A chain of U.S. survival communities plan to activate and open to members for the first time over fears of violence following the presidential election on Nov. 3. Fortitude Ranch camps in West Virginia and Colorado will open on election day to protect members, the company’s October newsletter said. Regardless of whether Republican President Donald […]
Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and British-born scientist Michael Houghton won the Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus, a major source of liver disease that affects millions worldwide. Announcing the prize in Stockholm, the Nobel Committee noted that the trio’s work identified a major […]
President Donald Trump could be discharged from the hospital where he is being treated for COVID-19 as soon as Monday, according to his doctors, although his condition remains unclear and outside experts warn that his case may be severe. Hospitalised and quarantined at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington since Friday, Trump has […]
Ululations and cheers rang out as one by one, representatives from the transitional government and rebel groups signed the deal, a year after the peace talks began, at a ceremony in the South Sudanese capital Juba. “Today we have reached a peace agreement. We are happy. We have finished the mission,” Tut Gatluak, head of the South Sudanese mediating […]
The 32 survivors out of 49 charged with the alleged pre-planning of the destruction of Babri mosque in the December of 1992 – an incident that left 3,000 dead and changed India’s political landscape forever – were acquitted by a court in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, in a case that has been riding the sands […]
The viewer and the single, beleaguered moderator were left to sift through the incessant noise as President Trump and Former VP Biden name-called and spoke over the other to present – in the latter’s words – the most ‘unpresidential’ debate in recent history. The first debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden […]
Thai classroom have traditionally been a world of obedience, order and over-zeal. Showing defiance or rebelling against the strictly imposed haircuts, skirts hems, right down to the length of your socks, is akin to throwing a wrench in the system. And that’s the idea, according to young designer Tin Tunsopon, who engineered the typical ‘sailor-forms’ […]
The personal net worth of Indian big-wig Mukesh Ambani rose by 73 per cent to Rs 6.58 trillion, earning him the title ‘Asia’s richest’ for the ninth consecutive year on Tuesday. Ambani, 63, who heads the prolific Reliance Industries, one of India’s top-leading firms, is also among the top five wealthiest at a global level, […]
Monday saw a sum of recoveries in India peak and climb past the 5 million landmark, with recovered cases outpacing active ones by more than 5 times. “India’s steady trend of posting high level of daily recoveries continues”, remarked the Indian Ministry of Health, alluding the feat to its ‘enhanced medical infrastructure, implementation of Standard […]
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority, RTA, unveiled an initiative for exempting electric vehicles licensed in Dubai from public parking fees for two years starting from July 1, 2020. The step supports Dubai’s Green Mobility Strategy by encouraging the use of this type of vehicles. “This initiative complements a previous initiative launched in 2018 designating parking […]
The emirates launched its first environmental nano-satellite on Monday, crafted by the students of Khalifa University, KU, and the American University of Ras Al Khaimah, AURAK. As part of the UAE Space Agency’s efforts to drive experiential learning in universities, MeznSat was carried to a low Earth orbit altitude of 575km from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome […]
