Rome, Oct 7 Italy appears to be heading for a new Covid-19 wave, with a spike in new cases and hospitalisations reported in the last week, according to the Health Ministry. On Thursday, the country registered nearly 45,000 new cases, slightly less from a day earlier but still well above ...

Aizawl, Oct 6 Australian Senator Dean Smith, who is on an official trip to Mizoram, told state Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati on Thursday that his government has been observing the situation in Myanmar ever since the military coup there in February last year. A Raj Bhavan official said that the ...

Washington, Oct 6 The US Department of Defense has added Shenzhen-based consumer drone maker DJI Technology to a list of firms allegedly connected to the Chinese military. The Defense Department last year said that systems produced by Da Jiang Innovations (DJI) pose potential threats to national security. The fresh list ...

Stockholm, Oct 6 (IANS) French author Annie Ernauz has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2022 "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory". "In her writing, Ernaux consistently and from different angles examines a life marked by ...

New York, Oct 5 Indian-origin biomedical scientist Maitreyee Wairagkar has been shortlisted for the prestigious 'Inspiring Women in Science' award by leading scientific journal Nature for developing advanced neurotechnology using artificial intelligence (AI). Wairagkar, who is currently a post-doctoral scholar at the University of California, Davis, is among the six ...

Stockholm, Oct 3 Swedish geneticist Svantee Paabo, whose work provided key insights into human evolution and and how humans spread around the planet by achieving "the seemingly impossible task" of cracking the genetic code of the Neanderthals was Monday announced as the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology ...

London, Oct 3 Simon Arora spent almost two decades transforming a money-losing retail chain into a European discount juggernaut, making the former McKinsey & Co. analyst and his family one of the UK's richest, the media reported. But lately the company that made them rich -- B&M European Value Retail ...

London, Oct 3 Footage of a huge freight train moving specialist military equipment associated with a nuclear-arms wielding division of Russia's Defence Ministry has been spotted on the move, prompting fears of an escalation in the conflict from President Vladimir Putin's forces, the media reported. A series of BPM-97 armoured ...

Ramallah, Oct 3 Palestine has urged the European countries to tie their relations with Israel to its adherence to international law, UN resolutions, and human rights principles. "The international community is required to hold Israel directly responsible for the escalation in the West Bank against the Palestinians, and to put ...

London, Oct 2 The economic toll of the opioid addiction and overdose crisis in the US reached nearly $1.5 trillion in 2020 alone and is likely to grow, a latest US Congressional report said. Opioid-related deaths soared during the Covid-19 pandemic, including from the powerful synthetic painkiller fentanyl, exacerbating an ...