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A national library employee shows a gold Nobel Prize medal in Bogota, Colombia. The Nobels, with new winners announced starting Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, often concentrate on unheralded, methodical, basic science. (AP File)

2020 Nobel season opens with medicine prize

No prizes are expected to be awarded this year for work directly linked to the new coronavirus

5 Oct 2020 10:53 AM IST

$PM Jacinda Ardern declared New Zealand \beat the virus again\. (Image: Facebook/Jacinda Ardern)$ World

New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern says 'we beat the virus again'

Ardern announced restrictions in the country's largest city would be eased, after a second COVID-19 wave was contained

5 Oct 2020 10:17 AM IST

US President Trump waves from the back of a car in a motorcade outside of Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland on October 4, 2020. (AFP)

COVID-hit Trump briefly leaves hospital to drive by supporters

The US president was moved to the military hospital on Friday, which his doctors and White House said was taken out of...

5 Oct 2020 9:46 AM IST

Weaken/remove encryption, and Facebook will instantly be branded Orwellian. Enforce encryption, and it becomes a lot harder to deal with bad actors on the platform. There are no winners here.

Tech This Week | Facebook services integration comes with trade-offs

Once WhatsApp and Instagram (and Oculus) became sufficiently big, it was time to integrate these properties into the...

4 Oct 2020 10:32 PM IST

On the deck of The First Ship: Officers who commanded INS Viraat go down memory lane

On the deck of The First Ship: Officers who commanded INS Viraat go...

The Viratees have retired but their memories of and on INS Viraat are still fresh, and they are transported right back...

4 Oct 2020 8:01 PM IST

Pradeep Maharathy

Odisha's ruling BJD MLA Pradeep Maharathy,65, dies of Covid-19

Considered a close confidante of former chief minister Biju Patnaik, Maharathy began his career from student politics

4 Oct 2020 7:05 PM IST

ife-size posters of BJP leaders displayed at party office ahead of the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, in Patna. PTI Photo

Waqyanawis | Hope alive for those shown the door in BJP reshuffle

The November 10 verdict is keenly awaited when results of these by-polls would be declared along with the Bihar Assembly...

4 Oct 2020 6:46 PM IST

A television journalist reports from the spot where the 19-year-old woman, who was allegedly gang-raped by four men, was cremated on the outskirts of Bool Garhi village in Hathras in Uttar Pradesh. AP Photo

Pavan K Varma | Napping media awakes, puts Yogi Adityanath on the spot

Thanks to the media, most of them brave young women, the entire nation was sickened by the pitiless and high-handed...

4 Oct 2020 6:28 PM IST

Picture credits: Stephen Handley

Shreya Sen-Handley | A Kolkata Kumroween' & other COVID sacrifices

There can be no Kumroween this year. No festivities of any sort for us in Kolkata

4 Oct 2020 6:23 PM IST

Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi meet the family members of a 19-year-old Dalit woman who died after being allegedly raped two weeks ago, at Bulgadi village in Hathras. PTI photo

Priyanka Gandhi lists Hathras victim family's demands

In a series of tweets, Priyanka Gandhi listed some of the demands and questions of the victim's family

4 Oct 2020 1:05 PM IST

Shiv Sena party supporters shout slogans during a protest against the Uttar Pradesh government over the death of Hathras victim, outside Churchgate Station in Mumbai. PTI photo

Sena slams Yogi govt, says there is Jungle Raj in UP

The UP police stopped Congress leader Rahul Gandhi from visiting the grieving family in Hathras

4 Oct 2020 12:41 PM IST

Activists of All India Democratic Students Organisation hold a demonstration in Bhopal demanding justice for gangrape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in UPs Hathras. PTI photo

MP 'gangrape victim' commits suicide as cops refuse to file FIR

CM Shivraj Chouhan takes note of the case, a policeman is arrested

4 Oct 2020 12:32 PM IST