John Ratcliffe is Trump's pick to head CIA

Yashwant Raj | November 13, 2024 9:59 AM

Washington, Nov 13 (IANS) US President-elect Donald Trump has named John Ratcliffe, a former congressman and Director of National Intelligence, as his Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, contrary to feverish speculation that the job was going to Kash Patel, an Indian-American.

Harris will continue the fight: Biden

IANS | November 7, 2024 11:47 AM

New York, Nov 7 (IANS) President Joe Biden has declared that Vice President Kamala Harris will “continue the fight” and be a “leader for generations” even though she lost the election to succeed him.

The Indian physicist who discovered how stars live and die while on a ship voyage

Vikas Datta | October 19, 2024 11:44 AM

New Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) It was a cosmic conundrum that had left the world's foremost physicist puzzled, while a leading astronomer's efforts to help him complicated matters further, but this teenage Indian student, using just pen and paper, devised a solution to the issue while sailing to the UK in 1930 to take up a scholarship to study physics.

President Murmu meets Malawi counterpart, holds delegation-level talks

IANS | October 18, 2024 10:14 PM

Lilongwe, Oct 18 (IANS) President Droupadi Murmu on Friday met her Malawi counterpart Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera on the second day of her visit to the east African country, and held productive discussions on a wide range of issues to further deepen the India-Malawi relationship, a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said.