SYDNEY: War-weary and angry, hundreds of thousands of Israelis are taking to the streets week after week, calling for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cut a deal and bring the remaining hostages from the October 7 Hamas attack home. Their calls remain unanswered. These massive public demonstrations, including the largest nationwide strike in 18 months, […]
TEHRAN: The chief commander of the Iranian Army says the Islamic Republic will give a “stronger and more destructive” response to Israel if it makes the mistake of reacting to Iran’s recent retaliatory operation against the regime. Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi made the remarks on Sunday, five days after Iran launched hundreds of missiles toward […]
WASHINGTON: Kamala Harris, the US vice president and Democratic presidential nominee, addressed the country’s relationship with Israel during an interview set to air in full on Monday. She reiterated that Washington will continue to pressure Israel and other players in the Middle East to reach a ceasefire deal in Gaza even as advocates say that […]
NEW DELHI: The University Grants Commission (UGC) is set to award ten ‘PhD Excellence Citations’ every year, in an effort to recognise “high quality PhD work among young research scholars.” The citations will be given from next year onwards, and they are set to recognize “outstanding doctoral research,” according to UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar. […]
NEW DELHI: The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their groundbreaking discovery of microRNA, a fundamental mechanism of gene regulation. This discovery has revolutionised our understanding of how genes are controlled and expressed in living organisms. Ambros and Ruvkun’s work unveiled a new class […]
NEW DELHI: Terming Naxals the biggest human rights violators, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said security forces have been carrying out “offensive operations” instead of defensive against the insurgents and have achieved big successes in recent times. Addressing chief ministers and top officials of the Naxal-affected states, Shah also said that all Left […]
NEW DELHI: After the ED raided AAP MP Sanjeev Arora on Monday, the Aam Aadmi Party said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is resorting to such actions because he is unable to defeat it in elections. Addressing a press conference here, senior AAP leader and former deputy chief minister of Delhi claimed that the raids were […]
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav has said that BJP is misusing power for its political gains. ” BJP has crossed the limits of conspiracy and now the public has understood BJP’s greed for power. BJP has betrayed the general public, farmers, youth, businessmen and the poor. The public will show BJP the way out […]
NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh on Monday said institutions like Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) should work in sync with Karmayogi programme of the Central Government to train personnel for tackling new challenges of governance, especially to young civil servants of not only Centre but States and Union Territories […]
NEW DELHI: Amid rumours regarding his health, industrialist Ratan Tata Monday issued a public statement dispelling concerns, following his early morning admission to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Breach Candy Hospital. Mr Tata was hospitalised reportedly after a sudden drop in his blood pressure. In a letter shared by the 86-year-old business tycoon, Tata […]