The Maldives Supreme Court on Sunday rejected a petition by outgoing President Abdulla Yameen to annul the September presidential election, clearing the way for transfer of power to joint opposition candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. Mr. Yameen’s claim that the poll was rigged was not substantiated with evidence, the five-member bench …

U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed that the U.S. would pull out of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia, a crucial Cold War-era treaty banning the development, testing and possession of short and medium range ground-launched nuclear missiles with a range of 500-5,000 km. The treaty, signed in 1987, …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Monday attend the fourth edition of the NITI Lecture Series focussed on “leveraging artificial intelligence for inclusive growth”, according to an official statement. The keynote address will be delivered by Jensen Huang, president and co-founder of U.S.-based technology firm NVIDIA Corporation. Source : https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/pm-to-attend-niti-lecture-series-on-ai/article25282186.ece

The Assam government has said it would not allow a proposed rally of 27 Bengali organisations in support of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 that seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. This followed a State-wide shutdown call by a conglomerate of 42 organisations of …

Indians divided over paying homage to the Mahatma on a cremation ground A fortnight after the Indian Embassy in Tehran was forced to cancel a Gandhi Jayanti event on the Indian Community Cremation Ground of the city, the Ambassador has triggered a fresh controversy after he presided over a “tree …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that India would retaliate with double the force if anyone tried to harm its sovereignty. He was speaking at the Red Fort, where, in a first, a Prime Minister unfurled the tricolour to commemorate Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army. “Our military …

Budgetary allocations do not match the demand The State government’s subsidy bill towards agricultural connections is on the rise during the last four years with the demand for connections increasing significantly. It has to foot a subsidy bill of about Rs. 6,030 crore during the current fiscal. As the budgetary …

Six civilians, including a teenager, were killed in a blast caused by ammunition in a house, where three Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militants were killed in a pre-dawn operation in Kulgam on Sunday. “People as usual didn’t follow appeals to refrain from going to the encounter site. They went inside the house …

“Supervised aerobic exercise has large antidepressant treatment effects for patients with major depression.”—Depression and Anxiety Source  : https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/healthline-ritesh-kumar/article25276296.ece

U.S. regulators on Tuesday approved a modernized version of a decades-old antibiotic used to treat a number of infections. Paratek Pharmaceuticals’ Nuzyra was designed to overcome the problem of resistance to tetracycline, an antibiotic widely used until recent years. The company said the Food and Drug Administration approved Nuzyra for …