after a Minneapolis policeman knelt on the 46-year-old man’s neck for almost nine minutes. Floyd, who was […]
WASHINGTON: Global smartphone sales saw their worst-ever slump in the first quarter as the coronavirus pandemic hit consumer spending, a market tracker said Monday (Jun 1). The Gartner survey found a 20.5 per cent drop in the first three months of the year. The plunge came amid heightened economic uncertainty […]
LONDON: Global sport is facing the “mother of all wake-up calls” as it emerges from the coronavirus lockdown, with uncertainty over what the landscape for participants and sponsors will look like. Former head of Olympic marketing Michael Payne believes that although “it will be very painful pulling through it”, sport […]
LOS ANGELES: San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich has called out President Donald Trump for a lack of leadership in the face of nationwide unrest set off by the killing of unarmed African American George Floyd last week. Popovich, a longtime critic of Trump, spoke Sunday to weekly magazine The […]
NEW YORK: Wall Street stocks finished higher on Monday (Jun 1), shrugging off unrest in many cities following anti-racism protests and worsening US-China tensions. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 91.91 points (0.36 per cent) to 25,475.02. The broad-based S&P 500 climbed 11.42 points (0.38 per cent) to 3,055.73, while […]
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to regulate social media companies’ content decisions may face an uphill battle from regulators who have previously said they cannot oversee the conduct of Internet firms. Trump said last week that he wants to “remove or change” a provision of a law that shields […]
MENLO PARK, California: Facebook and Snapchat developer Snap became the latest US companies condemning racial inequality in the United States as violent protests flared up across major cities over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died while in police custody in Minneapolis last week. The two […]