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A top official in South Africa's governing African National Congress appeared in court on Friday on corruption charges, a case that has deepened divisions within a party whose rule has been unchallenged since the 1994 end of whiteminority rule.

The High Court has directed the state (on Thursday) to immediately ban the sale and use of fireworks by the people and organisations and to immediately clamp down and close shops which are selling fireworks, a Government Order (GO), dated November 12, sai...

Last year's Oppo Inno Day was held a month later than this year in December. The company had then showcased its first take on a pair of AR headsets and an in-display selfie camera technology.

Kamra's statement comes a day after Attorney General K K Venugopal consented to the initiation of criminal contempt proceedings against him for a series of tweets following the apex court giving interim bail to Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami.

On Friday morning, Pakistani soldiers reportedly used small arms and mortar shelling to target army positions in Gurez, Tangdhar and Uri sectors. It is not known what led to the current escalation, but firing started all of a sudden in the three sectors.

Even with daily testing numbers remaining at very high levels of more than a million per day, India’s weekly test positivity is under five per cent, the threshold suggested by the World Health Organisation to get out of lockdown.

The NSE Nifty 50 index and the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex were down about 0.05% at 12,685.2 and 43,333.69, respectively, by 0526 GMT. The indexes, which are on track for a second straight week of gains, had risen as much as 0.36% during the session.

The neighbouring cities of Faridabad (327), Ghaziabad (360), Noida (331), Greater Noida (329), and Gurgaon (328), which fall in the National Capital Region (NCR), also recorded their AQI is the 'very poor' category.

Germany's Daimler AG and its China commercial vehicle partner Beiqi Foton Motor Co plan to invest 2.75 billion yuan ($415.32 million) to build MercedesBenzbranded Actros heavy trucks for the first time in China, a document showed.

Hindus worship Goddess Lakshmi and offer their prayers for wealth and prosperity on this day. After the puja, people light diyas and exchange sweets and gifts among families, friends, and relatives.

Trade frictions between the United States and China may not ease in the near term even if Joe Biden becomes president of the United States, former Chinese finance minister Lou Jiwei said on Friday.

A traditional art form, Rangoli is a coloured pattern formed on a surface or a flooring using varied hues and objects. Apart from colours, dry flour or sand, flower petals and coloured rice is also used.

Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler of Georgia unleashed her first fullscale TV attack ads on Democratic challenger the Rev. Raphael Warnock on Thursday, as the final battle for control of the U.S. Senate intensifies ahead of their January runoff.

Mainland China reported eight new COVID19 cases on Nov. 12, down from 15 cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority reported on Friday.

President Donald Trump has publicly disengaged from the battle against the coronavirus at a moment when the disease is tearing across the United States at an alarming pace.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told an allstaff meeting on Thursday that former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon had not violated enough of the company's policies to justify his suspension, according to a recording heard by Reuters.