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Application for the International Women Scholarship (ISW) for the 2021-2022 session is now underway. This is a USA scholarship that offers the opportunity for women to study at undergraduate, graduate and Doctoral level programs at…

International students in the USA or those planning to go there for study are likely to face a new hurdle as the Trump administration is expected to introduce a new policy regarding the duration of student visas. The proposed policy will…

Educational activities in the South Korean capital Seoul and nearby areas have back to business again with schools there resuming in-person classes on a limited scale from September 21. The ministry of education has opted for resumption…

Each year nearly 700 scholarships are awarded to students from more than 110 countries.

New job creation in the USA has fallen further as the economy added just 1.4 million jobs in August, depicting slower job recovery from the pandemic. But the new job creation over the month was well in consistent with the predictions…

American author, philanthropist and already a billionaire Mackenzie Scott (50) is now the world’s richest woman with net wealth of $68 billion, says the latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Mackenzie, ex-wife of E-commerce giant Amazon’s…

China’s autonomous region Hong Kong will resume face-to-face class in schools from later September. The resumption will be in phases as classes for grades 1, 5 and 6 will re-start from 23 of the month. The same for other levels will take…

All schools in China, the most possible origin of the novel coronavirus, re-opened their doors to students on August 31, reports AP citing local authorities. The communist nation has taken the decision following gradually steady…

Usain Bolt, the world record holder Jamaican sprinter in 100m & 200m and multiple Olympic gold medalist, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Bolt’s agent Ricky Simms ON August 24 confirmed his positive test to media,…

Fortunately, there are still 12 countries or territories where no coronavirus cases are reported yet, though the virus has already spread to over 185 countries, infecting over 51.3 million people and killing more than 1.2 million as of…

Economic Zones are vital to attracting investment, creating employment and driving economy of any country. With that in mind, Bangladesh is going for establishing more of such zones for the sake of boosting its economic landscape. In…

The line of fatalities from the covid-19 is getting longer as the total toll from the disease has already crossed 800k globally. According to an AFP tally, there are now 801,447 fatalities in total out of 23,003,079 declared infections.…

Russia has now begun production of its own coronavirus vaccine `Sputnik V’ on August 15. The state news agency TASS reported quoting the country’s health ministry the same day, reports CNN. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on…

Russia has claimed that it has developed the world’s first vaccine against the novel coronavirus. The vaccine is developed by Moscow-based Gamaleya Institute and named as Sputnik-V, a reference to the 1957 launch of the world's first…

The number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus has very well crossed 21 million mark globally as the total number of cases across the world now is at least 21.8 million as of August 18, according to data from worldometer. Across…

Schools in the United Kingdom must be reopening full-time in September, says the country’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson on August 10, adding that it’s the moral duty to reopen for children’s wellbeing. Schools in England were shut in…

Former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee (84) has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Pranab himself confirmed this in a post on his Twitter account on August 10. In the post, Pranab wrote, ‘on a visit to the hospital for a…

The US economy added 1.8 million jobs in July amid the covid-19 pandemic, ignoring economists’ forecasts of 1.5 million new jobs in a survey by Bloomberg. With new employment figures, the unemployment rate in the country now decreases…

The official unemployment rate in Brazil, the second worst affected country by the novel coronavirus in the world, now stands at 13.3% in the last quarter ended in June. The rate of joblessness of 13.3% means there are now 12.8 million…

The novel coronavirus pandemic continues to rattle American economy as another 1.2 million people in the USA filed for first-time jobless benefits last week. But the figure is down from earlier period when 1.4 million did the same. The…