Ghaziabad, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Congress’ former MP from Ghaziabad, Surendra Prakash Goel, passed away due to COVID-19, party sources said on Friday. He was 74. Goel was elected member of Parliament in 2004. He is…
London, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) The UK government has entered into agreements with two drug makers for purchasing their potential Covid-19 vaccine doses, the companies said on Friday. As part of the deals, Johnson & Johnson’s…
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Covid work in Kerala’s Malappuram district took a turn for the worse when District Collector K.Gopalakrishnan, his deputy and 21 other of his staff in the collectorate turned Covid positive…
New Delhi, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court on Friday said it is not in favour of appointing a commission of inquiry into the alleged mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country. A bench…
San Francisco, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Microsoft has confirmed that its new foldable device Surface Duo “will receive both the Android OS updates and monthly security patches for the next three years.” According to The Verge,…
Sydney, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) In an ongoing fight against the novel coronavirus, the researchers have developed a new test that can diagnose Covid-19 in just 20 minutes. The findings, published in the Journal of Medical…
New Delhi, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) As India gears up to celebrate its 74th Independence Day, microblogging website Twitter on Friday has unveiled a specially designed emoji to honour the Indian Armed Forces, which is a…
San Francisco, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a major blow to Amazon, a court in California has ruled that the e-commerce giant can be held liable for defective products sold by third-party sellers on its platform….
Bhubaneswar, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Odisha’s coronavirus cases increased to 54,630 as 1,977 new ones were reported in the last 24 hours in the state, the Health Department said on Friday. The state’s corona death toll…
San Francisco, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Apple has released iOS 13.6.1 and iPadOS 13.6.1 to fix troubling issues in the operating systems, as well as a supplemental update to macOS Catalina 10.15.6. One can download the…
United Nations, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Two in five schools (43 per cent) around the world lacked access to basic handwashing facilities in 2019, a key condition for educational institutes to be able to operate safely…
London, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) In an eye-opening study, scientists have warned that locking down society to combat Covid-19 creates psychosocial insecurity that leads to obesity and may escalate the obesity epidemic. According to the study,…
Washington, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) The helicopter that NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is carrying to the Red Planet has been powered up and its batteries have been charged in the space environment for the…
Ottawa, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) In an open letter to the Canadian government, the country’s doctors and pharmacists have called for addressing shortages for critical drugs amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Canada’s Critical Drugs Coalition said in…
San Francisco, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Apple is reportedly planning to hold its iPhone 12 event in the second week of October, with pre-orders to take place later that week and shipments to start the week…
New Delhi, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) India’s Covid-19 tally crossed the 24-lakh mark on Friday with 64,553 new cases in 24 hours, while the toll climbed to 48,040 with 1,007 more fatalities, said the Health Ministry….
San Francisco, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has slammed his competitor United Launch Alliance (ULA), saying their rockets are worthless and the company is a “complete waste of taxpayer money”. His comments came…
San Francisco, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Soon after Apple and Google removed the popular video game Fortnite from their respective app stores for allegedly violating their in-app payment guidelines, the game maker Epic Games has filed…
New Delhi, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Facebook users especially teenagers and young adults significantly overestimate how much time they spend on the social network in a day and underestimate the number of times they visit the…
New Delhi, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) A bug in Facebook-owned Instagram stopped the photo-sharing app from removing photos and private direct messages from its servers even when the users had deleted those, the media reported. Independent…