Fossil fuel CO2 emissions to hit all-time high: Scientists at COP27
11 November 2022
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Climate crisis
Twitter losing $4m a day, Musk warns of bankruptcy
11 November 2022
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Technology
2021 Sriwijaya air crash: Faulty automatic engine throttle system, poor pilot monitoring blamed
10 November 2022
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World
Facebook parent Meta to cut off 11,000 staff
9 November 2022
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Business
US midterm: Control of Congress unclear in close battle
9 November 2022
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United States
Work together or face "collective suicide": UN chief at COP27
7 November 2022
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Climate action
Delhi air pollution: Primary schools to remain closed from tomorrow
4 November 2022
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India
Protests erupt across Pakistan after assassination attempt on ex-PM Imran
3 November 2022
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South Asia
Car bombs in Somalia leave at least 100 dead, 300 injured
30 October 2022
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Africa & rest of the world
India successfully launches 36 OneWeb satellites
23 October 2022
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India
Young Brits want to ditch monarchy: poll
Young people in Britain no longer think the country should keep the monarchy, a poll yesterday showed.
21 May 2021
BBC in a tight spot
The British government on Friday warned of potential action against the BBC, after unprecedented criticism from the royal family about its use of deception to secure a 1995 interview with princess Diana, piling pressure on the corporation as it fights attacks on several fronts.
21 May 2021
Gaza’s war in numbers
243 Palestinians including 66 children killed in Israeli air strikes in the besieged coastal enclave since May 10.
21 May 2021
Mamata to contest from Bhawanipore in by-polls
Mamata Banerjee, who swept the Bengal election but lost her own contest in Nandigram, is set to return to the seat she gave up in favour of challenging her former aide Suvendu Adhikari in his stronghold.
21 May 2021
Putin to ‘knock out the teeth’ of foreign aggressors
President Vladimir Putin yesterday said that Moscow would “knock out the teeth” of any power that tried to take a chunk of Russia’s territory
21 May 2021
Former top magazine editor acquitted of rape in India
An Indian yesterday court acquitted the former editor of a leading news magazine accused of raping a female colleague seven years ago in a high-profile case that made headlines across the country.
21 May 2021
Noted environmentalist Sunderlal dies at 94
India’s best-known environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna, who coined the slogan that ‘ecology is the permanent economy’ long before the issue of climate change issue emerged, succumbed to Covid-19 at a hospital in Rishikesh yesterday at the age of 94.
21 May 2021
India asks social media firms to remove reference to 'Indian variant' of coronavirus
India's information technology (IT) ministry has written to all social media companies asking them to take down any content that refers to an "Indian variant" of the coronavirus, according to a letter issued on Friday which was seen by Reuters.
21 May 2021
Israeli police, protesters clash at Al-Aqsa Mosque soon after ceasefire
Protesters have thrown stones and soldiers fired rubber bullets and tear gas amid unrest around Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque today, just hours after Israel and Hamas agreed on a ceasefire, reports DW.
21 May 2021
Young British people want to ditch the monarchy, poll suggests
Young people in Britain no longer think the country should keep the monarchy and more now want an elected head of state, with their mood souring over the last couple of years, a poll on Friday showed.
21 May 2021
Myanmar junta-appointed electoral body to dissolve Suu Kyi’s NLD
Myanmar’s junta-appointed election commission will dissolve Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy Party (NLD) because of what it said was fraud in a November election, news outlet Myanmar Now said on Friday, citing a commissioner.
21 May 2021
Narada case: Calcutta High Court orders house arrest of 2 ministers of Mamata’s cabinet
The Calcutta High Court today ordered house arrest of four political leaders, including two senior West Bengal ministers who were held in the Narada sting operation case relating to alleged graft.
21 May 2021
Israel-Hamas truce takes hold after 11 days of fighting
An Egyptian-mediated truce between Israel and Hamas began on Friday and US President Joe Biden pledged to salve the devastated Gaza Strip with humanitarian aid after the worst fighting in years.
21 May 2021
US Senator Bernie Sanders moves to block Biden’s $735 million weapons sale to Israel
US Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a resolution blocking a $735 million weapons sale to Israel on Thursday, mirroring a symbolic action by the House of Representatives in response to conflict between Israel and Gaza's Hamas leaders.
21 May 2021
Putin threatens to 'knock out the teeth' of foreign aggressors
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Moscow would "knock out the teeth" of any power that tried to take a chunk of Russia's territory.
20 May 2021
Microsoft to unplug Internet Explorer as it seeks edge in browser war
Microsoft Corp is pulling the plug on its once omnipresent browser, Internet Explorer, next year as it prepares to battle market leader Chrome with its slicker Edge browser.
20 May 2021
Record 55m people internally displaced worldwide
Conflicts and natural disasters forced someone to flee within their own country every second of last year, pushing the number of people living in internal displacement to a record high, monitors said yesterday.
20 May 2021
‘Roof knocking’
A text message, a phone call, or an initial strike on the roof. Israel says it gives Gaza civilians warnings to evacuate before bombardment, but activists say it is not nearly enough.
20 May 2021
Biden sticks to the playbook, but why?
With his muted response to the Gaza conflict, President Joe Biden is largely sticking to a time-worn US playbook despite pressure from progressive Democrats for a tougher line toward Israel and from America’s allies for a more active role to end the violence.
20 May 2021
‘Mama, Baba, Boom!’
The Mashharawi family have already fled their home to a relative’s apartment in the Gaza Strip and are prepared for another dash at any time.
20 May 2021