New Delhi: Artifact, an AI-powered news aggregation app is here to stay, at least for a while. Developed by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the creators had announced earlier this year that they were closing shop because “the market opportunity isn’t big enough to warrant continued investment in this way.” In a blog […]
New Delhi: A recent study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has caught the eyes of many in the medical fraternity due to the alarming results described in it, and is being widely discussed by many on social media. According to it, “The exposure to the micro-nano plastics from regular bottled […]
Gaza: A United Nations expert who published a report saying there were reasonable grounds to believe Israel has committed genocide in its war on Gaza says she has received threats throughout her mandate. Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, presented a report entitled “Anatomy of a […]
Kuala Lumpur: At a time when India has reiterated its two-state solution for the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that although the October 7 attack was definitely an act of terrorism, there remains the “underlying issue of the rights of the Palestinians and the fact that they have been denied their […]
Moscow: Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday that it was “extremely hard to believe” that Islamic State would have had the capacity to launch an attack on a Moscow concert hall last Friday that killed at least 143 people. Zakharova repeated Moscow’s assertions, for which it has not yet provided evidence, that […]
New Delhi: Kamal Kishore, the head of India’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), has been appointed UN Assistant Secretary-General with the disaster risk reduction portfolio. “Kishore brings to the position nearly three decades of experience in disaster risk reduction, climate action and sustainable development at the global, regional, national and local levels, having worked in […]
London: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange faces a further wait to find out whether he can bring an appeal against his extradition to the US, the British High Court ruled on Tuesday. According to the ruling, a decision on the appeal has been adjourned to May 20 as the court is seeking assurances from the US, […]
New Delhi: Meta’s oversight board has asked the company to end its blanket ban on the Arabic word “shaheed”, roughly translated as “martyr” in English. The Board’s year-long extensive review revealed that Meta’s current blanket ban on the word “shaheed”, which it had said could be used to praise or approve of terrorism, “has led […]
Colombo: Chinese Premier Li Qiang has assured his Sri Lankan counterpart Dinesh Gunawardena of Beijing’s support to Colombo’s debt restructuring process as the island nation tries to resurrect its bankrupt economy. Gunawardena, who is on an official tour of China, met Li on Tuesday in Beijing, a statement from the Sri Lankan prime minister’s office […]
Gaza Strip: Israeli troops battled Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, with no sign of a let-up in the war despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an “immediate ceasefire”. The resolution was adopted Monday after Israel’s closest ally the United States abstained. It demands an “immediate ceasefire” for the ongoing Muslim holy […]