In a two-day visit to Myanmar by Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla and Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane was an attempt to reboot the relationaship with the neibouring country. Though Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s State Counsellor, has appointed a Prime Minister, she is the boss of the civilian administration. The military however remain very much in control and has a significant say in the matters of state. So the Shringla-Naravane joint visit is perhaps aimed keeping in mind the ground reality of the host country. Myanmar is going to the polls next month and Aung San Suu Kyi, despite…
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https://twitter.com/NobelPrize/status/1313049505802194945?s=20 U.S scientists Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Announcing the prize in Stockholm on Monday, the Nobel Committee noted that the trio’s work helped explain a major source of blood-borne hepatitis that couldn’t be explained by the hepatitis A and B viruses. Their work has paved way for blood tests and new medicines that have saved millions of lives, the committee said. The Nobel committee also announced the news on Twitter. “BREAKING NEWS: The…
Scripture Union, an international Christian evangelical organisation which works with schools to get children to read the Bible has been in the news for all the wrong and troubling reasons. The employee of Scripture Union, Sam Jaisunder has been sending inappropriate messages to minor girls in schools. In a series of tweets, Twitter user Joel Giftson alleged that Jaisunder would insist on video calls with the minor girls and even ask them to meet alone while expressing desire to ‘cuddle’ them. Accusing ‘Scripture Union’ of being the most paedophilic organisation, he stated that this inappropriate messaging by Jaisunder has been…
NASA has shared a stunning time-lapse video of an exploding star, captured by its Hubble Telescope. The 30-second clip shows a fading supernova in a galaxy located 70 million light years away. “Like intergalactic paparazzi, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured the quick, fading celebrity status of a supernova, the self-detonation of a star,” the space agency wrote in a statement. A supernova is the explosion of a star – the largest explosion that takes place in space. Photos of the stellar blast in the barred spiral galaxy NGC 2525 were compiled into a time-lapse sequence. The photos show the fading…
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Sunday directed police to act in cases of crime against women and girls with full sensitivity, officials said Sunday, amid a mounting Opposition attack on his government over the alleged gang-rape and death of a Dalit woman in Hathras. He also directed the police to act fast and seriously in cases concerning scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, the govt said during a statement. Citing the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data of 2019, the statement said the state reported a punishment rate of 55.2 per cent in cases of crime against women which is…
The BJP will take a fresh look at its Bihar candidates after ally Chirag Paswan’s move to go solo has recast political calculations ahead of the October-November state election. Sources say the party plans to tweak its strategy and its choice of candidates, given the changed caste equations. Top BJP leaders, including Bihar in-charge Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, are meeting in Delhi at party chief JP Nadda’s home. Yesterday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mr Nadda and other top leaders in the party’s central election committee held discussions on Bihar seats and candidates. Chirag Paswan, the…
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Sunday directed police to act in cases of crime against women and girls with full sensitivity, officials said Sunday, amid a mounting Opposition attack on his government over the alleged gang-rape and death of a Dalit woman in Hathras. He also directed the police to act fast and seriously in cases pertaining to scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, the government said in a statement. Citing the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data of 2019, the statement said the state reported a punishment rate of 55.2 per cent in cases of crime against women which…
A local BJP leader in West Bengal was shot dead on Sunday by two bike-borne assailants near Titagarh in North 24 Parganas district, police said. The duo opened fire at Manish Sukla, a local councillor, on B T Road in the evening, following which he was taken to a private hospital, where he was declared brought dead, they said. The BJP leadership blamed the Trinamool Congress for the incident, but the ruling party has rubbished the accusation. “It is shameful that the TMC has now started politics of annihilation of political opponents. We don’t have any faith in local police…
The CBI is carrying out searches at 14 locations in Karnataka and Maharashtra at the premises of Congress leader D K Shivakumar in an alleged corruption case, officials said on Monday. The agency has registered a fresh case against the Congress leader based on a source information, they said.