Mehr Gill

The families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have reached a historic settlement with Remington, the gun-marker whose rifle was used by the gunman. A look at the lawsuit, and gun control in the United States.

The temple was destroyed by Pakistani forces during their Operation Searchlight in March 1971, the brutal crackdown that led to the genocide and the Bangladesh War of Liberation.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has suspended talks with the US regarding a $23 billion deal that involves the purchase of 50 F-35 fighter jets, 18 armed drones and missiles. Here's why

Saudi Arabia has banned the Tablighi and Da’wah group, also known as Al Ahbab, calling it a 'danger to society'. A look at the roots of this group, which is active in more than 150 countries and is the largest Islamic missionary movement.

The Bill comes in response to a Australian High Court judgment that media companies could be held liable for comments that were left by third parties on their social media pages.

A procedure in which electrodes are implanted in the brain, now used to treat for depression.

The United States' Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Friday authorised vaccine booster shots for certain Americans. Countries such as Israel, Germany and France have already laid out plans to roll out the administration of booster shots.

Greece wildfires: The worry is exacerbated especially because these wildfires seem to be coming closer to civilisation, damaging buildings and forcing mass evacuations.

The earlier a baby is born from the average gestation period of 40 weeks, the greater are the risks of death or developing serious disability.

Before the infrared James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launches, NASA has an important decision to make — whether to rename the $8.8-billion telescope. 

The decision to inscribe the Ramappa temple was taken at the 44th session of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO held on Sunday in China.

Because of the ubiquity of search engines and easy access to archived news stories, there has been a debate in the Western media over naming suspects in cases where trials are ongoing.

The concept of "flying saucers" has captured the American imagination since the 1940s and 1950s. This has been connected to their ideas about life on the Moon, canals on the Red planet and Martian civilisations, notes an article published by the Library of Congress.

Students for Fair Admissions have called Harvard's racial classifications and preferences in college admissions "unconstitutional”, while Asian American groups filed complaints regarding Yale's conduct towards Asian Americans.

New Shephard has been named after astronaut Alan Shephard - the first American to go to space - and offers flights to space over 100 km above the Earth and accommodation for payloads.

These are part of a group named Brood X, based on their life cycles and periodic appearances. The cicadas in Brood X number in billions and come out of their underground homes every 17 years.

These missions are part of NASA’s Discovery Program, which began in 1992 to give scientists the chance to launch some missions that use fewer resources and have shorter developmental times.

To counter waning demand, authorities in various countries have come up with methods to incentivise people to get vaccinated to protect themselves from Covid-19. Here are some incentives being offered.

A series of studies has shown how effectively dogs can detect coronavirus in sweat or urine samples of infected individuals. But can they replace conventional RT-PCR tests? Not yet.

As of May 19, over 202 million doses have been administered in the EU and 40 per cent of the adult population has received at least one dose. Further, the EC has secured contracts with six vaccine developers for the delivery of a total of 2.6 billion doses.

With the new recommendations, an unopened thawed vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine can be stored between 2-8 degrees Celsius for up to a month, which means that it can be stored in a regular refrigerator once it has been taken out of the deep freeze.

B.1.617 was first designated as a VUI on April 1 by the UK health authorities who requested India to send samples of the B.1.617 strain to carry out wider studies on it and determine how effective existing vaccines are against it.

Apart from social media platforms, agencies such as the UN have also taken note of hate speech in recent times.

Researchers from IIT Guwahati have developed a technique which can precisely estimate one of the most important battery internal states known as SOC, short for state of charge.