At least 35 people were killed and over 50 wounded as Iraq witnessed unabated incidents of violence Thursday. Eleven people were killed and 35 injured in a deadly bombing attack in Baghdad in the evening, police said, hours after it said 24 people died and 16 wounded in separate violent attacks in different parts of […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said it will send a fact-finding team to Ukraine in response to its request for support after the political upheaval. “The Ukrainian authorities informed me today of their request for support from the IMF,” Xinhua quoted IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde as saying in a statement. “We are ready […]
European Parliament urged EU Thursday to help Ukraine with urgent financial aid while enforcing targeted sanctions against “those responsible for violence” there, Xinhua reported. “To help Ukraine tackle its worsening economic and balance of payments difficulties, the EU and international financial organisations should offer both a short-term financial rescue package, and a longer term one, […]
At least 12 people were killed and 30 injured when an explosion occurred at a restaurant located adjacent to a petrol station in Qatar’s capital city of Doha Thursday morning, officials said. All 12 reported killed were Asians or Arabs, said the head of Qatar’s police force Maj Gen Saad al-Khulaifi, adding some of the […]
Six Indian nationals have been arrested at Biratnagar in eastern Nepal and arms and ammunition seized from them, Nepal Police said Thursday. Muralidhar Das, Bikas Kumar Paswan, Nitesh Kumar Yadav, Pramod Kumar Tanti, Phantus Tanti and Subodh Paswan of Bhagalpur district in India’s Bihar state, who entered Nepal in a Tata Indica car, were arrested […]
Four police officers were among five people killed in a truck explosion in Mokopane in northern South Africa early Thursday morning, authorities said. A grocery truck collided with a truck carrying cartridges and soon after the police arrived at the scene of the collision, the cartridges went off, killing the four officers and the truck […]
Here comes a new laser technology that can make you feel a lot better while at a queue for full-body scan at airports. Researchers have invented a more precise and direct method for using that ‘terahertz’ (THz) technology to detect explosives from greater distances. The method could ultimately lead to detectors that survey a wider […]
At a time when scientists the world over are experimenting with making cheaper alternative energies for our future, a team of scientists has invented a new technology that increases the odds of helping algae-based biofuels cross the gap and come closer to reality. The team’s invention – the environmental photobioreactor (ePBR system) – is the […]
Charosa Wineries has announced its debut here with a host of wines and an eye on the Goa market, which accounts nearly 20 percent of Indian wine trade. According to the company’s chief operating officer (COO) Parag Kamat, the brand plans to first consolidate in southwestern Indian states like Maharashtra, Goa, Kerala and Karnataka before […]
Debunking earlier theories that big stars form within very massive, isolated ‘cores’ weighing at least 100 times the mass of the sun, research offers insights into how cosmic seeds can grow into massive stars. Astrophysicists studied Snake nebula which is located about 11,700 light years from earth from Smithsonian’s Submillimeter Array (SMA) telescope. It was […]