Two best friends who grow coral and the country of Costa Rica are among the winners of the first ever Earthshot Prizes, BBC reported on Monday.
The annual awards were created by the Duke of Cambridge to reward people trying to save the planet.
There (...)
The US will reopen transAtlantic flights to vaccinated passengers on Nov. 8, following 18 months of restrictions that have hit many international carriers, travel companies and businesses hard.
The White House on Friday said it would lift COVID-19 (...)
India reopened to fully vaccinated foreign tourists traveling on chartered flights on Friday in the latest easing of its coronavirus restrictions as infection numbers decline.
Starting Friday, the country will grant tourist visas to travelers (...)
The United States has said it will reopen its borders to fully vaccinated travellers from 33 countries on Nov. 8, BBC reported on Friday.
Under new rules announced by the White House, vaccinated people who have had a negative test in the 72 hours (...)
Carbon emissions are rebounding strongly and are rising across the world's 20 richest nations, BBC reported quoting a new study.
The Climate Transparency Report says that CO2 will go up by 4% across the G20 group this year, having dropped 6% in 2020 (...)
India has withdrawn mandatory quarantine for fully vaccinated UK nationals arriving in the country.
Under the revised rules, which were announced on Wednesday, British citizens no longer have to undergo 10 days of quarantine.
This came days after UK (...)
The much anticipated re-opening of Indonesia's famed tourist island Bali has seen a slow start, with no international flights scheduled, BBC reports.
As of Thursday, fully vaccinated travellers from 19 countries including China, India, and France (...)
Deaths from tuberculosis – one of the top infectious killers in the world – have increased for the first time in a decade, as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
New data from the UN health (...)
The US has said it will reopen its borders with Mexico and Canada to fully vaccinated travelers from November, BBC reported.
In a statement, its Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it will allow travel for non-essential purposes via land and (...)
According to a new global study of the difference in earnings between couples, women earn lower than their husbands, BBC reported.
The study examined publicly available data from 45 countries across a four-decade period - from 1973 to 2016 -- for (...)
Russia hit another record of daily coronavirus deaths Tuesday as the country struggled with a rapid surge of infections and lagging vaccination rates, but authorities have been adamant that there would be no new national lockdown.
The government (...)
British author J.K. Rowling's new children's book The Christmas Pig, her first children's novel since Harry Potter, was published Tuesday.
The book, illustrated by Jim Field, is the story of a little boy called Jack, and his beloved toy Dur Pig, and (...)
Saudi Indian Healthcare Forum (SIHF) — Jeddah chapter is organizing a blood donation camp on Oct. 13t and 14 at International Medical Center (IMC).
The event is planned to celebrate 75 years of friendship between India and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (...)
Siddharth Bindroo, 40, was on his way to a restaurant in Kashmir's main city Srinagar when he received a call. "Papa is dead," said the caller, leaving Bindroo, a noted endocrinologist in the region, shocked. According to BBC, some men allegedly (...)
JEDDAH — With both Saudi Arabia and India embarking on developing new programs and policies to foster innovation in different sectors of the economy, providing platforms and collaboration opportunities for different stakeholders, and overseeing (...)
Repeatedly testing the limits and patience not just of individuals but the medical infrastructure too, the pandemic has challenged India's crisis management capabilities to an extent that has never been seen in the past.
Reeling against all odds, (...)
"Only when I met her, did I realise that I had the gun but no bullets to fire it."
This is how Bhavna Narkar, a 28-year-old Dalit woman activist, described her mentor, Manjula Pradeep, 52, according to a BBC report.
Ms Narkar is one of dozens of (...)
Nuclear scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan passed away in Islamabad on Sunday morning at the age of 85, the Dawn newspaper reported.
According to Radio Pakistan, he was admitted to a local hospital where his health deteriorated early morning. PTV said (...)
The UK has eased travel restrictions for fully vaccinated Indians who have received a UK-approved jab. Starting Oct. 11, they will not have to self-isolate or take a COVID test when they arrive in the UK.
The move is a relief to thousands of Indians (...)
Bahrain has updated travel measures related to COVID-19 curbs, removing 11 more countries from its red list.
The kingdom's civil aviation authorities said that as of October 10, South Africa, Namibia, Uganda, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, (...)
India and Denmark on Saturday inked four agreements to enhance bilateral cooperation in areas of mutual interest on sidelines of talks between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen here. The two nations on (...)
The Human Rights Council recognized this Friday, for the first time, that having a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right.
In resolution 48/13, the Council called on states around the world to work together, and with other (...)
Mukesh Ambani, Asia's richest person, joined Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in the world's most exclusive wealth club with a fortune of at least $100 billion.
The chairman of India's Reliance Industries Ltd. entered the rarefied group of 11 men as his (...)
A pair of rare diamond and emerald spectacles from an unknown Indian princely treasury will be sold at an auction in London later this month, BBC reported.
The lenses were placed in the Mughal-era frames around 1890, according to auction house (...)
The son of an Indian federal minister who was summoned by police for questioning has failed to turn up, BBC reported.
Ashish Mishra was called in six days after he was accused in an attack that left eight people dead.
A car linked to his father, (...)
