New Delhi: Nobel laureate and Danish Professor Morten Meldal called on Union Minister of State Jitendra Singh and discussed bilateral cooperation in pharmaceuticals and promoting chemistry studies among schoolchildren, the Ministry of Science and Technology said in a press release on Friday.Professor Meldal was jointly awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the groundbreaking development

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar with Australian High
Commissioner Philip Green

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Australian High
Commissioner to India Philip Green on Friday and discussed the bilateral
partnership between the two countries.

The EAM will also be heading to Perth for the Indian Ocean Conference 2024
later this year.

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Beijing: Some global carmakers are applying weaker human rights and responsible sourcing standards to their joint ventures in China owing to pressure from the Chinese government, as reported by Voice of America (VOA), citing a report.The lenient standards increase the risk of exposing supply chains to forced labour from China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region, where over 1 million Uyghurs and other

Taipei: Taiwan’s envoy to the United Kingdom Yao Chin-hsiang has urged the United Kingdom and other Western allies to help deter Chinese aggression against Taiwan, Taiwan News reported.Yao Chin-hsiang made the remarks during a Council on Geostrategy public panel event on January 30. He said that the UK should continue to express concern regarding peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, oppose

Baluchistan: Despite huge protests by people in Baluchistan against torture and atrocities, the provincial administration in Pakistan has refused to hand over the bodies of 14 people to their families, the Baluchistan Post reported.The bodies of 14 people have been kept in the civil hospital of Quetta, but the authorities are not handing over the bodies to their families.The report stated that

Taipei: A few weeks after the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won an unprecedented third term in office, Taiwan’s legislature elected Han Kuo-yu, a politician from the China-friendly opposition Kuomintang (KMT) as its new speaker on Thursday, Voice of America reported.According to the report, the victory could lead to legislative gridlock and potentially create an opening for Beijing to