SINGAPORE: The United States, Britain and Australia are working together to develop unmanned undersea vehicles as part of their trilateral Aukus defence pact, US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth told reporters on Saturday.Aukus said in a joint statement that delivery of the vehicles will start in 2027.The programme will improve the three nations’ reconnaissance and […]
File photo: World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Picture credit: AP) World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has urged stronger international support to contain a fast-spreading Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), warning that delays in response and mistrust within communities are hampering efforts to control the virus.Tedros made the […]
NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency told a parliamentary committee on Friday that it is taking measures to rule out a repeat of the NEET paper leak, which has affected lakhs of students, while the National Medical Commission said it will work to keep the admission seat matrix for counselling on schedule so that students […]
New Delhi: United Nations will posthumously honour two Indian peacekeepers on the International Day of UN Peacekeepers on Friday for making the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.Lance Havildar Harbhajan Singh, who served with UN Organisation Stabilisation Mission in Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), and Naib Subedar Sujit Kumar Pradhan, who was deployed […]
CHANDIGARH: Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has been granted a 30-day parole, marking his 16th furlough since his conviction in August 2017.Visuals of him leaving from Rohtak’s Sunaria Jail have also surfaced.In March, this year, a Haryana court had acquitted Ram Rahim Singh of the charge of involvement in the murder of […]
Tulsi Gabbard (File photo/PTI) US Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard is resigning from her post, according to a US media report on Friday, which said she plans to support her husband through his battle with “an extremely rare form of bone cancer.”According to Fox News, which first reported the development, Gabbard informed US […]
The World Health Organization’s Africa director on Friday warned against underestimating the risk posed by the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring Uganda, saying even a single case could trigger wider transmission beyond the affected countries, Reuters reported.Speaking to Reuters in Geneva, Mohamed Yakub Janabi said it would be “a […]
Amazon’s UK chief has said young people should not be blamed for rising unemployment levels, arguing the education system is failing to prepare them for work.John Boumphrey, Amazon’s UK country manager, said businesses across the country were struggling to recruit workers with the skills they need despite nearly a million young people in Britain being […]
NEW DELHI: “Cow slaughter will be done,” AJUP chief and West Bengal MLA Humayun Kabir said, triggering a fresh political controversy as he asserted that the Quran mandates qurbani and insisted that ritual sacrifice of animals would continue despite the state government’s recent restrictions on animal slaughter ahead of Eid.Stating that ritual sacrifice “will happen […]
An Indian-origin finance expert has been appointed as the new Chief Strategy and Investment Officer at Metropolitan Police.Hardev Virdee previously served as Group Chief Financial Officer at Barts Health NHS Trust and has spent more than a decade working in senior finance roles across the National Health Service, including positions at Central and North West […]
