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Mounting misery: Children line up to receive a plate of food at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince. | Photo Credit: AP The UN children’s agency chief offered a dire assessment on Marcg 17 of the chaotic situation in Haiti, saying it was “almost like a scene out of Mad Max,” which…
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(from left) Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz and Donald Tusk at a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin on March 15. | Photo Credit: AFP French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview published on March 16 evening that Western ground operations in Ukraine might be necessary “at some point”, days after meeting with German…
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The injured have been taken to Ajmer station for treatment. Several passengers were injured after four coaches and engine of a superfast train derailed near Madar railway station in Rajasthan’s Ajmer. The incident is said to have happened late at 1:00 am in the night. According to officials four coaches along with the engine of…
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This illustration compares three flowers – summer snowflake (A, B), blue phlox (C, D), and a blue violet (D, E) – in honeybee false colour (left) and human-visible colours (right). | Photo Credit: Vasas V, et al., 2024, PLOS Biology, CC-BY 4.0 To most people, leaves are green and oranges are orange. But if our…
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Hardik Pandya | Photo Credit: PTI In his desperation to regain fitness for the remaining World Cup matches last year, India all-rounder Hardik Pandya said he resorted to extreme measures like taking multiple injections and removing blood clots from his ankle but pushing the boundaries only aggravated the injury, forcing him to sit out of…
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Monday’s apparent ballistic missile test is the North’s second this year (Representational) Seoul, South Korea: North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the sea on Monday for the first time in two months, at a time when U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was visiting Seoul to attend a conference hosted by President Yoon Suk…
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Savarkar’s grandson added, “Insulting Savarkar-ji for politics is wrong” (File) Mumbai: Lashing out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his statements against nationalist poet and freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, his grandson Ranjit Savarkar on Sunday said the former has been repeatedly hurling insults at the late saffron ideologue for his ‘political gain’. Speaking to…
A search operation is underway to find survivors who may be trapped under the rubble Kolkata: At least 10 people were rescued after an under-construction building collapsed in Kolkata late on Sunday night, officials said. The five-storey building collapsed in Hazari Mollah Bagan in the Garden Reach area. A search operation is underway to find…
A mob attacked a group of foreign students and vandalised hostel rooms Ahmedabad (Gujarat): The Ahmedabad Crime Branch arrested two accused persons in connection with the attack on some overseas students at Gujarat University Hostel. “In the incident that took place in the Gujarat University yesterday at 10.30 pm, an FIR was registered against a…
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Clashes have broken out between government forces and M23 rebels leaving eight UN peacekeepers injured after a brief lull in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said. One of the peacekeepers was “gravely wounded” in the attack on Saturday at Sake, said UN mission head Bintou Keita. The strategic town lies…
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