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As President Joe Biden visited New Delhi, two powerful lawmakers have introduced legislation in the US House of Representatives to remove high-tech export barriers to India to give a big boost to the unrestricted export of sensitive technologies to the country and bolster bilateral technology...

India has begun commercial operation of its first domestically designed 700-MWe pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR) at the Kakrapar nuclear power plant in Gujarat, state-owned Nuclear Power Corp. of India Ltd. (NPCIL) reported on Aug. 30. Commercial operation of Unit 3 at Kakrapar Atomic...

The pair, a 38-year-old man and 55-year-old woman, used an excavator to widen an existing gap and make a shortcut, the authorities said. Two workers have been detained in northern China after the local authorities said they plowed through a section of the country’s Great Wall with an...

India has bold ambitions to harness its latent quantum potential. It’s courting partnerships with nations all around the globe — except China. Professor Bhupendra Dev got an exciting delivery in May: an ultra-low temperature dilution refrigerator built by a Finnish company Bluefors. It suited...

Almost weekly, news regarding Hindu and Christian children being kidnapped and abused by Muslim men emerge from Pakistan. Once abducted, these girls are forcefully converted to Islam, “married”, and raped. Many are forced to live with their abductors, and never see their families again. One of...

As Pakistan finds itself in another unpredictable monsoon season, vulnerable farming communities face a resurgence of indentured servitude and other forms of modern slavery. This spring, I spent time with farming families across rural Sindh and the Kacchi Plains of Balochistan, the two...

In what could be good news for the resistance movement and Myanmar’s National Unity Government (NUG), there appears to be shimmering tensions between Islamabad and Naypyitaw over the supply of a set of newly acquired JF-17s fighter planes. Military junta leader Min Aung Hlaing is said to have...

SHANGHAI (AP) — Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Wednesday said she warned Chinese leaders that U.S. businesses might stop investing in their country without prompt action to address complaints about worsening conditions due to raids on firms, unexplained fines and unpredictable official...

China's property sector has faced mounting stress in recent years, with developers struggling to service their enormous debt. Investor anxiety about the property crisis has fueled a rout in Chinese developers' dollar bonds, which have lost 87% of their value, according to Debtwire. As many as 53...

:rofl: Did Bangladesh sent their handicapped team by any chance?

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has arrested eight individuals for their involvement in the alleged torture and abduction of a youth expatriate in Iraq, a case that was reported by his family nearly two years ago. The arrested individuals are family members, residing in Bangladesh, of...

Dhaka [Bangladesh], August 28 (ANI): Bangladesh has reported eight more deaths from dengue in the past 24 hours till Monday morning, resulting in a number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in the country reaching 556 this year, Bangladesh-based Dhaka Tribune reported. During this...

NEW DELHI, Aug 25 (Reuters) - India is working on a new electric vehicle policy that would slash import taxes for automakers that commit to some local manufacturing, following a proposal by Tesla (TSLA.O) which is considering entering the domestic market, people with direct knowledge said. The...

Around 22GW of wind energy capacity will be added in India over the next five years, at the current pace of growth, according to a new report from GWEC. Under an accelerated growth scenario with heightened demand from central and state markets, as well as commercial and industrial consumers of...

At present, there are three dengue vaccine candidates that are being tested in humans in India. There are at least two indigenous vaccines against dengue under development in research institutes. With the expanding geography of dengue infections — in India as well as the world — an increasing...

Proposed National Research Foundation would spend $6 billion over 5 years, but is drawing mixed reactions The Indian government has announced an ambitious plan to create a new National Research Foundation (NRF) that would pump $6 billion into research over 5 years. But it is drawing mixed...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), after the success of Chandrayaan-3, has been basking in glory. However, there is a tight schedule ahead for the space agency. In a big boost to India's space prowess, the LM comprising the lander (Vikram) and the 26 kg rover (Pragyan), made the soft...

Aug 19 (Reuters) - An "abnormal situation" occurred at Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft on Saturday as it was preparing to transfer to its pre-landing orbit, Russia's national space agency Roskosmos said. The Russian spacecraft is scheduled to land on the south pole of the moon on Monday, part of a...

Two years on from when the Taliban took Kabul, the outflow of young Talibs has renewed fears of violent extremism spilling across Afghanistan’s borders. As a child studying in a madrasa in Afghanistan, Mohammad Khalid Tahir dreamed of waging jihad. By the time he was a teenager, he had joined...

China in July recorded a five-fold increase in its number of Mpox cases. The new high was recorded even as the government ramps up efforts to contain the spread of the infectious disease. As per a statement by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 96 per cent of the patients...