Month: October 2018

Seoul: North Korea estimated to have 20-60 nuclear weapons

open view web desk SEOUL, South Korea — A top South Korean official told lawmakers that North Korea is estimated to have up to 60 nuclear weapons, in Seoul’s first public comment about the size of the North’s secrecy-clouded weapons arsenal. Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon told parliament Monday […]

Residents fume in decimated Indonesian city as aid lags

open view web desk PALU, Indonesia — Home to hundreds of families, the Balaroa neighborhood of Indonesia’s Palu city was once a patchwork of asphalted streets and tidy houses dominated by a golden domed mosque. Now it looks as if it was picked up and thrown back to […]

An Indian village’s fight to take the ‘poo to the loo’

open view web desk Indian farmer Kokila Damor always looked forward to visiting the city hospital, but only so that she could use its toilet. Now she is not only a proud toilet owner but a sanitation champion for other villagers in the state of Rajasthan who have […]

India’s sanitation summit overshadows problems that persist

open view web desk NEW DELHI— The United Nations is celebrating an Indian government program officials say can be a model for other low-income and developing countries at a summit this week in New Delhi. But in Taimoor Nagar, a slum just outside one of the city’s poshest […]

US, Japan duo win Nobel Medicine Prize for cancer therapy

open view web desk Two immunologists, James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan, won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for research into how the body’s natural defences can fight cancer, the jury said on Monday. Unlike more traditional forms of cancer treatment that directly target […]

Indian judiciary strongest, most robust: CJI Misra

open view web desk New Delhi, Oct 1: Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said on Monday that Indian judiciary is the “most robust institution” in the world and young lawyers were assets having potential to develop the jurisprudence “Our judiciary has been strongest judiciary in the world having […]

Julian Assange Interviews Imran Khan On His Success In Politics

  open view web desk The Julian Assange Show Episode 10: Khan (2012): When former international cricket captain Imran Khan entered politics, neither he nor his party were taken seriously. In this interview he discusses his meteoric rise in Pakistani politics, and the issues driving it. Courtesy: Journeyman […]

Government moves to take control of debt-laden IL&FS

open view web desk MUMBAI- India on Monday moved to take control of Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS), whose recent defaults have roiled Indian markets, in a rare move highlighting the extent of the woes at the debt-laden financing and construction firm. The government has filed an […]

Russia’s Putin to discuss military cooperation on India visit – Kremlin

open view web desk MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin will discuss military cooperation with India when he visits the country this week, the Kremlin said on Monday, without specifying whether the possible sale of S-400 surface-to-air missiles was on the agenda. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, when asked whether […]

Petrol crosses Rs 91 mark, LPG above Rs 500

open view web desk New Delhi, Oct 1: Petrol price Monday crossed the Rs 91-mark in Mumbai while domestic cooking gas LPG rates breached the Rs 500-level for the first time ever as oil at four-year high pushed fuel prices to new all-time high across the country. Petrol prices […]

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