Category: World News

French rescuers detect signs of life under quake-hit hotel

open view web desk PALU, Indonesia — A French rescue team said Thursday it has detected a person believed to still be alive under the rubble of a hotel in Indonesia’s central Sulawesi, nearly a week after it was hit by a powerful earthquake and tsunami. Philip Besson, […]

India deports Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar

open view web desk GAUHATI, India— India on Thursday deported its first group of Rohingya Muslims since the government last year ordered the expulsion of members of the Myanmar minority group and others who entered the country illegally. The deportation was carried out after the Supreme Court rejected […]

Trio win Nobel Chemistry Prize for research harnessing evolution

open view web desk US scientists Frances Arnold and George Smith and British researcher Gregory Winter won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for applying the principles of evolution to develop enzymes used to make everything from biofuels to medicine. Arnold, just the fifth woman to clinch chemistry’s […]

Police fire tear gas, water cannon to break up farmers’ protest

open view web desk NEW DELHI – Police on Tuesday fired teargas and water cannons to halt and scatter a march by thousands of protesting farmers heading for the capital New Delhi to demand better prices for their produce. Reeling from a crash in commodity prices, more than […]

Gandhi worked to unite India, Modi dividing country: Rahul

open view web desk Wardha (Maha), Oct 2: Mahatma Gandhi aimed to unite the country but Prime Minister Narendra Modi was working to divide it, Congress president Rahul Gandhi said at Wardha in Maharashtra on Tuesday. Addressing a rally marking his party’s programmes on the commencement of Mahatma Gandhi’s […]

Police shooting of Apple manager in Uttar Pradesh sparks call for reform

open view web desk LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI – The deadly shooting of an Apple manager by police in Uttar Pradesh prompted human rights activists and opposition parties to demand reform, saying it was only the latest in a series of extrajudicial killings by local police. The government of Uttar […]

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 […]

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 […]

Iran fires missiles at Syria ‘terrorists’ after deadly attack

open view web desk Iran said Monday it struck jihadists in Syria with ballistic missiles in retaliation for a deadly attack on an Iranian military parade, warning the “real punishment” was still to come. Last month’s assault in the Iranian city of Ahvaz killed 24 people and was […]

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