- India
Noida: Man held for thrashing 70-yr-old mother
Noida: Noida Police has arrested a 45-year-old man for thrashing his 70-year-old mother here in Gautam Budh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, an official said on Wednesday. According to the official, an…
- Sports
Indian men’s, women’s teams leave for Lausanne for FIH Hockey5s
Bengaluru: The India men’s and women’s hockey teams left for Lausanne, Switzerland in the early hours of Wednesday to participate in the inaugural edition of the FIH Hockey5s Lausanne 2022, which will…
- Middle East
Palestinian President confirms taking measures to confront Israeli escalation
Ramallah: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said the Palestinian leadership would take measures to confront the Israeli escalation against the Palestinians. Abbas made the remarks on Tuesday during a meeting with visiting…
- Middle East
Iran: Death toll reaches 36 in building collapse
Tehran: The toll in a 10-storey commercial building collapse in the southwestern Iranian city of Abadan has risen to 36, semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted a top provincial official. Speaking to reporters,…
- World
New Omicron subvariant makes up 60% of new US COVID-19 cases
Los Angeles: A new Omicron subvariant made up nearly 60 per cent of all new US cases in the latest week, according to estimates released by the US Centers for Disease Control…
- Technology
Amazon no longer offers in-app Kindle purchases on Android
San Francisco: Tech giant Amazon has informed its customers that they cannot buy books on Kindle App for Android anymore. According to an email sent to the customers, Kindle users cannot use…
- Technology
Webb telescope to explore two rocky, Earths-like planets
Washington: NASA’s much celebrated James Webb Space Telescope is just weeks away from full operation. The huge telescope plans to start it’s in-depth science investigation by exploring strange, new rocky worlds in…
- Bollywood
Celebs react with shock, dismay to KK’s death: Tears won’t stop
Mumbai: The Hindi film world reacted with shock and disbelief to the news of the death of popular playback singer KK on Tuesday night in Kolkata at the age of 53. “In…
- Technology
Machine learning helps predict new materials for nano alloys, semiconductors, rare earths
New Delhi: Scientists have used machine learning to develop a design map of alloys at the nano-scale which can help predict the match of pairs of metals that can form bimetallic nano-alloys,…
- World
New Australian government ministry sworn in
Canberra: The new Australian government’s ministry has officially been sworn in. The 30 members of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s frontbench, which includes a record-breaking 13 women, were sworn-in to their portfolios by Governor-General…
- World
Ukrainian, Slovak Presidents discuss defence support
Kiev: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with his Slovak counterpart Zuzana Caputova to discuss defence support for Kiev, Zelensky’s press service reported. During the talks on Tuesday, Zelensky said that Slovakia has made…
- India
India must raise clean energy subsidies to meet 2030 targets
New Delhi: After peaking in FY-2017, the renewable energy subsidies have fallen in India by 59 per cent as deployment slowed for various reasons and more support — including subsidies — will be…
- Politics
BJP will not return to power in 2024 LS polls: Mamata Banerjee
Purulia: Slamming the BJP-led central government for using the central probe agencies against the opposition leaders, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed Bharatiya Janata Party will not return to power in…
- World
Russia to halt gas supplies to companies of Denmark, Germany
Moscow: Russian energy giant Gazprom has said it would no longer supply gas to Denmark’s largest energy company Orsted and will halt deliveries to Germany under the Shell Energy Europe contract. Orsted…
- Kashmir
JK: Candle light vigil held against killing of school teacher
Srinagar: Civil society members in Kashmir took out a candle light march even as condemnations poured in against the killing of a female school teacher in the Gopalpora area in south Kashmir’s…
