Julian Assange, fugitive founder of WikiLeaks, was arrested arrested in London on Thursday almost seven years after he sought refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy. Assange was wanted by British police for skipping bail in August 2012, while he was under investigation for sexual assault and rape in Sweden. The arrest was made at the[Read More…]
France has denied reports that Pakistani pilots under an exchange programme with Qatar were being trained to fly Rafale fighter jets. “I can confirm that it is fake news,” tweeted French Ambassador to India Alexanre Ziegler, putting to rest speculations that Pakistani pilots had got hands on the Rafales before[Read More…]
An international team of more than 200 researchers unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole on Wednesday, April 10. One of the historic developments in the field of Science wouldn’t he been possible without Katie Bouman, a-29-year-old scientist, who developed a crucial algorithm that helped devise imaging methods. Bouman’s role was to[Read More…]
London: Ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, UK Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday expressed regret over the worst bloodbath committed by the British Army during the colonial period, terming it as a “shameful scar” on British Indian history. “The tragedy of Jallianwala Bagh of 1919[Read More…]
The annual Baisakhi celebrations will be held from April 12 to 21
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won the Israeli national election, securing a record fifth term in office on Wednesday after nearly complete results from Israel’s general election put him in position to form a rightwing coalition. With 96 percent of the votes counted, Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud won 37 of Knesset seats,[Read More…]
Dubai: A Canadian national of Indian origin won a jackpot of $1 million in Dubai Duty-Free (DDF) Millennium Millionaire raffle on Tuesday. Mukhtar M., who is based in Dubai and works as a real estate broker, said he was surprised upon receiving “the call of a lifetime” from a Dubai[Read More…]
San Francisco: A Washington DC-based journalist was locked out of his iPad for nearly half a century after his three-year-old toddler tried to use the device with the incorrect password. “Uh, this looks fake but, alas, it’s our iPad today after 3-year-old tried (repeatedly) to unlock. Ideas?” Evan Osnos, a[Read More…]
San Francisco: In its first crackdown against white nationalism and separatism on its platform, Facebook has banned far-right political commentator Faith Goldy and Canadian white nationalist groups including from Instagram. Facebook last month abandoned a long-standing policy of allowing white supremacy to thrive on its platforms as nations criticised it[Read More…]
London: London is the first city in the world to implement a 24-hour, seven day a week Ultra Low Emission Zone, inside which vehicles will have to meet tough emissions standards or face a charge, media reported. Monday’s introduction of the zone, known as the ULEZ, aims to reduce toxic[Read More…]
Seoul: Cho Yang-ho, the Chairman of South Korea’s largest airline Korean Air, whose leadership was overshadowed by several family scandals including his daughter’s infamous “nut rage” incident, has died in the US due to an illness at the age of 70, the company announced on Monday. Korean Air said in[Read More…]
Kuala Lumpur: Thirty-seven Rohingya Muslims were discovered on the Kuala Perlis beach in Malaysia on Monday, authorities said, sparking fears of a fresh exodus of the minority community in Myanmar. This is the second group of Rohingyas found in northwest Peninsular Malaysia, near the border with Thailand, after 35 members[Read More…]
Jerusalem: Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, Tesla and Neuralink, is in negotiations with Israels government to build tunnels in the country, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “I met a man that they call Elon Musk-have you heard of him? A real genius,” the New York-based The Algemeiner journal[Read More…]
The knowledge of the composition of the microbial and fungal communities on the ISS can be used to develop safety measures for NASA for long-term space travel or living in space
Sydney: Police in Sydney on Monday launched a search operation for a convicted double murderer who removed his electronic monitoring anklet while on parole and is now on the run. Damien Peters, 50, was last seen at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick, a suburb of the Australian city,[Read More…]
The delivery was well documented by the cops and they also shared a picture of the newborn on Facebook
A flight attendant named Adele raps the safety instructions and also involves her audience too
The company was duped by the students when they apparently replaced or repair requests for their counterfeit iPhone shipments from China which were returned claiming they failed to power on
Washington: The US Air Force has identified the six military bases that could house the military’s newest combatant command, Space Command, according to a defence memo. Four of the proposed locations are located in Colorado — Buckley Air Force Base, Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, Peterson Air Force Base Schriever[Read More…]
Washington: The US Treasury on Friday listed Venezuela-related companies and vessels as its designated targets in a new round of sanctions to pile up pressure on the Maduro government. The two companies blacklisted operated in the oil sector of the Venezuelan economy and were accused of shipping oil to Cuba,[Read More…]
Jerusalem: Patients’ CT and MRI scan results can be easily changed by hackers, thereby deceiving radiologists and Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms that diagnose malignant tumours, Israeli researchers have warned. The researchers from the Ben-Gurion University (BGU) showed that hackers could access to add or remove medical conditions from lung cancer[Read More…]
Washington: A new poll has revealed that nearly 70 per cent of Americans said they would be either enthusiastic about or comfortable with a candidate who is gay or lesbian. The NBC-Wall Street Journal poll, released earlier this week, revealed that those under 35 years of age who said they[Read More…]
Washington: Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg has said the company was “sorry for the lives lost” in the two 737 Max crashes that took place within a span of five months, the media reported on Friday. “These tragedies continue to weigh heavily on our hearts and minds, and we extend our[Read More…]
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Jakarta: Indonesia’s Komodo Island, the home of the ancient Komodo dragon, will indefinitely ban tourists from January 2020 for conservation efforts, after a smuggling case involving the endangered animal. The island, in Manggarai Barat, has been a major tourist destination, with many making the trip to see the lizard, which[Read More…]