Day: January 26, 2020

Trump denies calling US war dead 'losers,' 'suckers'

Trump lawyers argue Democrats just want to overturn election

7:29 pm January 26, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump’s lawyers plunged into his impeachment trial defense Saturday by accusing Democrats of striving to overturn the 2016 election, arguing that investigations of Trump’s dealings with Ukraine have not been a fact-finding mission but a politically motivated effort to drive him from the White House. They’re here to perpetrate the most massive […]

Syria regime forces on edge of key rebel-held town: monitor

7:24 pm January 26, 2020

Beirut: Syrian regime forces have reached the outskirts of a key city on the edge of the country’s last rebel-held stronghold, a monitor and a pro-government newspaper said Sunday. The mainly deserted city of Maaret al-Numan is a strategic prize lying on the M5 linking Damascus to Syria’s second city Aleppo, a main highway coveted […]

German military resumes training troops in northern Iraq

7:21 pm January 26, 2020

Berlin: The German military resumed training Iraqi troops in the country’s Kurdish north on Sunday, about three weeks after it was suspended following the US killing of a top Iranian general in Baghdad. The military said the commander of the international operation fighting the Islamic State group lifted the suspension. Germany resumed training in Irbil […]

IIT-M researchers working on effective drugs against HIV/AIDS

New compound activates hiding HIV, may make drug treatment more effective: Study

7:09 pm January 26, 2020

Washington: Researchers have found a novel compound that can trigger latent HIV residing in mice to come out of hiding, a major breakthrough in treating the infection since current drug treatment fails to completely cure the disease when some of the viruses become dormant. To combat HIV, which has infected nearly 38 million people around […]

Babri demolition case: L K Advani deposes via video link, says no hand in conspiracy

Republic Day: L K Advani hoists flag at residence

4:01 pm January 26, 2020

New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani on Sunday unfurled the tricolour at his Prithviraj Road residence here and extended good wishes to the people on the occasion of Republic Day. The nation celebrated the 71st Republic Day with a grand military parade and exhibition of its history, cultural diversity and strategic weaponry at […]