Updated: Sep 26th, 2025 US President Donald Trump on Thursday announced tariffs of up to 100% on imports of branded and patented pharmaceutical drugs, starting October 1, 2025. The move could hit the Indian pharmaceuticals sector hard as it is significantly dependent on trade with foreign countries, particularly the US. In a post on Truth...
Updated: Sep 25th, 2025 A team of researchers at Stanford University has developed a genetically engineered strain of ‘Phocaeicola vulgatus’ that may open new frontiers in microbiome-based therapeutics, particularly for preventing kidney stones. The work, published in ‘Science’ and titled ‘Controlled colonization of the human gut with a genetically engineered microbial therapeutic’ demonstrates how the...
Updated: Sep 25th, 2025 Representative image The Moon is slowly rusting and Earth may be to blame, according to a new study published in Nature’s journal Geophysical Research Letters. As per the report, scientists have discovered that high-energy oxygen particles escaping from Earth’s atmosphere can travel across space and interact with iron-rich minerals on the...
Updated: Sep 25th, 2025 Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to five years in prison (image: IANS) A Paris court on Thursday sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of conspiring criminally with Libya over illegal election campaign funding. The court on Thursday, however, acquitted Sarkozy of passive corruption, embezzlement...
Updated: Sep 25th, 2025 A rooftop sniper opened fire on a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Dallas, Texas on Wednesday morning, killing one immigration detainee and critically injuring two others, as per officials. According to ICE, the gunman fired indiscriminately at the Dallas field office, striking an ICE transport van in the...
Updated: Sep 25th, 2025 A senior State Department official has assured that Washington continues to deal with India and Pakistan separately and sees the relationships as ‘quite different’, discounting apprehensions that a re-hyphenation may be happening. Briefing reporters on Wednesday (local time), the official said that on Kashmir, the US continues with its “long-standing policy...
Updated: Sep 25th, 2025 Image: X Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has made a historic $70 million donation to the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) one of the largest gifts in the organisation’s history. The contribution will power UNCF’s bold $1 billion capital campaign, which aims to strengthen the...
Updated: Sep 24th, 2025 Image: X (JLFLitfest) After winning the Booker for her much-acclaimed 2006 book, ‘The Inheritance of Loss’, Delhi-born author Kiran Desai has been shortlisted for Booker Prize 2025 for her book ‘The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny’. Desai moved to the US after her initial years of education in India. Desai started...
Updated: Sep 24th, 2025 The White House has signalled that physicians and medical residents could be exempted from the newly introduced $100,000 (₹88 lakh) surcharge on H-1B visa petitions, as per reports. White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers reportedly told Bloomberg News that the proclamation signed by President Donald Trump “allows for potential exemptions, which can...
Errol Musk, the 79-year-old father of tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, is facing accusations that he sexually abused five of his children and stepchildren over a period dating back to the early 1990s, according to a New York Times investigation published Tuesday. The report suggests that these allegations may help explain why Elon Musk, who has...