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New Delhi: The police order to display the names of eatery owners along the Kanwar Yatra route in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, has been strongly criticised by Congress’s Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who said it was against the Constitution. “Creating division in society on the basis of caste and religion is a crime against the Constitution. This…
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Airports across the country have been affected by the Microsoft outage New Delhi: A Microsoft outage has crippled air travel across the world and several airports have suspended operations as airlines struggle to provide services such as online booking, web check-ins and flight status updates. Airlines are now checking in passengers manually and issuing handwritten…
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Antimicrobial chemicals are essential to modern medicine, but with resistance increasing, the World Health Organisation recently warned of a pressing need for new drugs | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A little-known group of microscopic animals has spent millions of years copying recipes for antibiotics from bacteria and using them to fight infections, we have shown…
File photo of Suryakumar Yadav (left) and Hardik Pandya© AFP The firebrand Gautam Gambhir announced his arrival as India’s head coach by successfully ensuring the ascension of Suryakumar Yadav as the new T20 captain in place of Hardik Pandya, who seemed primed for the leadership role after Rohit Sharma‘s international retirement from the…
At the corner of the Arabian Peninsula, Oman has long been seen as one of the safest, secluded countries in the Middle East, spared of militant violence that has struck elsewhere. Six people were killed while they were offering their prayers at a Shiite Mosque in the capital this week, which changed that image and…
Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong addresses the media in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Sept. 10, 2023. The powerful head of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party, has died, official media say on Friday, July 19, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party and the country’s…
Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: REUTERS The rupee consolidated in a narrow range and depreciated 3 paise to close at its all-time low of 83.66 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar on Friday, weighed down by strong American currency and muted trend in domestic equities. Forex traders said weak domestic markets and…
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Workers break cocoa pods at a farm in Sinfra, Ivory Coast. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The discovery of huge deposits of natural resources including oil, gas and gold in the Ivory Coast is pushing the country’s economy in a new direction. Over the past three years, the West African country — traditionally focussed on…
Microsoft said in a statement it was taking “mitigation actions”. Paris: Paris Olympics organisers said on Friday they were experiencing problems linked to a major worldwide computer systems outage, a week before the Games’ opening ceremony takes place. The issues came as a major outage wrought havoc on computer systems worldwide, grounding flights in the…
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The story so far: Pakistan’s government, on July 15, announced its plan to ban Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, for alleged anti-state activities. The 71-year-old cricketer-turned-politician, who lost a vote of no-confidence in 2022 and was ousted from his Prime Ministerial post, has been lodged at Adiala Jail in…
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