Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, who emerged as world’s fastest human computer by winning the Mental Calculation World Championship at Mind Sports Olympiad in London earlier this month, is all set to embark on a mission to eradicate mathematics phobia both in India and abroad. The 20-year-old Hyderabadi, who became the first Indian and also the first […]
A pair of Mahatma Gandhi’s circular rimmed, gold-plated glasses left in a Bristol auction house’s letterbox were sold for 260,000 pounds ($340,314). Earlier this month, the staff at the East Bristol Auctions, the largest auction house in South West England, found the glasses in its letterbox inside a plain envelope. The staff estimated that the […]
World’s largest oil company Aramco remains committed on its investment plan in India, including a $15 billion deal with Reliance Industries, even though Covid-19 pandemic has made life difficult for oil companies with suppressed demand and falling oil prices and wide scale erosion in valuations. Replying to a query from IANS, Aramco said that it […]
Former US First Lady Michelle Obama, in an 18-minute speech on Day One of the virtual Democratic convention, tore into Donald Trump’s presidency painting a picture of a man who simply does not understand what she described as the “immense weight and awesome power of the presidency”. “Donald Trump is the wrong president for our […]
Journalist, commentator and essayist, Mark Gevisser says he likes the word “queer” because of its “double valence”. As well as having been “reappropriated by people across the world to describe themselves, ‘queer’ means different or skewed: to see things from a queer perspective is to look at the world askance, to see it afresh. But […]
US stocks ended mixed on Friday as investors pored through the newly-released July jobs report. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 46.50 points, or 0.17 per cent, to 27,433.48. The S&P 500 was up 2.12 points, or 0.06 per cent, to 3,351.28. The Nasdaq Composite Index slid 97.09 points, or 0.87 per cent, to 11,010.98, […]
Sixteen employees at the Port of Beirut have been arrested over the two deadly explosions in the Lebanese capital that claimed the lives of over 135 people and left thousands others injured, a top official announced. On Thursday evening, Government Commissioner to the Military Tribunal Judge Fadi Akiki said that more than 18 […]
China was completely isolated at the UN Security Council (UNSC) in its latest attempt to raise the Kashmir issue and the US countered it by pointing to cross-border terrorism, according to diplomatic sources. Besides the US, Germany, France and Russia made a strong defence of India at the informal meeting on Wednesday and opposed the […]
US President Donald Trump said that his administration is working on what he called “a big immigration bill”. Speaking to reporters on Friday at the White House before a trip to Florida, Trump said the bill will be “merit-based”, reports Xinhua news agency. In addition, he said the administration is working with representatives of the […]
A safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine will be a “reality” by the end of the year, Anthony Fauci, America’s leading authority on the pandemic, said on Friday. “I don’t think it is dreaming, I believe it is a reality and will be shown to be a reality,” Fauci told a House of Representatives committee about […]