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Speculations of a bio-chemical weapon targeting US diplomats were rife much before the COVID pandemic actually hit the globe. However, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has concluded that US diplomats suffering from ‘Havana Syndrome’ were not targets of any foreign power. The mysterious condition first came up in 2016, after dozens of diplomats at the […]
The largest digital currency by market value rose as much as 4.2 percent to $43,463 during New York trading hours. That’s even as Russia, which houses roughly 10 percent of global Bitcoin mining activities, expressed dissent over the blockchain assets. Bitcoin’s reaction: No worries. “Bitcoin mining is certainly growing faster than whatever it is losing […]
Nobel Laureate Gabriel García-Márquez and Mexican writer Susana Cato had a torrid affair in the 1990s and had a daughter who was named after former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi, a report claimed on Wednesday. Márquez, known for his bestselling novels like One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, admired […]
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, say they learned some of their most important lessons from books. The trio has recommended countless books over the years that they credit with strengthening their business acumen and teaching them about leadership. Here are 25 such books, recommended by […]
A top university system in the United States announced that they will add ‘caste’ as a protected category, a move that has been welcomed by several rights groups fighting against caste-based discrimination in the country. California State University System, which has over 23 campuses and eight off-campus centres enrolling 485,550 students with 55,909 faculty and […]
Drop your travel plans to Abu Dhabi if you haven’t received booster doses because as per the new rules by the UAE government – you are not considered to be fully vaccinated in case you haven’t had booster doses. And it has banned visitors who are not fully vaccinated in the wake of rising cases […]
Pandemic has affected everyone all around the world not just physically or mentally but economically as well. For common people the pandemic has worsened the situation but for the world’s richest men it brought more wealth. Everyday 21,000 people died due to poverty and the rich just went richer, doubling their fortunes. At the start […]
The Dead Sea, located between Israel and Jordan with parts in the West Bank, is a salt-lake in south-western Asia. Also called the Sea of Death, Salt Sea and Sea of Lot, the Dead Sea is the lowest waterbody on Earth, with the lowest elevation on land. The Dead Sea’s water is about 10 times […]
A massive asteroid will pass 1.2 million miles away from Earth. That’s over five times the distance between the Earth and the Moon. “Near-Earth asteroid 1994 PC1 is very well known and has been studied for decades by our planetary defense experts,” NASA posted to Twitter on Wednesday. “Rest assured, 1994 PC1 will safely fly […]
According to a survey conducted by LocalCircles, a community social media platform, people were asked about their travel plans between January and March 2022, and if they were able to get a refund in case they cancelled. Of those who did so, only 29 per cent were able to get a full refund from airlines, […]
It was recently unveiled in a video that the Korean Boy Band BTS will get personalised merchandise designed by Jimin (South Korean singer). Taking to Twitter, HYBE shared some tweets unveiling Jimin’s collection that includes some interesting hoodies and earrings. His fans know of his love for number 13 as his birth date is October […]
So far so good. Hereon, does not look as good. The Chinese economy managed to stay afloat despite the devastating impact of the first and second wave on major economies around the world. However, the widespread Omicron seems to have taken the wind out of the dragon’s sails. Quite literally. Around 28.5 per cent of […]
The entire US West Coast was issued a Tsunami warning after a massive volcano erupted across the Pacific Ocean in Tonga on Saturday. The tsunami waves might also have a low-level flooding effect in Hawaii. The US National Weather Service gave tsunami warnings from the lower part of California to Alaska’s the Aleutian Islands, foreseeing […]
After hiatus of over a year, the iconic Coke Studio Pakistan has made a comeback with its fourteenth edition. The series has premiered on Friday, January, 15,2022 on YouTube, and has already taken its fans on a musical frenzy ride. The viewers were seen gushing over the performances of veteran Sufi singer Abida Parveen and […]
Newsroom closures and exodus from territory are results of the ‘draconian’ national security law introduced in 2020. As the last news programme came to a close and anchors bade farewell to their online audience on January 3, Chris Yeung, the founder and chief writer of Citizen News, gathered together his staff and tried to strike […]
The University of Oxford has appointed Indian origin renowned academic Soumitra Dutta as the Dean of Saïd Business School. He will take up the post from 1st June this year. Soumitra Dutta was the founding dean of Cornell SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University, New York. He is currently a professor of management […]
“Baby Shark” is now the first YouTube video to have officially garnered 10 billion views. Produced by Pinkfong, a South Korean entertainment company, the hugely popular video is the remix of an American campfire original. It was first uploaded on YouTube in 2016. The colourful video shows two children dancing to the hummable song as […]
A Finnish startup claims that it is making a vegan protein 10 times more climate-friendly than most plant-based proteins and 100 times more climate-friendly than meat. What if we could grow nutritious food, literally out of thin air? Solar Foods, a Finnish government-backed food-tech start-up, says it has developed a process to do exactly that. […]
New Delhi: Nepal’s ruling party, Nepali Congress, has criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his announcement on road expansion across the Lipulekh area, which the Himalayan state also claims as its own. During an election rally on December 30 in Uttarakhand, Modi had said that his government has “built the road up to Lipulekh and it […]
Engineers have started turning 18 gold-plated mirrors on NASA’s James Webb telescope. Once aligned, the giant mirror can collect even the faintest light from the universe. The team also commanded 126 actuators for moving and shaping the segments into place. The six devices will then position the secondary mirror and verify its workings. “The fine […]
