The Central Bureau of Investigation and state police forces are raiding 105 locations across India in a case linked to cyber fraud. | Continue reading
On October 14, in a house near Leeds, England, Laurence Day was sitting down to a dinner of fish and chips on his couch when his phone buzzed. | Continue reading
Britain is seeing daily infections of the rare monkeypox virus that are unconnected to any travel to West Africa, where the disease is endemic, a health official said on Sunday. | Continue reading
In a significant move to bring critical research and development capabilities under one roof, pharmaceutical company Pfizer has set up a global drug development centre at the IIT Madras Research Park in Tamil Nadu's Chennai. | Continue reading
Pakistan, which is grappling with an economic slump, has secured a "sizeable package" of around $8 billion from Saudi Arabia during the visit of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, reported local media. | Continue reading
In a joint operation, the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad(ATS) and the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) have recovered nearly 90 kilogram of heroin worth Rs 450 crore from a shipping container that arrived at the Pipavav port | Continue reading
A gang of thieves haspulled off an extraordinary heist by stealing a 60-foot abandoned bridge in Bihar's Rohtas district in broad daylight. | Continue reading
The disclosure of new Covid variants emerging in China and the rise of a potentially more transmissible strain in the U.K. has recast the spotlight on the ongoing risk of the virus, even as health experts say there's no reason to panic. | Continue reading
With the first pour of concrete for a 700 MW atomic power plant in Karnataka's Kaiga scheduled in 2023, India is set to put in motion construction activities for 10 'fleet mode' nuclear reactors over the next three years. | Continue reading
The document proposes to allow multilateral trading facilities and “virtual asset custodians” to operate NFT marketplaces | Continue reading
A black box from the crashed China Eastern airliner was recovered on Wednesday as investigators try to piece together what made a jet carrying 132 passengers nosedive into a mountainside in southern China. | Continue reading
Russia has threatened to attack supply chains of S-300 air defence systems to Ukraine after Slovakia announced that it is willing to support Kyiv by providing the said defence system, reported local media on Friday (Local Time). | Continue reading
Russian forces in Ukraine may have used thermobaric weapons and cluster bombs, according to reports from the Ukraine government and human rights groups. | Continue reading
Instagram was inaccessible in Russia on Monday after Moscow accused its parent company Meta of allowing calls for violence against Russians, including the military, on its platforms. | Continue reading
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday banned residents from transferring money abroad as part of measures to prop up the ruble which has plummeted in value as a result of Western sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. | Continue reading
Twelve members of Russia's diplomatic mission to the UN have been ordered to leave the United States by the end of March, Russia's ambassador to the world body said Monday. | Continue reading
Western sanctions in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine are designed to topple Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said Monday. | Continue reading
Russia's army admitted Sunday that there were "killed and injured" soldiers among its troops in Ukraine on the fourth day of its invasion, without saying how many had died there. | Continue reading
A video has emerged of an Indian student in conflict-hit Ukraine, who has taken shelter in a basement amid Russian bombardment on the east European nation. She says the situation is bad. In the video, over a dozen students are seen sitting in the basement. There are some 500 stud … | Continue reading
As Storm Eunice battered Britain with record-breaking wind speeds and astonishing waves on Friday, hundreds of thousands of viewers tuned in to a nail-biting live video of planes making bumpy, impressive landings in the UK's capital. | Continue reading
Noting that net zero targets are expected to be met through a combination of clean energy and nuclear sources, The government recently said India's present nuclear power capacity of 6,780 MW is planned to be increased to 22,480 MW by 2031. | Continue reading
In the latest headache for the global supply chain, ships in Chinese waters are disappearing from industry tracking systems. | Continue reading
Britain called on Sunday for international action on the issue of medical devices such as oximeters that work better on people with lighter skin, saying the disparities may have cost lives of ethnic minority patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Continue reading
One of the first openly gay politicians in the United States, who was assassinated four decades ago, will have a ship named after him this weekend, as the US military looks to keep step with modern-day social attitudes. | Continue reading
