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New Delhi: In a first, a French Air Force A330 Phenix aerial refuelling tanker refuelled the Sukhoi SU-30s of the Indian Air Force mid-air ahead of their touchdown at the Royal Australian Air Force’s base in Darwin for a three-week multi-national exercise which begins Friday. This is the first time that France has refuelled Indian […]
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Paris: French researchers have documented the first case of a dog with confirmed monkeypox virus infection that might have been acquired through human transmission. Published in medical journal The Lancet, a team from the Sorbonne University in Paris recorded the case of monekypox virus in two men who have sex with men: an HIV-positive Latino man, […]
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Paris: Upbeat with India being recognized as the “country of the year” at Europe’s biggest start-up conference – Vivatech 2020, an Indian diplomat in France said that India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Rupay cards will soon be accepted in France. In an exclusive interview with ANI, Jawed Ashraf, Indian Ambassador in France, said, “India […]
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Paris: Since February this year, several cases of needle attacks have been reported in nightclubs, concerts and music festivals across France, according to media reports. French television BFMTV has reported 319 such cases in nightclubs alone. Police complaints have been filed by 275 victims, reports Xinhua news agency. Men and women can equally fall victim […]
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I started university in the fall of 2000 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I was “pre-med”, which means I wanted to attend medical school after I received my bachelor’s degree. Students who are “pre-med” often study subjects such as biology and chemistry. I was no different. Except for one problem. I was terrible […]
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New Delhi: Bollywood actor Janhvi Kapoor on Friday shared a stunning string of pictures from her France trip on social media. The ‘Roohi’ actor, who is enjoying her vacation in France, keeps her fans updated by sharing trip pictures. The 25-year-old actor made her debut in Bollywood in 2018 with Shashank Khaitan’s film Dhadak. Since […]
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Paris: Five per cent of the 16-year olds, or about 35,000 individuals, in France are illiterate, a report revealed. On Friday, French daily Le Figaro quoted the report published by the French General Inspection of Education (IGEN) as saying that one young person out of 10 would experience “serious difficulties in reading”, reports Xinhua news […]
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New Delhi: Google will finally bring its Pixel 6a smartphone to India, after a gap of nearly two years. Google was not able to sell Pixel in India due to its ‘Soli Radar chip’ on the front, which utilised the 60GHz frequency band banned for commercial use in India. Speaking to Android Central, the company […]
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New Delhi: India and France agreed to work in close proximity in line with the Make in India initiatives to address challenges related to space issues, besides having deeper ties in climate change and defence-related matters. Building on a great tradition of over 60 years of technical and scientific space cooperation, and in order to […]
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New Delhi: After concluding his three-day, three-nation tour of European countries – Germany, Denmark and France, Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in New Delhi on Thursday. As per government sources, he will immediately attend office and hold seven-eight meetings during the day and also chair an important review meeting for the preparedness for the monsoon […]
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The problem of veto has been a bleeding sore for the UN, effectively dashing hopes and expectations of using the United Nations to maintain a truly collective security
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Paris: As France votes today for the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron faces stiff competition from far-right leader Marine Le Pen. Macron enjoyed solid support in the beginning as he tried to achieve a diplomatic solution to the situation in Ukraine and led talks on economic sanctions against Russia, reported NHK World. However, his rival Le […]
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All the turmoil summed up in layman’s terms, is due to Russia finding Ukraine’s aspirations of becoming a full member of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), threatening to its borders.
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The East-West face-off over Ukraine has reached dangerous levels following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s provocative move to recognise the independence of the two restive regions — Donetsk and Luhansk — in Eastern Ukraine and a strong response from the western nations in the form of sanctions. This is by far the most intense confrontation since […]
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Potchefstroom: The Indian men’s hockey team will focus on “gaining momentum” for a busy year ahead when they play France in the opening match of the FIH Pro League here on Tuesday. After a stellar 2021, when the men’s hockey team won the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games bronze medal after more than four decades, the […]
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Now, the law has been changed in favour of reducing the environmental footprint of digital devices.
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The agency said that 3,881 Covid-19 patients were being treated in intensive care, accounting for over 70 per cent of the French health system's current capacity, Xinhua news agency reported.
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London: The French anti-trust watchdog has fined Google $170 million and Facebook $68 million for pushing tracking cookies on users and non-compliance with French legislation. Following investigations, the Commission Nationale de I’informatique et Des Liberte (CNIL) noted that the websites facebook.com, google.fr and youtube.com do not make refusing cookies as easy as to accept them. […]
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The strain is also known as the 'IHU' variant because it was first identified by academics at the IHU Mediterranee Infection institute in Marseille, France, reports Xinhua news agency.
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Paris: French researchers have detected a new Covid variant, probably of Cameroonian origin, and have temporarily named it as ‘IHU’. The new variant from the lineage named B.1.640.2 is believed to have infected 12 people in the country, according to a yet-to-be peer-reviewed study supported by the French Government. It has 46 mutations and 37 […]
