The services PMI number came in at 12.6 for May, up from the historic low of 5.4 touched in April Our resumption of commercial activity has been fitful so far, be it manufacturing or services.

Consider IHS Markit’s Purchasing Managers’ Index for India’s services sector. The reading for May, at 12.6, is more than twice that of April’s 5.4, but this is no cause for cheer.

Any figure under 50 on this scale indicates a contraction of service orders placed. It’s clear that the partial easing last month of clamps imposed on the country to contain covid-19 has not caused a bounce-back, as a few optimists had hoped.

The country’s manufacturing PMI for May, released earlier, was at 30.8, registering only a slight uptick from the previous month.

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Prosecutors: 2 Buffalo officers charged with assault for pushing 75-year-old protester

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Two Buffalo police officers were charged with assault Saturday, prosecutors said, after a video showed them shoving a protester in recent demonstrations over the death of George Floyd in Minnesota.Both pleaded not guilty to second-degree assault.The officers had been suspended without pay Friday after a TV crew captured the confrontation the night before near the end of protests.The footage shows a man identified as Martin Gugino approaching a line of helmeted officers holding batons as they clear demonstrators from Niagara Square around the time of an 8 p.m.

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Anatomy of a political comeback: How Biden earned nomination

BALTIMORE – It seemed easy to write off Joe Biden.The former vice president came across as easily blindsided at debates. The crowds at his presidential campaign speeches were far from stadium size.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom Launches Police Reform Task Force

California Gov. Gavin Newsom spoke on racial inequality in California amid protests taking place across the country following the deaths of George Floyd and other unarmed black people at the hands of police.

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LIVE UPDATES: Protests over George Floyd death continue across US, world

ORLANDO, Fla. – Here’s the latest on protests surrounding the death of George Floyd, a black man who died as a white police officer knelt on his neck.SOUTH KOREAIn South Korea’s capital, Seoul, protesters gathered for a second straight day to denounce Floyd’s death. Wearing masks and black shirts, dozens of demonstrators marched through a commercial district amid a police escort, carrying signs such as “George Floyd Rest in Peace” and “Koreans for Black Lives Matter.”AUSTRALIAIn Brisbane, the Queensland state capital, organizers said about 30,000 people gathered, forcing police to shut down some major downtown streets.

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Tiger King spin off 'reality tv show' announced as Jeff Lowe confirms he has signed up

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Dear Class of 2020: Here's why Michelle Obama, Beyonce, BTS' graduation event got delayed by a day

Given how the coronavirus pandemic has restricted us to our homes, 2020 graduates have had to rely on online graduations to get some sort of semblance that they have in fact graduated. Well, Michelle Obama has a big plan to make the students have the graduation they deserve, even if it is virtually.

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Prosecutors: 2 Buffalo police officers charged with assault

BUFFALO, N.Y. – BUFFALO, N.Y.Two Buffalo police officers were charged with assault Saturday, prosecutors said, after a video showed them shoving a protester in recent demonstrations over the death of George Floyd in Minnesota. Both pleaded not guilty to second-degree assault.

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Kansas Rep. Watkins faces attacks labeling him GOP impostor

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NASCAR looks to steer clear of protests over George Floyd

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Police officer saves choking child at Olive Garden while on lunch break

GASTONIA, N.C. - A police officer in North Carolina is being hailed a hero for his quick actions to save a choking child while on his lunch break.The Gastonia Police Department says Capt. Trent Conard was eating lunch at the Olive Garden restaurant when he heard a woman shout, “She’s not breathing, my baby’s not breathing!”Conard immediately rushed to the family's side where the child had turned blue and was limp.

