Last week’s relaxing of the ban on importing synthetic fertilizer will allow it to be brought into the country for specific types of cultivation. It will also pave the way for the import of organic nitrogen extracts to boost...
SINGAPORE - Flag carrier Singapore Airlines (SIA), its budget arm Scoot, and Changi Airport have been recognised for their efforts in facilitating safe international air travel amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
SIA and Scoot were awarded the highest five-star rating in...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday marked India’s stint as a rotating president of the UN Security Council for the month of August, as one of the 10 current non-permanent members, by presiding over an open debate on enhancing...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has called on countries to cancel Covid booster shots until at least the end of September in order to help ease the drastic inequity in dose distribution between rich and poor nations as well...
PM Narendra Modi will be the first Indian prime minister to preside over the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), said Syed Akbaruddin, India's former envoy to UN.
In a tweet, the former envoy to UN wrote, "A first in the...
Antibodies triggered by Sinovac Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine declined below a key threshold from around six months after a second dose for most recipients, but a third shot had a strong booster effect, a lab study showed.
Chinese researchers reported the...
Colombo, July 29: The Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), which won the Maldivian Presidential election in September 2018 and swept the parliamentary elections in February 2019 winning 65 out of the 87 seats, is now on the verge of a...
As the date of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan approaches, Biden administration officials and top lawmakers are urgently working on resettling a particularly vulnerable group of Afghans, according to officials in Washington: people who worked as the CIA’s local...
Rajya Sabha member John Brittas has moved the Supreme Court for a court-monitored investigation into allegations of snooping on activists, politicians, journalists and constitutional functionaries using the Israeli spyware, Pegasus.
The parliamentarian said the government’s response in the House to...
LONDON—As the Delta variant of the coronavirus surges through the U.K., almost half of the country’s recent Covid-19 deaths are of people who have been vaccinated. But doctors and scientists aren’t sounding the alarm about the apparently high proportion...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will raise issues of human rights and democracy with Indian officials during his first visit to New Delhi as the two nations have more values in common on those fronts than otherwise, according to...
Associate editor at Forbes, covering cybercrime, privacy, security and surveillance.
Shalev Hulio, 39, is the CEO and cofounder of NSO Group, one of Israel's most successful cybersurveillance companies valued at over $1 billion, and the man ultimately responsible for smartphone...
