Month: October 2020

Home to 5 million people, Australia's second-biggest city, Melbourne has been in lockdown since early July after a spike of Covid-19 infections that began in hotels where people were in quarantine after arriving from abroad. From midnight Tuesday into Wednesday, Lockdown orders for Melbourne's residents will be lifted, while restaurants, beauty salons and retail stores will be permitted to throw open their doors to customers. "This has been a very difficult year. And Victorians have gien a lot and I'm proud of every single one of them," he told reporters in Melbourne. "Now is the time to open up," added Andrews. "We've been able to bring this under control, a day of zero cases is an amazing achievement." Social media users declared the return to zero new cases "Donut Day", wit...

Shekar Narasimhan, Indian-American investment banker, recalls that he was at the White House for a party but the mood quickly turned sombre. He says everyone fell silent as details of the horrific attack emerged - 20 children, all under the age of 10, and six adults died in the shooting. It was also on that day that Mr Narasimhan first met Dilawar Syed, a Pakistani American. This is something Mr Syed and Mr Narasimhan hope to change through their organisation. It's unclear which way Pakistani Americans are leaning, but over 70% of Indian Americans plan to vote for Mr Biden in the upcoming election, according to the 2020 Indian American Attitudes survey. This suggests that the community will largely vote Democrat as always. In the US, the two communities are part of the same South...