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TEL AVIV: Hamas has accepted a draft agreement for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of dozens of hostages, two officials involved in the talks said on Tuesday. Mediator Qatar said the negotiations were at the “closest point” yet to sealing a deal. An Israeli official said progress has been made, but the details are being finalized. The plan would need to be submitted to the Israeli Cabinet for final approval....more
SANTA MONICA: Powerful Santa Ana winds returned to the Los Angeles area on Tuesday, threatening to reverse some of the progress made in the battle against deadly wildfires that have destroyed entire neighborhoods and forced tens of thousands to flee their homes. Winds of 45 to 70 mph were forecast through the midweek, with peak wind gusts expected between Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service, which issued critical red flag warnings across much of southwestern California....more
GENEVA: The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has confirmed that the year that just passed -2024- was the warmest year on record, and that it is at about 1.55°C above pre-industrial levels. This is based on six various international datasets. It also said that the past 10 years, from 2015 to 2024, were the ten warmest years on record....more
By Deepak Arora
UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that today’s assessment makes it clear that global heating is a cold, hard fact, adding that governments must deliver new national climate action plans this year to limit long-term global temperature rise to 1.5°C and support the most vulnerable, as well as deal with the devastating climate impacts....more
By Deepak Arora
 CHANDIGARH: In this modern world, different sports have been undergoing transformation. Cricket test matches have moved to more popular T-20 format. Tennis has evolved to Picket ball. And so on. Now the golf has also evolved to Pitch and Putt. It may be mentioned that the first-ever Pitch & Putt golf tournament was recently held at Panchkula. The tournament named as the Panchkula Golf Club Par3 Masters was a huge success amongst the 178 enthusiastic golfers....more
 GURUGRAM: The 2024 LIV Golf Hong Kong winner, Abraham Ancer, and the reigning Asian Tour Order of Merit champion, John Catlin, are among the latest stars to confirm their participation for International Series India. The US$2 million tournament is set to take place at DLF Golf and Country Club later this month. Ancer and Catlin will join defending U.S. Open champion and captain of LIV Golf’s Crushers GC, Bryson DeChambeau, plus local hero Anirban Lahiri, and The International Series Rankings winner Joaquin Niemann for the highly anticipated tournament taking place from January 30 to February 2 in Gurugram....more
PARIS: One of the most awaited design show, Maison&Objet opens in the City of Lights on January 16. The five-day show would bring together the future of design: groundbreaking innovations, rising talents, and bold creative visions. With the theme of Sur/Reality, Maison&Objet and Peclers Paris shall take you on a journey through a reimagined surrealism....more
WASHINGTON DC: Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom has said the Biden administration's sanctions against it were "unlawful" and being seen as a form of unfair competition from unfriendly countries. “Sanctions targeting Rosatom's management are regarded as unfounded and unlawful. Today, Rosatom is a global leader in the export of nuclear energy technologies, so the sanctions are seen as a form of unfair competition from unfriendly states," it said....more
PARIS: The planet has moved a major step closer to warming more than 1.5C, new data shows, despite world leaders vowing a decade ago they would try to avoid this. The European Copernicus climate service, one of the main global data providers, said on Friday that 2024 was the first calendar year to pass the symbolic threshold, as well as the world's hottest on record....more
SRINAGAR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Z-Morh tunnel, also known as the Sonamarg tunnel, in Jammu and Kashmir. Omar Abdullah, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir stood on PM Modi's left as he cut the red ribbon and inaugurated the Sonamarg tunnel. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha were also present at the inauguration....more
TEL AVIV: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a delegation of senior officials to Qatar for negotiations on a hostage release and Gaza ceasefire deal, his office said Saturday. Netanyahu held a meeting in Jerusalem with US President-elect Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, a representative of current US President Joe Biden and senior Israeli officials, the prime minister's office said in a statement....more
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden spoke with Pope Francis on Saturday and awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, the nation's highest civilian honor, the White House said. It was the first time during his four years in office that Biden awarded the medal "with distinction", it said. Biden, 82, leaves office on January 20. To oversee the federal response to the fires in California, he canceled a trip to Rome this week, where he was due to meet Francis in person....more
BEIJING: In a pioneering study published in the journal Nature, Chinese scientists have identified a naturally produced bile, lithocholic acid (LCA), which has anti-ageing effects similar to those achieved through calorie restriction. LCA, produced by the liver, was found to enhance muscle regeneration, improve grip strength, and increase running capacity in genetically modified mice with human tissues....more
TORONTO: Researchers at the University of Toronto have made a groundbreaking discovery, showing that "negative time" is not just a theoretical concept but a tangible phenomenon. Scientists at the institution showed through an innovative quantum experiment that light appears to emerge from a material before entering, overturning several decades of prevailing ideas about the nature of time. While much of the attention surrounding the results is international in scope, scientific communities have largely raised an eyebrow over the matter....more |
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