Kremlin slams ‘extremely scurrilous’ US hacking blame
Tokyo: The Kremlin on Friday slammed Washington for pointing the finger at President Vladimir Putin over cyber attacks targeting the US election, after Barack Obama pledged to retaliate against Russian hacking.
china effects ‘odd-even’ to fight heavy smog
Beijing: Bracing for heavy smog, Beijing city will implement the road rationing scheme “odd-even” from Friday night and suspend schools bracing for heavy smog after the Chinese capital issued its first red alert for air pollution this year.
China drills glaciers for climate research
Beijing: Chinese scientists have drilled into a glacier in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to collect nearly 400-metre ice samples for research into climate change. Under the project led by Yao Tandong, an academician with the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, it took the team 40 days to collect the ice samples from the top of the Dund Glacier.
101-yr-old man guilty of child sex offences
london: A 101-year-old man, thought to be the oldest person convicted in British legal history, was on Friday found guilty of historical child sex offences. Jurors found Ralph Clarke from Erdington, Birmingham, guilty of 21 counts of abusing two girls in the 1970s and 80s. He admitted nine charges relating to a young boy part-way through his trial at Birmingham Crown Court.
Rise in no. of Indians granted visas to UK
london: The number of Indians granted visa to study at UK universities has registered a 6 per cent increase for the first time since 2009. According to latest UK government statistics, between July and September this year, 8,692 student visas — known as Tier 4 visas — were granted to Indian applicants, compared with 8,224 issued during the same period in 2015.
Beijing to have 1st maglev train line
Beijing: China’s capital Beijing city will have its first medium-low speed maglev line from next year in addition to the extensive metro network. The train, named “linglong” and developed domestically by CRRC Tangshan Co. ltd, will run on Beijing’s line S1, connecting the city’s western district of Mentougou to the Pingguoyuan subway station in Shijingshan district.
Trains halted for 3rd day in UK rail strike
london: Trains on key commuter routes in southern England were cancelled for a third day today due to a bitter dispute affecting hundreds of thousands of passengers.