06-02-2025 LONDON: A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally “unwrapped”, providing the first look inside for 2,000 years. The document, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD and is too fragile to ever …

06-02-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ AMRITSAR: A US deportation flight carrying about 100 Indian nationals accused of entering the country illegally has landed in the state of Punjab. The military aircraft, which left Texas late on Tuesday, is now in the city of Amritsar where authorities say they …

06-02-2025 BEIJING: China announced a wide range of measures on Tuesday targeting US businesses including Google, opens new tab, farm equipment makers and the owner of fashion brand Calvin Klein, minutes after new US tariffs on Chinese goods took effect. Beijing also slapped tariffs on US products such as coal, …

06-02-2025 NEW YORK, COLOMBIA: The pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, according to renowned climate scientist Prof James Hansen, who said the international 2C target is “dead”. A new analysis by Hansen and colleagues concludes that both the impact of recent cuts in sun-blocking shipping pollution, which has …

06-02-2025 CANBERRA: Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said; the government supported a two-state solution in the Middle East, following US. President Donald Trump’s shock announcement of plans to take over the Gaza Strip. “Australia’s position is the same as it was this morning, as it was last year,” Albanese told …

06-02-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s finance ministry has asked its employees to avoid using AI tools including ChatGPT and DeepSeek for official purposes, citing risks posed to confidentiality of government documents and data; an internal department advisory showed. Countries like Australia and Italy have placed similar restrictions on the …

06-02-2025 KINSHASA: Rebels in eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, began a ceasefire on Tuesday and people rushed to bury some 2,000 victims of last week’s battles for the city as they feared the spread of disease. The Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who captured Goma declared a ceasefire on Monday and largely …

New Delhi’Feb’5’2025:Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is poised to form the next government in Delhi with the ruling AAP falling behind, most exit polls predicted on Wednesday and said that Congress likely to continue its dismal run in the assembly polls. The exit polls varied in their prediction of margin of …

05-02-2025 By SJA Jafri + Agencies LISBON, PORTUGAL/ KARACHI: Billionaire philanthropist and spiritual leader Aga Khan has died at the age of 88, his charity the Aga Khan Development Network has announced. Prince Karim Aga Khan was the 49th hereditary imam of the Ismaili Muslims, who trace his lineage directly …

05-02-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the White House next week, a White House official said, hours after a US military plane departed to return deported migrants to the country. Trump spoke with Modi on …