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Police officer comforts crying little girl who asked 'are you gonna shoot us?' during protest

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Amish schools: ‘Distance learning’ involves paper and pencil during pandemic

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COVID-19 cases in Florida near 63,000 as more businesses reopen

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AP Was There: Seles tops Graf in riveting French Open final

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Prosecutors seek right mix of charges in George Floyd case

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Amid virus, US students look to colleges closer to home

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Murphy says NJ's guard troops returning from Washington over weekend

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Banksy shares powerful Black Lives Matter artwork and addresses “faulty system”

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Pilot, Florida family of 4 headed to funeral in Indiana die in Georgia plane crash

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Dog-killing cane toads are back as rains draw them out

MIAMI, Fla. – “Who can I call to get rid of these monsters??? I’m dying over here and I have 3 dogs!”The distressed plea for help was posted late last month by Ohilda Gilbert, a real estate agent, on a Facebook group of South Florida moms. A photo of a fat, warty cane toad next to a pool pump illustrated her post and fired up a conversation with over 200 comments about the dreaded amphibians.The yellowish brown cane toads, also known as bufo, marine or giant toads, are making an appearance in South Florida after the recent heavy rains stirred them up from their burrows and gave them plenty of water to breed in.

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Hollywood best friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon take kids to Breonna Taylor memorial in rare photo

BEN Affleck and Matt Damon were visibly emotional as they took their children to a memorial for Breonna Taylor on Friday. The Hollywood best friends, who hit stardom together with 1997's Good Will Hunting, took flowers to pay their respects on what would have been her 27th birthday.

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Hotels, restaurants can re-open in Karnataka if norms are followed: Yediyurappa

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Saturday said hotels and restaurants would be allowed to re-open, but the precautionary measures laid down by the Centre against coronavirus were mandatory.The Chief Minister on Friday held a meeting with the tourism and transport department, also stakeholders, regarding revival of tourism in the state.Hotels associations and transport companies have said they would follow the guidelines issued by the government, an official press release said here.The Karnataka government had said it would go by the Centre's direction on opening religious places of worship, shopping malls, hotels, restaurants and other hospitality services on June 8.Buses, hotels and taxi owners association placed some

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Growing concerns about U.S. police response to peaceful protests

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Meat bought from China's wet markets faces ban after kittens were fed dead cats

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Snoop Dogg joins Liam Payne and football stars for charity FIFA tournament

Snoop Dogg has joined the celebrities and professional footballers taking part in Gamers Without Borders, an online charity tournament of the video game FIFA 20.Former One Direction singer Liam Payne is also on board for the competition, organised by the Saudi Arabian Federation for Electronic and Intellectual Sports.Among the footballers taking part are England internationals Trent Alexander-Arnold of Liverpool FC and Tottenham Hotspur’s Dele Alli, Juventus striker Paulo Dybala and Portuguese players João Félix and Andre Silva.Shortly before the tournament’s grand final, and after a series of matches between the professional footballers, Snoop will be taking on talk show host, DJ and comedian Kerwin Frost.Their game takes place at 8.35pm

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Open all hours, New Delhi crematorium struggles with coronavirus dead

- Furnace or tradition -Suman Kumar Gupta of the crematorium management committee said families arriving for a funeral had to queue to pass through a "sanitation tunnel" at the entrance and then wait hours for the ceremony, prompting anxiety about the risk of infection."They want it to be faster, but we have only the three furnaces working," said the official.Pressure is being felt all around.

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Beyonce and Kim Kardashian among stars honouring Breonna Taylor

Beyonce and Kim Kardashian West were among the stars honouring a black woman shot dead by police.

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McDonald's to bring back breakfast 'within a few weeks' as 500 more open for delivery

McDonald's hopes to start trialling breakfast service within a few weeks as 500 more restaurants begin a delivery service.

