Algeria has turned off its internet nationwide during high school exams in a bid to tackle cheating. Blackouts will continue throughout the exam season, till June 25. Internet service, both mobile and fixed line, is to be off for an hour after the start of each high school diploma exam to stop any leaks, the […]
The government’s Brexit bill has passed through Parliament after Theresa May saw off a revolt by Tory MPs. Peers accepted the amendment to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill sent to them from the House of Commons, meaning the bill now goes for Royal Assent, becoming law. Earlier, the government won the vote 319 to 303, after […]
The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) on Wednesday opened on a positive note during the morning session of the trade. The Sensex of the BSE after opening at 35, 329.61 points and touched a high of 35,417.15 points and a low of 35,329.51 points. On Tuesday, the Sensex closed at 35,286.74 points. The Sensex is trading […]
Striking a blow against the UN Human Rights Council’s credibility, the US is withdrawing from the “hypocritical” organisation, US Permanent Representative Nikki Haley has announced. “For too long, the Human Rights Council has been a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias,” Haley said on Tuesday. UN Human Rights Commissioner Zeid […]
While you are busy giving Alexa commands to play your favourite song or book an Uber, the intelligent virtual assistant from Amazon is helping the US space agency organise daily tasks while making sense of intrinsic data-sets. According to Tom Soderstrom, IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), voice as […]
Stock markets fell around the world on Tuesday in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs threat to China. The Dow Jones was down more than 300 points, or 1.6 per cent, at the open after Asian and European markets fell sharply earlier, reports BBC. Trump has threatened to put tariffs on an […]
Russia may have significantly upgraded a nuclear weapons storage bunker in Kaliningrad, a Russian territory between Poland and the Baltics, as tensions between Moscow and the West continue to rise, according to a new report. On Monday, the Washington-based Federation of American Scientists (FAS) published aerial photographs that the group says show the facility in […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is on a two-day visit to China from Tuesday, his third such trip to the country since March this year. Kim’s visit, announced by the Chinese state media, comes just a week after his historic meet with US Donald Trump in Singapore where the two leaders pledged to denuclearise the […]
US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on an additional $200 billion worth of Chinese goods shipped to Washington unless Beijing agrees to a host of sweeping trade concessions, media reports said. In a statement on Monday, Trump said he had US Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer, to draw up a list of […]
Heir to the British throne Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, are on a two-day visit in Ireland, reported local media RTE. The royal couple arrived in Ireland on Thursday morning and paid a visit to the country’s southern city of Cork under the company of the Irish Deputy Prime Minister […]