Author: Mike Harrison

India-made mobile game FAU-G: Fearless and United Guards, which got more than 5 million pre-registrations, was released for Android on Google Play Store on 26 January. Its iOS version is expected to be launched on the App Store in 3-4 months, the company said. The game was downloaded over 1 million times on Google Play Store on day one and received an overall rating of 4.1. However, many players were disappointed with the unavailability of the battle royal mode along the lines of PUBG Mobile. Though FAU-G has 5v5 Team Deathmatch and Free for All modes, they are not accessible…

He is expected to revitalise State Department and increase diversity of its workforce After his 78 to 22 confirmation at the Senate, new U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had an administrative swearing-in on Tuesday at the State Department, after which he got to work and spoke to his counterparts from Japan, South Korea, Canada, and Mexico on the phone.Speaking to Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Mr. Blinken called the alliance between their two countries “the cornerstone of peace, security, and prosperity for a free and open Indo-Pacific region and across the globe,” according to a State Department readout of…

Both she and President Joe Biden got the vaccine live on television to help alleviate public resistance to the vaccine and reassure Americans of its safety Vice President Kamala Harris has received the second dose of her COVID-19 vaccine.Ms. Harris was given the shot Tuesday at the National Institutes of Health by nurse Judy Lai Yee Chan, who is chief of the NIH’s COVID-19 vaccine clinic. After receiving the shot, Harris joked, “when are you gonna put it in?” She called it “relatively painless.”Both she and President Joe Biden got the vaccine live on television to help alleviate public resistance…

Cayetano Heredia University, which is involved with the study, said that it did not know if the volunteer had received the vaccine or the placebo in the double blind trial A volunteer in the local Peruvian trial of a coronavirus vaccine produced by China’s Sinopharm Group Co Ltd has died from COVID-19 related pneumonia, the university carrying out the trial said on Tuesday.Cayetano Heredia University, which is involved with the study, said that it did not know if the volunteer had received the vaccine or the placebo in the double blind trial. Peru is being hit by a second wave…

Middle order batsman Matthew Wade has been dumped from Australia’s test squad for the tour of South Africa after his lean series against India.Wade will instead head to New Zealand with Australia’s Twenty20 squad for a five-match series starting Feb. 22 in Christchurch.Wicketkeeper-batsman Alex Carey has been included in the 19-man squad along with another uncapped player in Queensland paceman Mark Steketee.Openers Will Pucovski and David Warner, and fast bowlers Mitchell Starc and James Pattinson have all been selected despite suffering recent injuries.The Australian and South African cricket boards are yet to sign off on dates for the three-test tour…

Sri Lankan government has appointed a three-member committee which will make recommendations on measures to stop poaching by Indian fishermen inside the country’s waters, the Ministry of Fisheries said on Tuesday, a week after four people were killed when an Indian trawler capsized after colliding with a Sri Lankan Navy vessel.Fisheries Minister Douglas Devananda has appointed the committee of senior officials from his ministry who would be talking to all stakeholders to try and find a permanent solution to this recurring issue, officials said.Last week, India lodged a strong protest with Sri Lanka over the death of four fishermen in…

He made these accusations during his virtual address at the World Economic Forum, Davos. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday accused rich countries of “hoarding” coronavirus vaccinesAlso read: Airlifted COVID-19 vaccines to 9 countries, will gradually supply to WHO’s COVAX facility: India at U.N.“The rich countries of the world went out and acquired large doses of vaccines from developers and manufacturers, and some countries have even gone beyond and acquired four times what their population needs,” he said.“There’s just no need for a country, which perhaps has 40 million people, to acquire 120 million doses or even 160 million,”…

According to Nielsen, 33.8 million people watched Mr. Biden’s inauguration over 17 television networks The first inaugurations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama were the only ones to exceed Joe Biden’s in popularity among television viewers over the past 40 years.The Nielsen company said that 33.8 million people watched Mr. Biden’s inauguration over 17 television networks between 10 am and 4 pm last Wednesday. Reagan’s festivities in 1981 drew 41.8 million viewers, and Obama’s 2009 inaugural reached 37.8 million, Nielsen said.Perhaps most important to a former president known to watch television ratings closely: Mr. Biden exceeded the 30.6 million…

Five Republicans joined Democrats to reject a motion that would have required the chamber to vote on whether the trial violates the U.S. Constitution The U.S. Senate voted 55-45 on Tuesday to block a Republican effort to upend plans for former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on a charge that he incited the deadly January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.In an early test of the Senate’s impeachment drive, five Republicans joined Democrats to reject a motion by Republican Senator Rand Paul that would have required the chamber to vote on whether the trial violates the U.S. Constitution.Mr. Paul and…

Protesters attacked with iron rods, sticks and pelted stones, police say. Fortyone security personnel sustained injuries when they jumped from a height of 20 feet into a drain to save their lives when violence broke out in the Red Fort premises on Tuesday, said the Delhi police.A senior police officer said adequate number of security personnel were deployed to prevent the protesters from entering the Red Fort but they were outnumbered by the protesters.  “We just prevented the protesters from entering the Red Fort and they turned violent. They attacked security personnel with iron rods, sticks and pelted stones at…