Ankara, Feb 8 Amid the steadily rising toll in Monday’s devastating earthquake and grown dismay over the government’s response, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said that it was “not possible to be prepared for a disaster this big”, but now the situation was under control, media reports said. Visiting Hatay, one of the […]
Istanbul/Damascus The death toll in Monday morning’s devastating earthquake in the Turkey-Syria border area has crossed over 2,300, reports said. The death toll in Turkey has risen again to 1,498, according to the country’s disaster management agency, and 810 in Syria, the BBC reported. The 7.8 magnitude quake struck near Turkey’s Gaziantep early on Monday (local […]
New Delhi Jan 21 (IANS) The centrality of Netaji Subhas Bose to the Narendra Modi-Bengal narrative is irrevocable. Netaji was pretty much rediscovered by Modi and the installation of his statue at the Central Vista is proof of concept. Netaji was undeniably kept in history’s deep freeze for 75 years by the Congress, his contributions to […]
Moscow, Russia will launch the unmanned Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft to bring home three astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) as their Soyuz MS-22 spaceship has an emergency situation, Russian space authorities have said. Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin together with NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio will return to Earth aboard the Soyuz MS-23 […]
Mumbai, Dec 10 (IANS) The phrase “To the moon and back” could prove true for actor Dev Joshi, who is known for his work on the television show “Baalveer”. Joshi is the youngest among the 7 people who will fly to the moon in 2023 in a SpaceX flight. The actor was selected from one million […]
London, Dec 1 (IANS) A 17 year-old British-Indian activist addressed the House of Commons, calling for swift action on climate change to prevent its adverse impacts on health. Dev Sharma was among the 250 members of the Youth Parliament from across the UK who were invited to debate on topics related to health in the chamber […]
New Delhi, Nov 27 (IANS) Protests against Chinese government’s strict Covid measures have intensified with people taking to the streets against President Xi Jinping’s harsh zero-Covid policy. Thousands of protesters turned out in Shanghai, where people were bundled into police cars, BBC reported. Students were also seen demonstrating at universities in Beijing and Nanjing, among other […]
New York Proving yet again that age has got nothing to do with success, seven Indian-American women have made it to the Forbes’ ’50 over 50′ list of 200 entrepreneurs, investors, creators and entertainers. While Manjusha Kulkarni, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, is listed in the ‘Impact’ section, the remaining six women are included in […]
London, Oct 29 (IANS) In a poll conducted on the UK’s new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s first two days in office, 39 per cent of respondents picked the Indian-origin leader over Keir Starmer, chief of the opposition Labour Party. The poll, conducted by Redfield and Wilton, asked 1,500 people who they thought would be a better […]
Washington, Oct 25 (IANS) US President Joe Biden called the impending UK premiership of Rishi Sunak a “groundbreaking milestone”. Biden, as most other world leaders, is still getting used to the Indian-descent Sunak’s name. He called him “Rashi”, which was a full vowel off Sunak’s actual first name Rishi. But that slip mattered little to his […]