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08 Oct

Narges Mohammadi: Iranian woman jailed for rights work wins Nobel Peace prize

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Narges Mohammadi, a 51 year old Iran's leading human rights activists who at present is behind bars serving multiple sentences in Tehran's notorious Evin prison has received 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for promoting human rights and freedom for all as well as the courageous activities she held against the oppression of women in Iran and relentless fight for social reform. In the past she had also campaigned for women’s rights and the abolition of the death penalty in Iran. After winning the award she gave her statement to The New York Times in which she asserted that she would never…

25 Sep

Nasa capsule returns to Earth with largest asteroid sample ever collected

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The largest sample collected from an asteroid in space, and the first for NASA, landed in the Utah desert on Sunday after a fiery final descent through Earth's atmosphere, seven years after the mission's launch."Touchdown of the Osiris-Rex sample return capsule. The one-billion-mile journey to asteroid Bennu and back is complete," a commentator said on NASA's live video webcast of the landing. The sample collected from Bennu in 2020 is estimated by the US space agency to contain about 250 grams (nine ounces) of the material, much more than the previous two asteroid samples brought back by the Japanese mission.

14 Sep

Google parent Alphabet lays off hundreds of employees

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, InternationalBusiness, INDIA, international

Google parent Alphabet Inc. on Wednesday laid off hundreds of employees from its global hiring team. This comes as an attempt by the tech giant to slow down the hiring process. Notably, Alphabet Inc. was the first "tech giant" to lay off employees this quarter, while others, such as Meta Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Amazon Inc., aggressively laid off in early 2023. It cut staff by about 6 percent in January, amounting to 12,000 jobs. The move in January marked Google's first "major" layoff in the company's history. The NY Times reported that as of June 30, the company had…

05 Sep

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 safely returns to Earth after 186 days

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Four astronauts aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavor spacecraft that splashed off the coast of Florida on Monday morning have successfully returned to Earth after completing their Crew-6 mission from the International Space Station. US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoberg, United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedayev landed safely aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavor in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, at 12:17 am EDT after 186 days in space, the space agency informed. According to NASA, crew students have contributed to hundreds of experiments and technology demonstrations,…

04 Sep

Woman steals iPhone 14 from store cutting anti-theft cable with her teeth

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, Crime, InternationalBusiness, international

A woman has been arrested for allegedly chewing on an anti-theft cable for stealing an iPhone 14 Plus worth $960 (Rs 79,414) from an Apple store in southern China's Fujian province, the South China Morning Post reported. The woman, identified as Qiu, was caught by police half an hour after leaving the store with the device. In a CCTV camera video that has gone viral on Chinese social media platforms, Ms Qiu is seen standing in front of a smartphone display stand. Then he leans on the counter and puts his right hand on a phone. After a brief test…

23 Aug

“India is the centre of universe…”: US Ambassador Eric Garcetti

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsIndia, InternationalBusiness, international

US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti on Tuesday highlighted the close cooperation between his country and India in various fields including technology, trade, environment and space. He said President Joe Biden told him that India was the most important country in the world to him. Delivering the keynote address at the Indiaspora G20 forum, Garcetti said that Indian Americans constitute six percent of the taxpayers in the United States. "He (President Biden) told me, when he asked me to come here to serve, he said, this is the most important country in the world to me, something that I think…

19 Aug

Elon Musk announces removal of block feature on X

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, InternationalBusiness, international

Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly known as Twitter), has announced that the platform will remove the blocking feature for its users, saying it "doesn't make sense." However, users will still have the ability to block others from sending direct messages. Musk's move is just one of many changes since the site was acquired in a $44 billion deal last year. Currently, when a user blocks an account, it prevents that account's posts from appearing in the blocker's timeline, and vice versa. In addition, a blocked account loses the ability to send messages to the blocker and view their…

22 Jul

The Dutch capital’s council has voted to restrict jumbo ships from docking in the city

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The council of the Dutch capital Amsterdam has voted to ban cruise ships in an effort to reduce the flow of tourists and reduce pollution from the giant ships, according to a municipal spokesman. It has also considered restricting jumbo ships from docking in the city and closing its central cruise-ship terminal. The spokesperson said the timeline and implementation details will be decided after discussions with various stakeholders. "The polluting cruise is not in line with Amsterdam's sustainability ambitions," says Ilana Ruderkirk. Amsterdam has one of the largest cruise ports in Europe, hosting hundreds of mega ships and around 700,000…

15 Jul

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has left for the United Arab Emirates

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After completing his visit to France, Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for the United Arab Emirates. The Prime Minister concluded his two-day visit to France and proceeded to hold talks with Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE and Ruler of Abu Dhabi. After a two-day visit to France, he proceeded to the United Arab Emirates where he held extensive talks with French President Emmanuel Macron and was awarded the country's highest civilian and military honor, the "Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour". External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi tweeted "Prime Minister Narendra Modi left France…

12 Jul

Nepal PM Dahal’s wife Sita Dahal passes away

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Sita Dahal, wife of Nepal's Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal breathed her last at Norvic international hospital in Kathmandu. She died at the age of 69 and was survived by her husband and 3 child. As per the reports it was known that she was suffering from Parkinson disease since a long time. 'Ms. Sita Dahal, 69 yrs/female, known case of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Parkinsonism, Diabetes Mellitus-ll and Hypertension under (on/off) Domicillary oxygen with PEG feeding and indwelling catheter went to cardiac arrest at 8 am,' said the hospital in a statement.