Brunkow, Ramsdell and Sakaguchi win 2025 Nobel medicine prize

Stockholm, 6/10: Scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance”, the award-giving body said on Monday. This year’s prize “relates to how we keep our immune system under control so we can fight all imaginable microbes and still avoid…

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Leh violence: Supreme Court issues notice to Centre, Ladakh UT over Sonam Wangchuk’s detention

New Delhi, 6/10: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre, Union Territory of Ladakh, Superintendent of Jodhpur Central jail on a plea of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk’s wife Gitanjali Angmo against his detention under the National Security Act. A bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and NV Anjaria sought a response the governments…

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Internet shut down in Cuttack after violence during Durga idol immersion

Cuttack, 5/10: The Odisha government on Sunday imposed a 24-hour suspension of internet and social media services across large parts of Cuttack city following violent clashes between two groups during a Durga Puja idol immersion procession. The state Home Department, in an official notification, said the decision was taken to curb the spread of “provocative…

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India-Pakistan World Cup: Match referee goofs up as Pak wrongly wins toss

Colombo, 5/10:The toss proceedings for Women’s World Cup match between India and Pakistan didn’t go exactly as planned, as the match referee Shandre Fritz made a blunder while announcing the winner of the toss. Fritz declared Pakistan skipper Fatima Sana as the winner instead of Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur. A cue that presenter Mel Jones…

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Eighteen dead as heavy rain triggers massive landslides in Darjeeling; CM visit on October 6

Darjeeling,10/5: At least 18 people, including several children, died and several others injured as incessant heavy rainfall triggered multiple landslides across the Mirik and Darjeeling hills in the northern part of West Bengal on Sunday. According to reports compiled by the NDRF and the district administration, fatalities were reported from several locations – Sarsaly, Jasbirgaon,…

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Israel strikes Gaza as Palestinians pin hopes on Trump’s Gaza plan

Cairo/Gaza, 5/10: Israeli planes and tanks pounded areas across the Gaza Strip overnight and on Sunday, destroying several residential buildings, witnesses said, as Palestinians desperately awaited implementation of a U.S. plan to end the war. U.S. President Donald Trump, who had called for an end to the bombing, said on Saturday on his Truth Social…

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