Agencies

Tabla maestro and five-time Grammy Award winner Zakir Hussain passed away at a hospital in San Francisco, his family said. Hussain 73, was hospitalised and subsequently succumbed to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

A 26-year-old former OpenAI researcher, Suchir Balaji, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment in recent weeks, CNBC has confirmed.

ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump's presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos' inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.

Gukesh Dommaraju, 18, became the youngest chess world champion when he unseated China's Ding Liren at the FIDE World Chess Championship in Singapore Thursday. The Indian prodigy broke a record set by Russia's Garry Kasparov, who was 22 when he first won the title in 1985.

Telugu film star Allu Arjun walked out of the Chanchalguda prison in Hyderabad Saturday morning at around 6:40 am, a day after he was granted interim bail for four weeks by the Telangana High Court in connection with a stampede at the premier of his movie, Pushpa 2, earlier this month.  

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook a large area of Northern California on Thursday, knocking items off grocery store shelves, sending children scrambling under desks and prompting a brief tsunami warning for 5.3 million people along the U.S. West Coast.

South Korea’s main opposition party on Wednesday urged President Yoon Suk Yeol to resign immediately or face impeachment, hours after Yoon ended short-lived martial law that prompted troops to encircle parliament before lawmakers voted to lift it.

The decision comes as leaders and workers of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) continue their march to the city, demanding the release of the ex-premier and protesting alleged election rigging and perceived threats to judicial independence.

JHANSI, Nov 16: At least 10 newborn babies were killed, 16 were injured, and 37 others were rescued after a fire broke out in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Maharani Laxmibai Medical College in Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi on Friday night, police said.

DHAKA, Nov 15: Bangladesh’s top legal official has proposed to remove the words “secularism” and “socialism” from the Constitution apart from a provision prescribing capital punishment for regime change through extra-constitutional means.