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South Korea spy agency: North Korea hackers targeted vaccine tech

7:30 pm February 16, 2021

Seoul: North Korean hackers attempted to steal information about coronavirus vaccines and treatments, South Korea’s intelligence service said on Tuesday, but it denied a lawmaker’s claim that vaccine maker Pfizer Inc was targeted. Earlier Tuesday, Ha Tae-keung, a member of parliament’s intelligence committee, told reporters that the National Intelligence Service told him and other lawmakers during a closed-door briefing that North Korea hacked Pfizer to obtain COVID-19 […]

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South Korean sexual slavery survivor wants UN court judgment

3:34 pm February 16, 2021

Seoul: A South Korean woman who was sexually enslaved by Japan’s World War II military called for the leaders of both countries to settle an impasse over the issue by seeking judgment from the International Court of Justice. The 92-year-old woman, Lee Yong-soo, said Tuesday she hopes a ruling by the UN’s highest court handling […]

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Monday’s penumbral lunar eclipse won’t be visible in India

9:43 pm November 29, 2020

Indore: A lunar eclipse will take place on Monday but won’t be visible in India as it would be afternoon here, an official of Jiwaji Observatory in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh said The ‘penumbral lunar eclipse‘ will begin at 12:59:09 PM and continue till 05:25:09 PM on Monday, Rajendra prakash Gupta, superintendent of the observatory, […]

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'Once in a Blue Moon' on October 31 

‘Once in a Blue Moon’ on October 31 

5:38 pm October 28, 2020

By Aditya Vikram Singh/New Delhi: THE ‘Once in a Blue Moon’ story will come to be true once again this Saturday when the world will witness the occurrence of the rare celestial wonder Blue Moon on October 31. Although this is a rare and good tiding for the excited and exalted sky-watchers, there is some […]

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Moon may be rusting along poles, suggest images sent by Chandrayaan-1

11:39 pm September 6, 2020

New Delhi: Images sent by Chandrayaan-1, India’s first lunar mission, suggest that the Moon may be rusting along the poles, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Sunday. Chandrayaan-1 was launched in 2008 “ ISRO’s maiden mission to the Moon has sent images which show that the Moon may be rusting along the poles. “The sign of this finding is […]

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