Leaders of France, Britain head to Washington to urge Trump not to abandon UkraineFrench President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer are visiting Washington to urge President Donald Trump not to abandon U...
23 Feb, 2025, 11.32 AM IST
London: British Hindus protest outside Oxford Union over debate on Kashmir with speakers having 'terror' linksINSIGHT UK, a British Hindu and Indian social movement, protested outside the Oxford Union on Friday, accusing the debating society of host...
15 Nov, 2024, 09.15 AM IST
Latin American universities embrace ChatGPT despite cheating fearsThe popular AI chatbot can generate coherent prose, including essays, stories, summaries, legal text, and even poetry about virtually any s...
05 Jul, 2023, 05.08 PM IST
Varun Gandhi turns down Oxford Union invite to speak on if India on right path under PM ModiThe second leg of Parliament's budget session has been a washout so far, with the BJP demanding apology from the Congress leader for his "g...
17 Mar, 2023, 12.40 PM IST
TV debates (No spokespersons!): A revolution that deserves a futureCall me a naive bun with a cheesy topping, but I always found Richard S Slant's suggestions about political TV broadcasting in his 1961 pap...
05 Feb, 2022, 09.10 PM IST
Boris Johnson to set end-2022 target to vaccinate world at G7 SummitThe meeting, starting on Friday, is the first between G7 leaders since the coronavirus pandemic and the UK as president of the summit has m...
06 Jun, 2021, 06.30 PM IST
India invited to join G7 Health Ministers' Summit virtually, says British governmentThe University of Oxford has been chosen for its role at the heart of the global fight against COVID-19, with world-leading clinical trials...
20 May, 2021, 05.32 PM IST
2020: Pandemic, lockdowns and a vaccine tie-up boost for India-UK ties"The Serum Institute and Oxford University partnership demonstrates the UK-India relationship at its best: a vaccine developed in the UK an...
21 Dec, 2020, 11.32 AM IST
UK PM Johnson accepts PM Modi's invite, will be Republic Day parade chief guestDescribing India as a key player in the Indo-Pacific region, Johnson said on Tuesday that his visit will mark the start of an "exciting yea...
15 Dec, 2020, 03.34 PM IST
Smartphones can alert about Covid exposure, with help from Apple & Google contact-tracing toolsThe tools don't reveal a person's identity or geographic location.
07 Dec, 2020, 05.40 PM IST
Former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing dies at age 94Giscard d'Estaing's office said he passed away in his family home in the Loir-et-Cher region, in central France, after contracting COVID-19.
03 Dec, 2020, 09.51 AM IST
2nd COVID-19 wave looms, some parties busy in protests: Uddhav ThackerayMaharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday deprecated the conduct of "some parties" for putting the lives of people at risk by ...
24 Nov, 2020, 09.28 PM IST
Moscow announces advanced trials for new COVID-19 vaccineScientists around the world say any widely-used vaccine should first be tested in advanced trials involving tens of thousands of people to ...
28 Aug, 2020, 12.16 AM IST
Boris Johnson’s Parliament suspension faces multiple legal challengesHours after the premier said he intends to suspend Parliament for almost five weeks ahead of Brexit, a group of more than 70 British lawmak...
29 Aug, 2019, 12.18 PM IST
Twinkle Khanna to address Oxford University students - and showcase 'Padman'The Oxford Union is the world's most prestigious debating society.
17 Jan, 2018, 07.41 PM IST
Why Gujarat has become politically monochrome is a mysteryPlurality flourished in post-colonial politics even if it fell short numerically of requisite critical mass, under the Westminster model of...
01 Jun, 2014, 10.53 AM IST
- Remembering Jyotibabu
Madhuri Bose reminisces about her long association with the Marxist patriarch.
25 Jan, 2010, 05.44 AM IST