The toll from the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California’s history rose further on Sunday to 77, the sheriff’s office said, after a vigil to honor the victims. “One human remain was located today,” raising the toll by one in the so-called Camp Fire which broke […]
China will expand its ban on imports of solid waste, local media reported Monday, almost a year after its first curbs caused havoc in countries that sent their rubbish to the Asian giant. The regulatory action — which expands the prohibition to 32 categories of solid waste from […]
Three leading Hong Kong democracy campaigners pleaded not guilty on Monday to public nuisance charges over their involvement in massive rallies calling for political reform, as room for opposition in the semi-autonomous city shrinks under an assertive China. The pioneering trio are among nine activists all facing public […]
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 […]
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