Washington, Feb 4 (UNI) U.S. Senate on Monday evening confirmed Chris Wright, CEO of an oilfield services company, to be the new secretary of the Energy Department. The upper chamber approved the nomination by a vote of 59-38. Wright is the CEO of Liberty Energy, a Denver-based company that provides hydraulic fracturing services to the…
Kochi, Feb 4 (UNI) India must strengthen its domestic manufacture and design of components for sensors and MEMS (micro electromechanical systems) to tap a burgeoning global market, according to experts, even as authorities assured that lack of funding will not hinder research in key areas of the domain. As a big market of the world,…
Ankara, Feb 4 (UNI) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Syria before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins on March 1, Turkish pro-government newspaper Turkiye reported, citing sources. Syria’s Interim President Ahmed Sharaa, will visit Turkey on Tuesday, February 4 and will officially invite President Erdogan to Damascus, and the latter will…
Sydney, Feb 4 (UNI) A 17-year-old girl died on Monday after being attacked by a shark at a beach on Bribie Island off the coast of Queensland, about 50 km north of Brisbane. Emergency services were called to the scene shortly before 5 p.m. local time. The Queensland Police Service said that the girl sustained…
Sydney, Feb 4 (UNI) Heavy rainfall has eased, but evacuated residents of northeastern Australia have been told it is not yet safe to return home amid widespread flooding. The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) on Tuesday morning canceled a severe weather warning that had been in place since Friday for Queensland’s North Tropical Coast region. Parts…
Jakarta, Feb 4 (UNI) A 6.1-magnitude earthquake rocked off Indonesia’s North Maluku province early Tuesday without prompting large waves, the country’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said. The agency had first issued the quake’s magnitude at 6.2 before revising it. The earthquake struck at 04:35 a.m. Jakarta time Tuesday (2135 GMT Monday), with its epicenter…
Gaza City, Feb 4 (UNI) The war in Palestine’s Gaza Strip will not resume after the implementation of the first stage of the ceasefire deal, Hamas political office deputy head Musa Abu Marzouk told Sputnik. “I rule out that the war will resume after the first stage [of the ceasefire deal]. Not because he [Israeli…
New Delhi, (UNI) The Supreme Court on Monday issued a significant directive restraining the Centre and state governments from taking any steps that would reduce forest areas without compensatory measures. A bench, comprising Justices B R Gavai and K Vinod Chandran, was hearing a batch of petitions challenging the 2023 amendments to the Forest Conservation…
New Delhi, (UNI) The Supreme Court on Monday sought clarification from the Union Government regarding the prolonged detention of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in correctional homes across India instead of deporting them to their native country. A bench comprising Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice R Mahadevan emphasized that once an illegal immigrant from Bangladesh is apprehended…
New Delhi, (UNI) The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain an appeal challenging the Karnataka High Court’s decision to quash criminal proceedings against former Karnataka BJP state president Naleen Kumar Kateel in an extortion case linked to the electoral bond scheme. A bench, comprising Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar,…
