The launch of NASA and SpaceX's Demo-2 mission to take two veteran astronauts of the former to the International Space Station (ISS) was postponed minutes before it was to go into flight due to bad weather.

Just 16 minutes to go, NASA decided to defer the blast off citing thunderstorms and lightning. The next opportunities to launch are Saturday at 3:22 pm and Sunday at 3 pm Eastern Time.

In a piece of good news for the people living in north India facing severe heatwave, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted light rains over a few places including West Delhi, parts of Haryana and parts of Uttar Pradesh.

As per the weather agency, a few places of West Delhi, Rohtak, Kosli, Hodal, Palwal, Manesar, Rewari, Sohana, Nuh, Bhiwadi, Etah, Moradabad, Amroha are likely to receive showers during the next two hours.

After social media heaped praises on ‘bicycle girl’ Jyoti Kumari, a 15-year-old teenage girl who cycled all the way from Gurugram in Haryana to Bihar's Darbhanga district with her incapacitated father Mohan Paswan seated on the carrier during the coronavirus pandemic, a famous mathematician, and Super 30 founder Anand Kumar has offered to give free IIT-JEE entrance exam coaching to the teenage girl.

An improvised explosive device (IED) recovered from a Santro car in the Ayengund area of Rajpora in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district was defused by the personnel of the bomb disposal squad in the early morning of Thursday.

A police officer said that a joint team of forces including 44 Rashtriya Rifles(RR), Pulwama police, and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) recovered the improvised explosive device (IED) after searching the vehicle.

As China has slowly returned back to normalcy after coronavirus cases began to dip in early April, the nation's government has used the pandemic as an excuse to tighten its grip on civil society. The Communist nation has released an app which monitors the health of citizens, posing serious questions about the privacy of each individual in the country.

Facing cash crunch due to the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, the Punjab government has sought a fiscal stimulus of Rs 51,102 crore from Centre to help the state overcome the economic crisis.

The stimulus package demanded by the state includes Rs 21,500 crore direct stimulus, CCL debt waiver and 100% funding of Central schemes by the Government of India, the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) said in a statement.

Gold prices touched a two-week low on Wednesday due to optimism around reopening of several economies, but increasing Sino-US frictions over Beijing's proposed security law for Hong Kong tempered losses.

Spot gold dipped 0.3 per cent to $1,705.94 per ounce by 0502 GMT, after hitting its lowest level since May 13 of $1,703.40 earlier in the session. US gold futures were down 0.6 per cent to $1,695.80, the Reuters reported.

Nokia last week suspended operations at a telecom gear manufacturing plant in Sriperumbudur of Tamil Nadu, the company said on Tuesday, after some employees tested positive for Covid-19.

Nokia did not disclose how many workers at the Sriperumbudur plant tested positive, but a source familiar with the matter said they were at least 42.

The total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection in India crossed the 1.51 lakh-mark on Wednesday, while the death toll has topped the 4,300-mark as well. At 9:30 AM on this day, the COVID-19 tally in the country has reached 1,51,767 cases, which includes 83,004 active cases; 64,426 cured, discharged, or migrated patients, and 4,337 deaths.

According to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, as many as 6,387 new COVID-19 cases and 170 deaths were reported in the country in the last 24 hours, marking a significant spike.

Even as India deals with the massive socio-economic ramifications of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak which is spreading like wildfire across the country, the state of Assam is facing a new impediment in these challenging times. Assam is facing the first wave of flash floods triggered by heavy rains due to the recent cyclonic storm 'Amphan', leading to major distress for the people in the state.

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