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October 7, 2023 5:02 PM

India and Italy strengthen collaboration against terrorism and organized crime

In a display of unwavering commitment to combat terrorism and transnational organized crime, India and Italy came together for the 4th meeting of the India-Italy Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism and Organized Crime. The high-level gathering, ...

October 6, 2023 1:14 PM

Mexican President rejects U.S. plans to build new sections of wall for migrant issue

US President Joe Biden's administration said on October 6 it will add sections to a border wall to stave off record migrant crossings from Mexico, a move immigration experts said was not a reversal of his administration's anti-wall policy -- as it ma...

October 6, 2023 11:03 AM

India, EU discuss cyberspace and combating the criminal use of ICTs

India and European Union discussed cyber cooperation and mechanism in multilateral fora, including at the United Nations, and in regional settings, including at OSCE, ARF and G20 in Brussels. The Seventh India-EU Cyber Dialogue was held on 05 Oc...

October 4, 2023 4:50 PM

Nobel Chemistry prize awarded for discovery of quantum dots that bring colour to LED lights

Scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots," which illuminate computer monitors and television screens and are used by doctors to map tumours. "The N...

October 4, 2023 4:49 PM

EU member states trying to seal migration deal

Envoys of the European Union's 27 member states met in Brussels on October 3, hoping to overcome a latest spat between Rome and Berlin over charity ships to finalise an agreement on sharing out the task of caring for refugees and migrants. Envoys me...

October 4, 2023 12:09 PM

Switzerland, US donate $8 million to Brazil’s fund to fight Amazon deforestation

Switzerland and the United States have donated $8.4 million to Brazil's Amazon Fund to help stop deforestation and preserve the world's largest tropical rainforest, the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES) that manages the fund said on Tuesday...

October 4, 2023 9:39 AM

L’Huillier becomes fifth woman to secure a Nobel Prize in Physics, trio win for atom-imaging light pulses

Scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier on October 3, were jointly awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for using pulses of light to study the behaviour of electrons. The prize-awarding academy said their studies had given hu...

September 29, 2023 2:35 PM

Ukrainian President Zelenskiy & Russian dissident Navalny among favourites for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russian dissident Alexei Navalny are among favourites for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, but experts say campaigners for women, Indigenous peoples or the environment could well steal the stage. Given past ...

September 29, 2023 2:02 PM

First shipment of uranium for Rooppur nuclear power plant arrives in Bangladesh

The first batch of fresh uranium, the nuclear fuel of the first unit of Rooppur nuclear power plant (RNPP), has arrived in Bangladesh. According to official sources, the consignment of uranium arrived in Dhaka from Russia on Thursday afternoon throu...

September 28, 2023 9:29 PM

EU talks migration as Italy, Germany worry over increased arrivals

The European Union's interior ministers meet in Brussels on Thursday (September 28) to discuss how to handle migrants arriving by sea as Italy and Germany worry over increased immigration, with Berlin launching border controls inside Europe's zone of...

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