Month: November 2019

Food products made by CSIR labs better than those available in markets, says Dr Harsh Vardhan

open view news desk The Union Minister of Science and Technology, Earth Sciences and Health & Family Welfare, Dr Harsh Vardhan has said food products made by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) laboratories are better than those available in the market. “CSIR products are much more […]

Bushfire threat still high as Australia clean up begins

Australians on Wednesday began sifting through the ashes of hundreds of bushfires that have ravaged the country, relieved that their worst fears were unrealised — but wary of a long and brutal summer ahead. Firefighters were still battling 140 blazes across the country’s eastern seaboard, but a respite […]

Deadly Israel-Gaza escalation rages for second day

Exchanges of fire triggered by Israel’s targeted killing of a top militant in Gaza raged for a second day Wednesday and showed little sign of easing, with 22 Palestinians killed. Fresh rocket barrages were fired at Israel, which responded with strikes on what it said were Islamic Jihad […]

Chaos in Hong Kong as pro-democracy protests ‘blossom everywhere’

Pro-democracy protesters Wednesday stepped up a “blossom everywhere” campaign of road blocks and vandalism across Hong Kong that has crippled the international financial hub this week and ignited some of the worst violence in five months of unrest. The new phase in the crisis, which has forced schools […]

Tuition teacher arrested for `raping’ girl

Nagpur, Nov 13: A 50-year-old tutor has been arrested here for allegedly raping and blackmailing a girl student. Saibal Sunil Choudhary, resident of Trimurti Nagar locality, was arrested on Tuesday after a case was registered against him with Ajni police station. Inspector Hanumant Urlagondawar said that in September, Choudhary, […]

Fireworks expected as televised Trump impeachment hearings open

Donald Trump faces the most perilous challenge of his three-year presidency as public hearings convened as part of the impeachment probe against him open under the glare of television cameras on Wednesday. Democrats who control the House of Representatives plan to prove over several weeks of hearings that […]

Rock’n’rolling stock: Rod Stewart creates his own downtown train

British pop stalwart Rod Stewart has spent decades laying down tracks of a different kind thanks to a little-known lifelong hobby — building model railways. The gravel-voiced singer has spent the past 23 years creating an imaginary American city and railway in his Los Angeles mansion. He opened […]

Afghan capital’s air pollution may be even deadlier than war

KABUL, Afghanistan — Yousuf fled with his family from his home in eastern Afghanistan eight years ago to escape the war, but he couldn’t escape tragedy. In the capital, Kabul, five of his children died, not from violence or bombings, but from air pollution, worsened by bitter cold […]

Israel hits Gaza amid rocket fire, Palestinian deaths rise

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli airstrikes pounded Islamic Jihad targets in Gaza on Wednesday and militants resumed rocket fire toward Israel after a brief overnight lull, as the death toll rose to 23 Palestinians, including a 7-year-old boy and two other minors, in the heaviest round of […]

Chinese, other students flee Hong Kong as violence worsens

HONG KONG — University students from mainland China and Taiwan are fleeing Hong Kong, while those from two Scandinavian countries have been moved or urged to leave as college campuses become the latest battleground in the city’s 5-month-long anti-government unrest. Marine police used a boat Wednesday to help […]

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