Samim Biswas

The war in Sudan has uprooted more than 1.2 million people within the country and sent about 400,000 fleeing into neighbouring countries, inflicting heavy damage on the capital. Shelling and heavy clashes hit areas of Sudan's capital on…

British Airways has been fined $1.1m (£878,000) by the US government over claims it failed to pay refunds for cancelled flights during the pandemic. The US Department of Transportation said the airline had not provided "timely refunds to…

Oil-producing countries have agreed to continued cuts in production in a bid to shore up flagging prices. Saudi Arabia said it would make cuts of a million barrels per day (bpd) in July and Opec+ said targets would drop by a further 1.4…

Following the easing of pandemic restrictions in the US, cases of brain abscess in children under 18 have risen to new heights, according to a pair of CDC reports. December 2022 saw a peak of 102 cases across the country. Since then, cases…

In Afghanistan, girls are banned from education beyond sixth grade, including university, and women are barred from most jobs and public spaces. Nearly 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalised in two separate attacks at their primary…

A new exoplanet with mass 13 times that of Jupiter has been discovered by an international team of experts led by an Indian scientist. Prof Abhijit Chakraborty of the Ahmedabad-based Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), under the Department…

The ozone layer is not healing as quickly as expected, leading to higher levels of surface ultraviolet (UV) radiation in recent years, according to a study. Despite projections that the ozone layer would fully recover by mid-century,…