The Senate on Wednesday confirmed that Vanita Gupta will serve as the Associate Attorney General of the United States, making her the first person of colour to occupy the third highest position at the Department of Justice. The Senate voted 51-49 to confirm Gupta. Her appointment comes after Senator Lisa Murkowski joined the Democrats to […]
Former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin, 45, was found guilty of murder and manslaughter by a jury on Tuesday, nearly a year after he used his knee to pin the neck of an African American man, George Floyd, to the ground, killing him. Chauvin faces a potential 40-year jail sentence. George Floyd’s death had sparked the […]
National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) Ingenuity Mars helicopter, designed by IIT Madras alumnus J (Bob) Balaram, made history on Monday by becoming the first powered and controlled flight on another planet. The US space agency hailed the achievement as ‘our Wright brothers moment’. Bob Balaram, Ingenuity’s chief engineer, said the helicopter was in fine […]
Credit card details of nearly 10-lakh people, who purchased online on Domino’s Pizza India, is allegedly being sold for over Rs 4 crore on the Dark Web, claimed a cyber security researcher on Sunday. According to Alon Gal, CTO of security firm Hudson Rock, a threat actor has claimed to have hacked Domino’s India database […]
Dogecoin, which started as a meme cryptocurrency back in 2013, recorded its highest ever value yet. The virtual currency, made popular by Tesla chief Elon Musk, soared more than 100% to hit an all-time high of $0.298 on Friday morning, according to cryptocurrency news and data provider Coin desk. A large number of Musk’s followers […]
Instagram is launching a small global test where users can choose whether to hide like counts on their own posts or other people’s posts. This move by the Facebook-owned social media company will give its users the freedom to choose what they prefer – ‘likes’ or ‘no likes’. According to the AFP report obtained by […]
With the Olympics Games just 99 days away, a senior Japanese ruling party official has admitted that cancelling this year’s Olympic Games remains an option. Toshihiro Nikai, secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, said Japan might have to ‘give up’ on the Tokyo Olympics if rising coronavirus cases in the country made the event “impossible”, […]
Indian-origin Akanksha Arora, 34, is running run for the post of United Nations (UN) Secretary-General. She is the first person to declare her candidacy against incumbent Antonio Guterres, who is seeking a second five-year term beginning January 2022 as the chief of the world organisation. Akanksha Arora, who works as an audit coordinator for the […]
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced on Tuesday said that it is speeding approvals for foreign-produced Covid-19 vaccines that have been granted the Emergency Use Authorisation (EAU) in other countries. This is likely to help expand the basket of jabs available for domestic use and speed-up the nationwide vaccination exercise. India, now the […]
The Japanese government has decided to release treated radioactive water that has been accumulating at the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean a decision that has angered neighbouring countries, including China and South Korea and local fishermen. The government will hold a meeting of related ministers as early as this week to formally decide on […]