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The workers of Manchester said Black Lives Matter 150 years ago - and we say the same today

death of George Floyd, with the same spirit that made the ‘Working-Men of Manchester’ resolve to refuse to touch cotton produced by the slavery of the American south, on the same day they wrote that letter to Lincoln.There’s much more to today’s event than solidarity.Every black person in that crowd will have had some experience of being stereotyped, scapegoated, insulted, even attacked, because of the colour of their skin, will have experience of people who don’t know what it’s like, or don’t want to know it’s like, telling them it’s all in their head.The demonstrators follow in the footsteps of 20th century civil rights activists like Louise Da-Cocodia, Len Johnson and Learie Constantine and C.L.R James - proud Mancunians and

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India, China will have more COVID-19 cases than US if they test more, claims Donald Trump

Washington: US President Donald Trump has said that countries like India and China would have much more coronavirus cases than America, the worst-hit country in the world, if they conduct more tests.Trump, in his remarks at Puritan Medical Products in Maine, said that the US has carried out 20 million tests.Compared to the US, Germany is at four million and much talked about South Korea is about three million tests, he said on Friday.According to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, the US has reported nearly 1.9 million cases and over 1,09,000 deaths, making America the worst affected country, while the total number of coronavirus cases in India and China stand at 2,36,184 and 84,177 respectively.India has so far conducted over 4

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Turning grief into change, movement targets racial injustice

Momentum for what many hope is a sustained movement aimed at tackling racial injustice and police reforms promised to grow Saturday as more protesters filled streets around the world and mourners prepared to gather in the U.S. for a second memorial service for George Floyd, who died a dozen days ago at the hands of police in Minneapolis.Formal and impromptu memorials to Floyd over the last several days have stretched from Minneapolis to Paris, Rome and Johannesburg, South Africa.

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DA: Delaware County man hurled racial slurs during peaceful rally

ASTON, Pa. - A man is facing charges after he was captured on video hurling racial slurs and directing threats at protesters during a peaceful rally on Sunday, prosecutors announced.Brian Setnick, 60, of Aston, is charged ethnic intimidation, making terroristic threats and harassment, according to the Delaware County District Attorney's Office.The alleged incident happened at the intersection of Pennell Road and Concord Road in Aston around 7 p.m.

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By the numbers: Trump reads economic boom into jobs data

CHICAGO – President Donald Trump has always been a big numbers guy. He’s proven himself adept at taking even the most grim numbers and giving himself a pat on the back or employing a creative use of data to make himself look good.

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Mail ballots from Tuesday's election push Biden over the top

WASHINGTON – After primaries and caucuses in 42 states and the District of Columbia, Joe Biden has won the last few delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination for president as states worked to tally a surge of mail ballots.Indiana, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island were among the seven states, plus the district, holding elections Tuesday. But a huge increase in vote-by-mail ballots, driven in large part by the coronavirus pandemic, meant election officials were still counting ballots Friday.Democrats don't hold winner-take-all contests in which the top vote-getter wins all the delegates.

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Joe Biden officially named Democratic presidential candidate to take on Donald Trump

Joe Biden has officially clinched the Democratic presidential nomination and will face President Trump at the polls.

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Shops open all day Sunday and outdoor dining 'among plans to boost UK economy'

Shops could be allowed to trade all day on Sundays and cafés and pubs given fast-track approval to serve outside in a bid to restart the economy.

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China not happy with Facebook's new state media rules

Facebook was unfairly targeting its biggest media companies on Friday after the network began attaching disclaimers to pages run by the country's state-controlled news outlets.Pages managed by news agency Xinhua and the fiery nationalist tabloid Global Times are now labelled "China state-controlled media", after a policy change by the world's largest social platform.Facebook said it will add similar labels to pages and advertisements run by media outlets subject to editorial influence and financial backing by governments, including Russian state broadcaster RT.The move comes with Facebook under scrutiny for failing for stem foreign interference in the 2016 US election, and after heated debate over how the network handles misinformation and

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Asia Today: Most of 51 new SKorea cases linked to door sales

SEOUL – SEOUL, South KoreaSouth Korea on Saturday reported 51 new cases of COVID-19, mostly in the densely populated capital region, as authorities scramble to stem transmissions among low-income workers who can’t afford to stay home.The figures announced by South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention brought national totals to 11,719 workers and 273 deaths. At least 34 of the new cases were linked to door-to-door sellers hired by Richway, a Seoul-based health product provider.Vice Health Minister Kim Gang-lip said the spread of the virus among Richway sellers was particularly alarming as most of them are in their 60s and 70s.

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India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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