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19 Oct 2016

There is speculation that WikiLeaks founder Julius Assange’s ties with Ecuador may be getting strained as his internet access at the nation’s London embassy was cut off midway through damaging disclosures about US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton

18 Oct 2016

14 Oct 2016

13 Oct 2016

The world’s longest-reigning, the world’s richest and the most adorned (at least among his own subjects), Bhumibol staved off numerous catastrophes through intelligence, fortitude and his love for the country

13 Oct 2016

"Bob Dylan writes poetry for the ear," Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy said, adding, "It's perfectly fine to read his works as poetry" as well

10 Oct 2016

10 Oct 2016

Oliver Hart from Harward and Bengt Holmström from MIT, have developed comprehensive theories on contract that "are valuable to the understanding of real-life contracts and institutions, as well as potential pitfalls in contract design"

08 Oct 2016

The move to shift out the incumbent ISI chief is widely seen as a fallout of the ISI's failure to detect India's plans against the terror camps within PoK and elsewhere

07 Oct 2016

President Santos initiated the negotiations that culminated in the peace accord between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas, and he persevered to move the peace process forward although voters rejected it in a referendum

07 Oct 2016

06 Oct 2016

Ambassador Vitaly Churkin of Russia announced the decision at a press conference in New York attended by representatives of all 15 Security Council member states, including his American counterpart Samantha Power

05 Oct 2016

05 Oct 2016

This year's winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L Feringa - have developed the world's smallest machines – molecular machines with controllable movements, which can perform a task when energy is added

04 Oct 2016

Discoveries by David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz helped illuminate how in some realms matter can exist in strange states, and in doing so helped scientists work with new forms of materials

04 Oct 2016

03 Oct 2016

03 Oct 2016

Yoshinori Ohsumi's elucidation of `autophagy’, a fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components, has helped in the understanding of how the cell recycles its content as also the many physiological processes, such as in the adaptation to starvation or response to infection

03 Oct 2016

01 Oct 2016

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to liken himself to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on Friday when he said he would “be happy” to exterminate three million drug users and peddlers in the country

29 Sep 2016

Apart from forfeiting his bonus and unvested equity, Wells Fargo chairman and CEO John Stumpf will not take his salary during an independent board investigation over the bank's fake-accounts scandal

28 Sep 2016

28 Sep 2016

Former Israeli Prime Minister, President and Nobel laureate Shimon Peres who died last night was  a political force for much of the modern Jewish state's existence

27 Sep 2016

26 Sep 2016

The announcement of the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative to end all diseases by the end of the century met with considerable initial scepticism, but now experts are veering around to the belief that it is doable – though it needs more focus on developing countries

24 Sep 2016

Asserting that Balochistan has always been a nation and existed even before the formation of Pakistan, exiled Baloch leader, the Khan of Kalat Amir Ahmed Suleman Daud, has said his adherents are considering forming a government in exile