COVID-19 vaccine update, Raigad building collapse and more: A round-up of the top stories on August 26, 2020

A brief look at all the news you need to start the day with during the time of social distancing. Follow live updates on COVID-19 here.

Oppn unity in mind, Sonia and Mamata convene meeting of CMs today

Apart from Banerjee and chief ministers of Congress-ruled states, Jharkhand's Hemant Soren and Maharashtra's Uddhav Thackeray attend the meeting to be held through video-conference. Top of the agenda is postponement of the NEET and JEE Main exams scheduled for the first week of September. Also on the agenda is protecting the federal structure of the country. Read More

Cambridge university aims for autumn trials of coronavirus vaccine

The scientists behind the vaccine said their approach, which uses genetic sequences of all known coronaviruses to hone the immune response, could help avoid the adverse effects of a hyper-inflammatory immune response. Read More

Maharashtra building collapse: 13 killed as search for survivors continues

Rescue workers pulled a 4-year-old boy from the rubble of a collapsed building, hours after the five-storey apartment block came down ‘like a house of cards’, killing 13 people in the Raigad district. See Photos

Meet the 20-year-old who has broken Shakuntala Devi’s record

Neelakanta Bhanu Prakash has won gold in the Mental Calculation World Championship, conducted at Mind Sports Olympiad in London recently. Bhanu has won the title of being the ‘fastest human calculator.’ Read More

Barcelona in new turmoil after Messi tells club he wants to leave

Captain Lionel Messi has told Barcelona he wishes to leave the club immediately, a source confirmed on Tuesday, deepening the turmoil within the Catalan side less than two weeks after their humiliating 8-2 defeat by Bayern Munich. Read More

Rhea Chakraborty never consumed drugs in her life, says lawyer

Rhea Chakraborty's lawyer's response came after some media channels claimed that the actress' chats showed a drug angle. Read More

Anderson celebrates 600th Test wicket as England draw with Pakistan

James Anderson, only the fourth bowler to achieve the feat, cemented his place in cricket history in the closing stages of the rain-marred third and final Test in Southampton. Read More

Kim raises alarm over North Korea's coronavirus response as typhoon nears

During an enlarged meeting of the Politburo of the ruling Workers' Party on Tuesday, Kim Jong-un lamented unspecified "defects" and "shortcomings" in the country's' anti-virus campaign and urged that they be corrected swiftly. Read More

Melania Trump tells virus sufferers they're 'not alone'

While others at the Republican National Convention spoke about the coronavirus as a challenge successfully conquered, the first lady used her address from the Rose Garden to acknowledge the pain of lives lost and families upended by the pandemic. Read More