Updated: Dec 19th, 2025 File image (IANS) Seven people were killed after a small jet crashed at a regional airport in Statesville, US state of North Carolina, police said. According to the police, among those killed in the crash were former NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) driver Greg Biffle, his wife and...
Violence erupted in Bangladesh following the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, spokesperson of the radical group Inqilab Mancha, with several media outlets reportedly targeted in arson attacks. Hadi succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment at a Singapore hospital, after battling for his life for six days. Addressing the nation on Thursday night, the interim...
Updated: Dec 18th, 2025 A human case of H5N5 virus was registered in Washington, US, raising alarms to health authorities across the country. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the case marks the 71 confirmed human infection with influenza A(H5) in the United States since early 2024 and the first reported since February 2025....
Updated: Dec 18th, 2025 The political situation in Bangladesh has turned tense once again after hundreds of protestors attempted to march towards the Indian High Commission in Dhaka on Wednesday. Police stopped the demonstrators near Rampura Bridge, citing security concerns in the diplomatic zone. The protest, organised under the banner of ‘July Unity’, featured strong...
Updated: Sep 26th, 2025 Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has filed a lawsuit against rival OpenAI, alleging theft of trade secrets through hiring its former employees. Intensifying the ongoing conflict between Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, a complaint was filed in California federal court that former xAI employees were poached to obtain...
Updated: Sep 26th, 2025 External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and the ministers of the G4 have reviewed the state of negotiations for reforming the Security Council while reiterating their commitment to the goal. After their meeting on Thursday, he posted on X that the “G4 reiterated its commitment to reforming the United Nations including the...
Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas, riding high on rising support for statehood while also facing relentless Israeli attacks, on Thursday, denounced Hamas and offered to work with the US President Donald Trump to implement a peace plan endorsed by the UN. Speaking through a video link after the US barred him from coming to New York...
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...