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Modi offers India’s help to China to deal with coronavirus outbreak Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written to Chinese President Xi Jinping, offering India’s assistance to China to deal with the coronavirus outbreak. In his letter, the Prime Minister expressed solidarity with the President and the people of China over the outbreak of the virus in the country, official sources said. Mr. Modi offered India’s assistance to China to face the challenge, besides conveying condolences at the unfortunate loss of lives due to the outbreak, they said. A total of 811 people have died of the coronavirus infection so far while the number...

Man City have been a ‘huge disappointment’ in the Premier League – Bernardo Silva Bernardo Silva has conceded that Manchester City‘s latest title defence has been a “huge disappointment”, but he still believes there is plenty for the English champions to play for between now and June. City have slipped 22 points behind runaway Premier League leaders Liverpool this season, with three draws and six defeats on their record after 25 fixtures. Source: Goal

Why Krishen Khanna still paints at 95 As Krishen Khanna leads you into his basement studio in Delhi, it is not the strong smell of colour or the bright canvases alone that strike you, but the artist’s grit and determination to “paint and paint some more.” “I am 95, I must use the remaining time as well as I can,” says one of India’s greatest modern painters. To mark his 95th birthday last fortnight, his latest show at Artoholics Gallery in Delhi has 16 of his new paintings on display, along with some sculptures, all done in the past year....

Interesting facts about FRIENDS star Jennifer Aniston Jennifer Aniston is one of the finest actresses that the Hollywood industry has gifted us with. She was loved ever since she first appeared on screen and has become of a household name since her work in Friends. The star has now done many movies and is very successful and has a fan base of millions across the globe. The star has a very interesting personality and we’re eager to know more. So here are to seven facts you didn’t know about Jennifer Aniston. Source: iwmbuzz.com

Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam toppled by espionage scandal ZURICH : Tidjane Thiam has quit as Credit Suisse chief executive after a spying scandal that has hit the reputation of one of Europe’s largest banks and shocked Switzerland’s financial community. Thomas Gottstein, who is head of the Swiss business at Credit Suisse, will take over from Thiam, the Zurich-based lender said on Friday. His departure ends a conflict with Chairman Urs Rohner after revelations that the bank had snooped on former executives raised questions over its culture. Source: Livemint

Paul Farnes, Last R.A.F. Ace of Battle of Britain, Dies at 101 Paul Farnes, a Royal Air Force fighter pilot and the last surviving R.A.F. ace of the Battle of Britain, in which he shot down six German aircraft and damaged a half-dozen more, died on Jan. 28 in West Sussex, England. He was 101. His death was announced by the Battle of Britain Memorial Trust. Mr. Farnes was one of the last survivors of the nearly 3,000 airmen called “The Few,” a nickname inspired by Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s tribute to them in August 1940 while the campaign, begun...

Elon Musk takes a dig at WhatsApp with ‘free phone hack’ emoji Taking a dig at WhatsApp over repeated users privacy violation amid security vulnerabilities, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter with a meme, showing various ‘mechanical arm’ emojis representing Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung and WhatsApp respectively. Musk posted the image with the caption: “New emoji! Last one comes with free phone hack.” The “last one” happened to be the WhatsApp version of the robotic arm emoji. Source: Hindustan Times

Jhon Jairo Velásquez, 57, Dies; Escobar Henchman Turned YouTube Star Jhon Jairo Velásquez, a former member of the Medellín drug cartel who boasted of committing hundreds of murders on behalf of the drug lord Pablo Escobar, and who parlayed his criminal past into a popular YouTube channel, books and a movie, died on Thursday in Bogotá, Colombia. He was 57. His death was announced by Colombia’s National Penitentiary and Prison Institute. Imprisoned on charges of extortion in 2018, he had been hospitalized since Dec. 31 with late-stage stomach cancer. Source: The New York Times

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Says Iran Must Become Strong to End ‘Enemy Threat’ Tehran: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saturday that the Islamic republic must become strong enough to ward off the “enemy’s threats” and prevent a war. Khamenei also said Iran had a strong air force despite decades of US pressure and sanctions on the country since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. “We must become strong so that there will not be a war, become strong so that enemy’s threats will end,” he told a gathering of air force commanders and staff. “We do not want to threaten anyone… this...

ISIS bride Shamima Begum loses appeal over U.K. citizenship London-born Islamic State (ISIS) recruit Shamima Begum lost an appeal against the U.K. government’s revocation of her British citizenship on security grounds. Ms. Begum, who was 15 years old when she secretly fled her home in east London in 2015 to join the terrorist group in Syria, is living in a camp run by Kurdish forces in northern Syria. A special British immigration tribunal ruled on February 7 that she was a Bangladeshi citizen by descent which meant that she had not been rendered homeless by former U.K. Home Secretary Sajid Javid’s decision to revoke her...