Beijing : China on Thursday said its ties with India have been on an upswing recently and both sides have seen new achievements in political cooperation and various other fields. Beijing said it wants to work with New Delhi to sort out their disputes to keep the bilateral ties on the right track. “Recently, thanks […]
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It’s too late for Facebook to regulate itself: Tim Cook
San Francisco : Facebook should have had regulated itself long back but it’s too late for that now, Apple CEO Tim Cook has reiterated. In an interview with Recode and MSNBC scheduled to be aired on April 6, Cook also made a harsh rebuke of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others who use customer data […]
Malala returns to Pakistan five years after Taliban attack
Islamabad : Pakistani Nobel laureate and education activist Malala Yosafzai arrived here on Thursday, more than five years after she left the country following a failed assassination attempt by the Taliban for advocating girls rights to education. Yousafzai’s flight landed at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport at 1.41 a.m., reports Geo News. The 20-year-old was […]
13,000-year-old footprints found off Canadian coast
Ottawa : Researchers have uncovered 13,000-years-old footprints belonging to two adults and a child in Canada’s British Columbia, according to a study. In total, 29 footprints were uncovered on the shoreline of Calvert Island. “Fossilised footprints are rarely found in archaeological sites, although are (known) from coastal areas where they are sometimes exposed by erosion,” […]
Stormy Daniels’ lawyer seeks Trump testimony
Washington : A lawyer for adult entertainment star Stormy Daniels filed a motion in a California court on Wednesday to take a deposition from President Donald Trump in a legal battle over an agreement to keep the porn star quiet about her allegation that they had a sexual relationship. Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti said he […]
Kim secretly meets Xi in Beijing, pledges denuclearisation
Beijing : North Korean leader Kim Jong-un secretly met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing and pledged to denuclearise the Korean peninsula, surprising the world. The surreptitious meet between the leaders came before Kim’s talks with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and US President Donald Trump in April and May, respectively. A special train used […]
China agrees to share Brahmaputra river data with India
Beijing : China on Wednesday said it has agreed to share the Brahmaputra river water data with India, which it had withheld last year after the Doklam military stand-off. The announcement by the Chinese Foreign Ministry came a day after India and China held talks over the trans-border rivers in the eastern Chinese city of […]
Cambridge Analytica employee on India project may have been poisoned
New York : A Romanian employee of Cambridge Analytica (CA), who worked on its project in India, may have been “poisoned” in Kenya, an ex-employee has told a British parliamentary select committee. Christopher Wylie, a former employee of Cambridge Analytica, told the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee on Tuesday that Dan Muresan, who […]
Astronomers spot hot Earth-sized exoplanet
London : An international team of astronomers has detected a hot, metallic, Earth-sized planet outside our solar system which has a density similar to Mercury. “Mercury stands out from the other solar system terrestrial planets, showing a very high fraction of iron and implying it formed in a different way,” said David Armstrong from University […]
Kim Jong-un secretly visits Beijing, meets Xi
Beijing : After keeping it under wraps and the world guessing, China on Wednesday announced North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was indeed in Beijing, and met Chinese President Xi Jinping. An arrival of a special North Korean train and heightened security in Beijing had led the media to believe Kim was in town but neither […]