Education Minister Rob Stokes has expressed his congratulations to inspiring Sydney maths teacher Eddie Woo for his recognition today as one of the top 10 teachers in the world. Mr Woo, a teacher at Cherrybrook Technology High School, has won widespread praise for demystifying maths through his videos – known as WooTube– watched more than […]
Brazil will intensify negotiations in a bid to enter the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an official statement said. Brazil will strengthen its delegation to the OECD from March to meet the requirements for being a full member, Xinhua quoted the statement as saying. At present, the US, Canada, Mexico and Chile are […]
Two Russians were sentenced to 12 years and four years in prison, respectively, for hacking computer networks of major companies in the US, the New Jersey District Attorney’s office said. Vladimir Drinkman, 37, and Dmitriy Smilianets, 34, were members of a network of hackers who raised hundreds of millions of dollars in the largest cybercrime […]
A French court on Wednesday discharged Jawad Bendaoud, the landlord who provided his apartment to terrorists who killed 130 people here in November 2015. After a three-week trial, Bendaoud was cleared of “concealment of terrorist criminals” charges. According to the Paris criminal court, no evidence had been found to confirm the suspect knew he was […]
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday that work on a new plan for achieving peace in the Middle East peace is “fairly well advanced.” The US official made the remarks in a press conference with Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi, where he stressed that the US was committed to making peace […]
Taking a cue from global markets, the key Indian equity indices on Thursday opened higher. The Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE, which had closed at 34,155.95 points on Wednesday, opened higher at 34,207.57 points. Minutes into trading, it was quoting at 34,249.98 points, up by 94.03 points, or 0.28 per cent. At the National […]
The Jammu-Srinagar national highway remained closed for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday as authorities said landslide clearance work is still in progress. “No traffic will be allowed on the highway as road clearance operations are on at Battery Cheshma and some other parts of the road,” a traffic department official said. At least 2,000 […]
With a market cap of $702.5 billion, Amazon has become the third most valuable company in the world, racing past Microsoft, which has a market cap of $699.2 billion. According to a report in The New York Post, Amazon stock surged 2.6 per cent on Wednesday, taking the company’s market cap ahead of Microsoft for […]
Minimum temperatures throughout Jammu and Kashmir improved on Thursday as weather office forecast light rain till Tuesday. “The minimum temperatures improved due to cloud cover. Light rain is likely to occur during the next 24 hours,” a Met official said. In Srinagar, the minimum temperature was 1.9 while it was minus 0.9 in Pahalgam and […]
Chinese Ambassador to the US Cui Tiankai has said that it would be dangerous to advocate confrontation and instead expressed confidence that common interest and dialogue would outgrow any friction between the two nations. “It’s certainly paranoid to fear that a China that follows its own path of development would be confrontational to the US. […]