In a statement issued on Tuesday, Moscow-based Yandex revealed that it would take full control of four separate businesses in which the two giants had previously both held stakes. In exchange for $1 billion in cash, Yandex will take a 100% stake in restaurant courier app Yandex.Eats, grocery delivery service …
Read More »Iranian President Raisi gets jab of homegrown Covid-19 vaccine as daily coronavirus deaths exceed 500
The president received his first shot of COVIran Barekat, one of the two locally produced coronavirus vaccines, on Sunday, local media reported, sharing pictures from the event. Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf received a dose of the vaccine alongside the president, who was sworn in earlier this week. The high-profile …
Read More »‘Bring meth-making jobs back to America’: US senator’s nostalgia for ‘homegrown meth’ prompts mockery
“There is a flood of Mexican meth, Mexican heroin, Mexican fentanyl,” Daines said during a visit to the southern border with fellow Republican lawmakers. “Twenty years ago in Montana, meth was homemade. It was homegrown. And you had purity levels less than 30 percent. Today the meth that is getting …
Read More »India’s space agency to build homegrown alternative to Google Maps, after country introduces ‘own’ Twitter & WhatsApp
The new project was announced by the Indian Space Research Organisation and MapmyIndia late on Friday. The two have not yet specified any timeframe within which the service might arrive, nor revealed what it will be called. The ISRO said the “collaboration will enable them to jointly identify and build …
Read More »