China has won the artificial intelligence battle with the United States and is heading towards global dominance because of its technological advances, the Pentagon's former software chief told the Financial Times. | Continue reading
An unprecedented leak of financial records known as the Pandora Papers has revealed the offshore financial assets of dozens of current and former world leaders and hundreds of politicians from Asia and the Middle East to Latin America. | Continue reading
A group of current and former Blue Origin employees on Thursday accused Jeff Bezos' space company of having a "toxic" work culture with rampant sexual harassment and a pattern of decision-making that prioritized speedy rocket development over safety | Continue reading
Google has threatened to sue the Competition Commission of India (CCI), the antitrust authority said today as the tech giant moved the Delhi High Court over what is described as the "leak of a confidential report" linked to an investigation. | Continue reading
Singapore has started trials of robots to patrol public areas and deter poor social behaviour, in its latest effort to further augment its strong portfolio of surveillance tools. | Continue reading
China has developed a prototype miniature helicopter for surveillance work on future Mars missions, according to its space science agency, following the historic landing of a robotic rover on the Red Planet a few months ago. | Continue reading
Masks will no longer be required on Danish public transport, the government said on Friday, as the Nordic country lifted the last of its compulsory face-covering regulations. | Continue reading
Marking a major milestone, one lakh villages and over 50,000 gram panchayats have tap water connections under the Jal Jeevan Mission, the Jal Shakti Ministry said on Wednesday. | Continue reading
Sourabh Saini, a delivery driver for Indian online supermarket BigBasket, is thrilled by the attention he gets as he zips around Noida, a satellite city on the outskirts of Delhi, in his three-wheeled electric van. | Continue reading
Google co-founder Larry Page was allowed into New Zealand despite its closed border so his son could receive urgent medical attention, the government confirmed Thursday. | Continue reading
Roughly two-thirds of all Indians above the age of six have, at some point, been infected with the SARS-CoV2 virus - which causes the COVID-19 disease - the government said this evening, as it announced the results of the fourth serosurvey. | Continue reading
Paul Fernandes, a 50-year-old waiter in India, last year took out a loan using his gold as collateral to pay for his children's education after losing his job on a cruise liner. | Continue reading
Canada set a record all-time high temperature Tuesday in the town of Lytton, British Columbia, for the third day in a row, its weather service said, as a deadly heat wave broils the country's west and the US Pacific Northwest. | Continue reading
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani on Thursday announced a Rs 75,000 crore investment in setting up four "Giga" factories to make solar photovoltaic cells, green hydrogen, batteries and fuel cells over the next three years. | Continue reading
The skull dates back at least 146,000 years, placing it in the Middle Pleistocene. | Continue reading
Three children infected with Black Fungus had to undergo surgery to remove their eyes in a Mumbai hospital. Mucormycosis or Black Fungus cases in children are a worrying sign, say doctors. | Continue reading
Twitter has lost its legal protection in India from prosecution over users' posts because of its failure to comply with new rules requiring it to appoint key officers based in the country, government sources said today. | Continue reading
Twitter has been given a final chance to appoint India-based officers following the country's new rules for social media companies failing which it will face "consequences", the government said on Sunday amid an escalating standoff with the platform. | Continue reading
An Indian biotechnology initiative has claimed a striking breakthrough in the early detection of cancer that could dramatically advance the diagnosis of the disease, saving millions of lives each year, once cleared by regulators. | Continue reading
US President Joe Biden's administration on Wednesday announced support for a global waiver on patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines, offering hope to poor nations that have struggled to access the life-saving doses. | Continue reading
Covaxin, India's home-grown Covid vaccine produced by Bharat Biotech, has been found to neutralise the B.1.617 variant or the Indian double mutant strain, White House Chief Medical Adviser Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday. | Continue reading
India today reported the world's biggest-ever daily surge with 3.14 lakh new cases and 2,104 deaths since yesterday. This is the fastest rise in cases and deaths any country has suffered till now. | Continue reading
NASA's Perseverance rover keeps making history. The six-wheeled robot has converted some carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into oxygen, the first time this has happened on another planet, the space agency said Wednesday. | Continue reading
The best chance for freeing a massive container ship that's blocking the Suez Canal may not come until Sunday or Monday, when the tide will reach a peak. | Continue reading