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Outgoing US President Donald Trump has signed into law the ‘Malala Yousafzai Scholarship Act’, reports Dawn Online. The act would award at least 50 percent of scholarships under a merit-based higher education scholarship programme to…

International students have launched a petition aiming to ask the Australian government to allow them return back to the country as they are stuck in their own countries due to border closures over the pandemic, reports Reuters. As per…

The harmful shutdown of all educational institutions in Bangladesh continues as the authorities have extended again the running closures until January 30, reads a press release. However, Qawmi madrasas will enjoy exemption from the…

Southeast Asian nation Malaysia is now in nationwide state of emergency as the King Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah declared it January 12 morning to curb the spread of Covid-19 . Such measure under the Federal…

The 2020 edition of the Globe Soccer Awards, aka the Dubai d'Ors, was given on December 27 at a Gala ceremony at the iconic Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest building in the world now. The top award ‘Player of the Century’ was won by…

All educational institutions in Malaysia registered under the Education Ministry will be reopening according to the 2021 academic calendar, says the ministry in a statement January 2. This comes as even Covid-19 cases continue to climb…

1. Where was the 15th G20 Summit this year held? Ans : Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia. This year the summit was held virtually due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. 2. Who has won the Booker Prize 2020? Ans : Douglas Stuart.…

Outgoing US President Donald Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Lea Trump (38) is considering a run for Senate in her home state of North Carolina in 2022, reports AFP citing original reports published in several US media. The reports come as…

American tech giant Apple has launched on November 10 its first Mac computers that are run on its state of the art new M1 processor, reports the Verge. The M1 chip run computer is called ‘MacBook Air’. Other new devices of the tech…

Malaysia has postponed all public examinations of the year 2020 until February and March next year following recent spike in novel coronavirus cases in the country. The Education Minister Mohd Radzi Md Jidin announced while holding a…

Voters in Dixville Notch, a village of 12 residents in the US state of New Hampshire, kicked off Election Day at the stroke of midnight today by voting unanimously for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, reports AFP. The vote and count only…

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her new cabinet on November 2 following a landslide victory in the general election held on October 17. The PM called her new cabinet an “incredibly diverse” one that includes the…

Three more Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Assam and Uttarakhand have reopened all higher educational institutions including universities and affiliated colleges from November 2. The decision of reopening educational institutions…

Getting job in India is becoming tougher day by day in recent times particularly amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic, shows professional networking platform LinkedIn's data, adding people from different sectors including recreation &…

A final shortlist of top 10 persons for the Global Teacher Prize 2020 has been made out of a long list of 50 consisted of teachers from every corners of the globe. The list includes Malaysia’s Samuel Isaiah, Ranjitsinh Disale…

Common Admission Test (CAT) 2020 students’ admit cards got released by Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) on the official website of the exam which is http://iimcat.ac.in. The candidates are advised by the authority to visit the…

American tech giant Apple Inc. has on October 19 launched a live-streaming station called ‘Apple Music TV’, making its foray for the first time into music video landscape, reports Business Insider. The round the clock music service will…

Students in three Indian states--Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Sikkim have started getting back to schools with a hiatus of about 7 months over the coronavirus pandemic. Students in the states have begun returning to schools from October 19…

University of Oxford researchers have claimed they have developed a test method capable of identifying the novel coronavirus in less than five minutes, adding it could be used in mass testing at airports and businesses, reports Reuters.…

Winners of the Nobel Prizes 2020 in all six categories-Peace, Literature, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and Economics-have already been announced. On October 9 as usual, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the last one of the five,…