Washington, Oct 15 (IANS) NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of solar energetic particles (SEPs) at the Red Planet. The solar energetic particles (SEPs) are streams of high-speed particles blasted from the sun during explosive solar activity like flares or coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Around […]
Seoul, Oct 15 (IANS) Military officials of South Korea and North Korea Wednesday held talks at the village of Panmunjom, media reported. Military officials from the two Koreas started a dialogue from 10 a.m. in Panmunjom, Xinhua reported citing broadcaster YTN. Earlier Wednesday, Yonhap news agency reported citing unidentified government sources that the two Koreas “are […]
La Paz, Oct 15 (IANS) Bolivia has enacted a new law designed to combat domestic violence and encourage victims to stand up and speak out their sufferings. The law is particularly aimed at reducing domestic violence against women, who are often reluctant to speak out, Xinhua cited Bolivian News Agency as quoting Bolivian President Evo Morales […]
Washington, Oct 15 (IANS) Telugu Association of North America (TANA), the largest Telugu organization outside India, has announced that it will be making an initial contribution of $100,000 for relief efforts for the victims of cyclone Hudhud. Expressing shock at the unprecedented disaster caused by cyclone Hudhud in the northern districts of Andhra Pradesh, TANA President […]
Austin (Texas), Oct 15 (IANS/EFE) Nina Pham, the US nurse who became infected with Ebola, has said that she is doing “well”, according to a communique released by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, where she has been quarantined since Oct 10. “I’m doing well and want to thank everyone for their kind wishes and prayers. […]
London/Berlin/Monrovia, Oct 14 (IANS) London’s Heathrow airport Tuesday began applying new precautionary measures to detect possible cases of Ebola virus disease in passengers arriving from West African countries even as a Sudanese national infected by the virus died in Germany. A Heathrow spokesman told Efe news agency that the new measures went into effect Tuesday morning […]
Baghdad/London/Beirut, Oct 14 (IANS) At least 50 people were killed Tuesday in clashes and airstrikes against IS positions in Iraq, a security source said, even as the fight against the Sunni radical group continued in neighbouring Syria. In Salahudin province, Iraqi security forces, backed by Shia militia, captured three villages in the southeastern town of Dujail, […]
London, Oct 14 (IANS/EFE) London’s Heathrow airport began Tuesday applying new precautionary measures to detect possible cases of Ebola virus disease in passengers arriving from West African countries affected by the deadly virus. An airport spokesman told Efe news agency that the new measures went into effect Tuesday morning and were being applied by the staff […]
United Nations, Oct 14 (IANS) India has called on the international community to tackle the twin digital divides — that between developed and developing nations and that between men and women in developing countries. While “growth of information and communications technologies (ICT) over the past decade has exceeded all expectations,” India’s Ambassador to the UN Asoke […]
Tokyo, Oct 14 (IANS) Japan’s Daisuke Takahashi, a Vancouver Olympics bronze medallist, announced Tuesday that he is retiring from competitive figure skating. “I’ve decided to retire so that I can take the next step in my career,” Takahashi said, reports Xinhua. “It was a quick decision but I didn’t want to fuss about it for too […]