The ongoing agitation over irregularities in recruitment examinations has turned tense in India's Jharkhand. Members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) were involved in scuffles with police while marching towards the residence of Chief Minister Hemant Soren in solidarity with agitating students. Police detained 8 to 10 protesters during the incident on Friday, August 7.
Nearly three decades after a body became one of Mount Everest’s most haunting landmarks, India is preparing to bring the remains known as “Green Boots” back from the mountain.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Moderna’s mRNA-based influenza vaccine, marking the world’s first regulatory approval for an mRNA vaccine designed to prevent seasonal flu.
The race to establish a sustained human presence beneath the ocean is gaining momentum, with private companies investing in technologies that could eventually make life on the seafloor a reality.
The US Senate has overwhelmingly passed legislation that could pave the way for tariffs of up to 100 per cent on goods from India, China and three other major buyers of Russian oil and gas, escalating Washington’s economic pressure on countries accused of helping finance Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
US President Donald Trump’s plan to build a $400 million ballroom at the White House has suffered a major legal setback after a federal appeals court ordered construction to be halted. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 on Friday (August 7) to uphold an injunction blocking construction of the proposed ballroom on the White House’s east side.