Four Indian-origin children are among five winners of a premier science and engineering competition for middle school students in the US, with a 14-year-old Indian-origin boy taking the top award. Akilan Sankaran, 14, from Albuquerque, New Mexico, won the coveted $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize, the top award in the Broadcom MASTERS, America's premier science and...
This Diwali season shoppers can bring a little extra light to the kids of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® while supporting South Asian-owned businesses. GYFTING, an online marketplace for curated gift boxes, is releasing a limited-edition Diwali gift box, part of whose proceeds will go toward St. Jude research and treatment of childhood cancer and other life-threatening...
By Bhaswati Bhattacharya Diwali, the sloppy, shortened form of deep-awali (deep = oil lamp, awali = in a row) is the darkest of nights turned into a willful force of light. A billion people light oil lamps on the no-moon night in the ancient month of Karthik, which now corresponds to November. Over the millennia, this...
New Delhi: Lahore has been declared the most polluted city in the world, leaving its traditional rival New Delhi far behind, Dawn reported. The official Air Quality Index (AQI) of Lahore was reported at 289 (as per the average between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.) and international monitoring bodies put the score at 397 this...
New Delhi: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani promised to fight till death but fled Kabul when the Taliban came and captured the capital city, Dawn reported. In a CBS News interview, Blinken was asked if he had personally tried to persuade Ghani to stay in Kabul. The Secretary...
New Delhi: Pakistan was likely to decide this week about whether to send its National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf to New Delhi for a conference on the situation in Afghanistan, official sources familiar with the development said, according to The Express Tribune. India extended the invitation to Yusuf to attend the regional conference being hosted...
New Delhi: India saw a whopping Rs 7.7 lakh crore (over $100 billion by value) digital transactions via unified payments interface (UPI) in October for the first time, according to latest data released by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). In the month of October that saw record festive shopping across e-commerce platforms, digital...
New Delhi: Amid the pandemic last year, Indian shoppers helped e-commerce platforms clock $7.4 billion (about Rs 52,000 crore) in total gross merchandise value (GMV) during the festive months (October-December). This year, as retail shops reopen and Covid cases slow down, Indians are expected to buy goods worth a whopping $9 billion (Rs 64,000...
Rome: French President Emmanuel Macron has accused Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison of lying to him while negotiating a submarine deal with Washington and London that sidelined Paris. Macron’s allegation came as the two leaders attended the G20 summit in Rome, their first meeting since Australia scrapped a multibillion-dollar deal with France for conventional submarines in...
