India space agency launches its heaviest satellite

December 24, 2025

NEW DELHI (AFP): India’s space agency launched its heaviest ever payload on Wednesday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling the deployment “a significant stride” for…

India nightclub fire kills 25 in Goa

December 7, 2025

Photo: Hindustan Times MUMBAI, India(AFP): A fire that ripped through an Indian nightclub in the popular tourist resort region of Goa killed 25 people, the…

UN rights chief warns over generative AI

November 24, 2025

GENEVA (AFP/RSS): The UN on Monday warned that generative AI could become “a modern-day Frankenstein’s monster”, with human rights the first casualty, as powerful tech…

Feasibility study launched for lake at Jaljala tourist site

November 24, 2025

November 24, Kathmandu: A feasibility study has begun to construct an artificial lake at Jaljala, which is at an altitude of 3,200 meters. Jaljala is…

Israel’s Netanyahu vows to keep striking Hamas and Hezbollah

November 23, 2025

Jerusalem (AFP/RSS): Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Sunday that Israel would do “everything necessary” to stop Hezbollah from regrouping in Lebanon and Hamas from…

Bangladesh court sentences ousted ex-PM Sheikh Hasina to death for ‘crimes against humanity’

November 17, 2025

A Bangladesh court on Monday afternoon found ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina guilty of committing “crimes against humanity” during the July-August uprising in 2024.…

US confirms successful stockpile flight tests of B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb

November 16, 2025

Washington DC [US] (ANI): The United States has successfully concluded a series of critical stockpile flight tests of its B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb carried by…

China: 4 mice sent for life-science tests in space return to Earth

November 16, 2025

Beijing [China] (ANI): The ninth batch of space science experiment samples, including four mice used in life-science tests, returned by the Shenzhou-21 spacecraft from the…

India tests digital systems for biggest ever census

November 7, 2025

NEW DELHI (AFP): India is trialling mobile software systems as it prepares to conduct the world’s largest — and first fully digital — population census…