New Delhi : Delhi’s air quality remained in the ‘very poor’ category due to slow wind speed and high humidity on Monday, authorities said. The overall air quality index (AQI) was recorded at 322, which comes under the ‘very poor’ category, according to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data. […]
Lucknow : An Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister said Monday that once a Ram temple is built in Ayodhya, it would “restore the glorious history” of the town, asserting that the public sentiment across the country was “in favour” of building it. “Whether it is the government or any other […]
Gadchiroli : Two women Naxals were gunned down in an encounter with police commandos in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district on Monday morning, a police. The gun battle broke out between the ultras and C-60 commandos, a specialised combat unit of the Gadchiroli police, in Nihalkay forest area under Dhanora taluka […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook predicts that new regulations of tech companies and social networks to protect personal data are “inevitable.” In an interview with news website Axios being broadcast Sunday on HBO television, Cook said he expected the US Congress would take up the matter. “Generally speaking, I […]
Florida is filled with strange creatures, but skull-collecting ants are near the top of the creepy list. “In 1958, shortly after this ant was described as a species, scientists reported something weird about it,” Adrian Smith, an entomologist at North Carolina State University, said in a news release. Researchers […]
About 7,400 pounds of cargo are headed to the International Space Station after being launched early Saturday morning aboard an Antares 230 rocket in Virginia. Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft lifted off at 4:01 a.m. Saturday from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore after two days of rain delays. […]
Florida’s attorney general is suing the two largest drugstore companies in the United States — CVS and Walgreens — alleging they are contributing to the state and national opioid crisis. In a press release Friday, Pam Bondi said the two companies were being added to an existing lawsuit filed on May […]
VERSAILLES, France— The Latest on a scientific meeting on how to define weights and measures (all times local): 1:35 p.m. The international system of measurements has been overhauled with new definitions for the kilogram and other key units. At a meeting in Versailles, France, countries have voted to […]
TOKYO — Asian shares were mostly higher Monday after a buying spree on Wall Street sustained investor optimism into the new week, despite continuing worries over trade tensions. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 0.5 percent to 21,784.87 and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng added 0.4 percent to […]
BANGKOK— The sight of two preteen boys pummeling each other with fists, elbows, knees and feet as a boisterous crowd shouts wagers at each other is considered good, clean sport in Thailand. However, the death earlier this month of a 13-year-old Muay Thai contender may push forward changes […]
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