An entire generation of Syrians has had its education truncated, and the country’s once flourishing academic community has been scattered or driven underground. The scale of the problem, according to the president of the Institute of International Education (IIE), Allan Goodman, is “unprecedented” in the near 100-year history of his ... Read More »
The U.S. is looking for stronger and closer relations with India but not for “anything exclusive,” Defence Secretary Ash Carter said, days ahead of his three-day visit to India that starts on April 10. Mr. Carter, a strong proponent of deeper cooperation between India and the U.S., said he spent ... Read More »
Days before U.S. Defence Secretary Ash Carter is to visit India, there is no clarity on whether three key foundational agreements will be signed during the visit, officials on both sides told The Hindu. Negotiations on the Logistics Support Agreement (LSA) — one of the three agreements — which would ... Read More »
Swiss police raided the European soccer body UEFA on Wednesday to seize information about a contract disclosed in the Panama Papers that was signed by Gianni Infantino, now head of the global soccer body FIFA. The impact of the leaked documents from a Panamanian law firm is snowballing, with Iceland ... Read More »
Ofsted inspectors said there was no assurance that vulnerable children were safe or “effectively protected” due to inadequate services at Dudley Council. The authority had been aware of the deficits for “some time” but had not acted quickly enough, they added. Dudley Council said it would “continue at pace” to ... Read More »
Pakistan’s Joint Investigation Team (JIT) undertook its trip to India with a “cooperative” approach, the Pakistan Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. In a press statement that seemed at variance with Pakistani media reports which claimed that the JIT had drawn a blank in India, the MFA said investigations were still ... Read More »
WEDNESDAY, April 6, 2016 — Hydromorphone — an opioid painkiller — may be another treatment option for heroin addiction, a new Canadian study suggests. The research included more than 200 heroin addicts in Vancouver. They hadn’t responded to commonly used treatments such as methadone or suboxone. This was the first ... Read More »
CORNELL, N.Y.– Marketing is making people eat when they’re not hungry, and that’s making people less healthy, according to a new study. Researchers at Cornell University found when people eat when they’re not hungry, blood glucose levels rise more than if they wait until they are hungry to eat. But ... Read More »
The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached assets worth Rs. 53 crore in connection with the ongoing investigation into allegations of money laundering of about Rs.2,330 crore funds procured from nationalised banks by Surya Vinayak Industries Limited (SVIL) and its sister concern. Those named as accused are Surya Vinayak Industries, its ... Read More »
A new U.S. rule aimed at protecting retirement savers from profit-hungry brokers turned out to be much weaker than an initial proposal after the Obama administration bowed to pressure from the financial services industry. The rule, announced by the Department of Labor on Wednesday, sets a so-called fiduciary standard for ... Read More »
NEW YORK — A 14-year-old who lost his nose in an accident is thought to be the first person in the United States to have received a 3D-printed nose, restoring his senses of smell and taste, according to doctors at Mount Sinai hospital. Dallan Jennet, a 14-year-old from the Marshall ... Read More »
A Supreme Court-appointed committee led by former CBI Special Director M.L. Sharma on Wednesday handed over its report on investigations into frequent meetings held by the investigating agency’s former chief Ranjit Sinha with prominent accused in the coal scam cases as revealed from a leaked visitors’ logbook maintained at his ... Read More »
