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Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) and Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad have collaborated to benefit students through shared resources, research internships and immersive summer programmes. The collaboration agreement seeks to capitalise on the strengths of both institutions, broadening the learning experience for students enrolled in the Bachelor of Science (BS) programmes at IIT […]

Representative image A Southwest Airlines plane preparing for takeoff at Texas’ Dallas Love Field on Friday night was struck by a bullet, prompting the aircraft to return to the terminal, according to the airline’s statement.“Southwest Airlines Flight 2494 was set to depart for Indianapolis when a bullet apparently struck the right side of the plane, […]

Gabon President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema speaks during a plenary session at the COP29 UN Climate Summit, Wednesday, Nov 13, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP) LIBERVILLE: Gabon holds a referendum Saturday on a new constitution that the junta calls a “major turning point” after a coup that brought the curtain down on 55 years of […]

RAIPUR: Five Maoists were shot dead in an encounter with security forces in the Abujhmarh forests of Chhattisgarh on Saturday morning. This area borders the Kanker-Narayanpur districts of the Bastar division in Chhattisgarh.Five automatic weapons and explosives were seized from the encounter site.Two DRG jawans were also injured in Maoist attack, authorities reported on Saturday. […]

File photo NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday questioned Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren of giving Fridays off in schools, a decision reversed by the JMM government in 2022.“I want to ask Hemant Soren, if you close schools on Fridays for them, then why not close schools on Tuesdays for our […]

NEW DELHI: Six young lives, including three women, died in a high-speed collision at ONGC Chowk in Dehradun early Tuesday. The MUV they were traveling in rammed into a container truck, leaving the vehicle mangled. The sole survivor, 25-year-old Siddhesh Agrawal, is in stable condition but cannot speak.The last hours of seven friendsThe victims, aged […]

Jhansi/Lucknow: At least 16 children are battling for their lives while 10 newborns died as a fire broke out last night at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi. The fire erupted in the Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) around 10:45 pm, said District Magistrate (DM) Avinash Kumar, who confirmed the […]

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will appoint a new Prime Minister and Cabinet on Monday (November 18, 2024) after his National People’s Power (NPP) secured a record-breaking victory in the snap general election. The NPP on Friday (November 15, 2024) swept the Parliamentary elections by winning a two-thirds majority, and also dominating the Jaffna […]

At a secretive factory in Russia’s central grasslands, engineers are manufacturing hundreds of decoy drones meant to overwhelm Ukrainian defenses as they try to protect against a horrific new weapon, an Associated Press investigation has found. The plant at Russia’s Alabuga Special Economic Zone recently started churning out thermobaric drones alongside the decoys, the investigation […]

President-elect Donald Trump promised repeatedly during his campaign to expand oil drilling in the U.S., which is good news for political leaders in Alaska, where oil is the economic lifeblood and many felt the Biden administration has obstructed efforts to boost the State’s diminished production. U.S. oilfield firms slash prices as mega-mergers shrink customer base […]

A species of marine that scientists lost sight of for almost 70 years recently made its comeback when researchers discovered evidence of a certain ocean worm’s existence in images taken by scuba divers. The worms were found coexisting with the seahorses in coral colonies from Australia to Japan, reported CNN.  The long-lost worm is Haplosyllis […]

The daughters of civil rights leader Malcolm X have filed a $100 million lawsuit against the FBI, CIA, and New York Police Department (NYPD), accusing the agencies of playing a role in the assassination of their father in 1965. The lawsuit, filed on Friday in Manhattan federal court, alleges that these agencies not only knew of […]