WASHINGTON:The Indian-origin stepfather of a six-year-old boy, who is feared dead, stole $10,000 from a convenience store company in Texas where he worked, before fleeing to India with his wife and six other children, police said. The FBI and other US federal agencies are seeking to extradite and arrest Arshdeep Singh and his wife Cindy […]
BEIJING:Astronomers have captured the first direct image of a black hole as it blasts out a powerful jet. The new photo features the monstrous supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87), the first black hole ever directly imaged by humanity. The image shows precisely for the first time how the […]
WASHINGTON:The Republican-majority House of Representatives in Montana has barred Zooey Zephyr, the first openly transgender woman elected to the US state’s legislature, from attending the remainder of this year’s legislative session over her remarks that lawmakers who backed a ban on gender-affirming healthcare for minors would have “blood on your hands”. Under the disciplinary measure […]
ISLAMABAD:Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Syed Asim Munir is scheduled to hold important meetings and consultations in a bid to enhance military-to-military cooperation between Islamabad and Beijing during his first maiden trip to China since taking office in November 2022. Munir is currently in Beijing on a four-day trip. In a statement, the […]
HYDERABAD:Drugs Control Administration of Telangana has directed drug inspectors in the state to keep a strict vigil on the movement of a mislabelled batch of thyroid medicine Thyronorm, which has been recalled by healthcare major Abbot. Following a public notice issued by Abbott India Limited voluntarily recalling the mislabelled batch of Thyronorm, in Madhya Pradesh […]
WASHINGTON:Scientists at NASA have successfully extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil, even as the space agency works toward sending astronauts to the Moon through Artemis missions. Lunar soil refers to the fine-grained material covering the Moon’s surface. This was the first time that this extraction has been done in a vacuum environment, paving the way […]
BRUSSELS:Nine European countries have signed a declaration aimed at transforming the North Sea into a green power plant. The declaration, signed on Monday at the second North Sea Summit in Ostend, Belgium, sets ambitious targets including the production of at least 120 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind energy in the North Sea by 2030, reports […]
ISLAMABAD:At least 10 people, including eight policemen, were killed and more than 20 others were injured in a “suspected suicide attack” at a Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) police station in Pakistan’s Swat on Monday, reports said. There were two blasts inside the station, which destroyed the building, said District Police Officer Shafi Ullah Gandapur, Geo […]
NEW DELHI:The World Health Organization (WHO) has upgraded Omicron subvariant XBB.1.16 to a Covid-19 “variant of interest” (VOI) due to its “sustained increase” and “growth advantage” reported from several countries. XBB.1.16 is a descendent lineage of XBB, a recombinant of two BA.2 descendent lineages. XBB.1.16 was first reported on January 9, this year and designated […]
UNITED NATIONS:The ongoing heavy fighting in Sudan is putting tens of thousands of pregnant women in danger, making it too perilous to venture outside their homes to seek urgent medical care, warned the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). UNFPA estimates that there are 219,000 pregnant women in the capital city of Khartoum, the epicentre of the […]