Vishal Garg: 'Your employment here is terminated, effective immediately'

The coronavirus pandemic in India should not be about party politics, but acknowledging and realising the depth and magnitude of the problem Jaiveer Shergill from the opposition Congress party has said. Speaking to BBC World News he said the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have adopted a policy of “credit is mine, crisis is yours”….

A commercial laser cutter has been transformed from a 2D machine to a 3D all-in-one assembler capable of creating devices which can fly straight off the factory line. LaserFactory is designed to create functional devices and robots, Martin Nisser, PhD student at MIT CSAIL said. “We wanted to be able to fabricate something which required…

Thirty years ago, the BBC launched its first international television channel. Originally called World Service Television, the channel is now known as BBC World News and reaches 112 million people a week. Jamie Angus, controller of BBC News output and commissioning told BBC World News that globally television audiences were rising because there was a…

A sharp rise in Covid Delta variant cases in Israel shows the need for caution when ending restrictions, says Dr Asher Salmon, deputy director general of the country’s Ministry of Health. Israel had led the way with its vaccine programme, and was able to lift many restrictions, but there is now a surge in new…

Ahead of this week’s elections many opposition candidates have been prevented from running.

It is a 100 days before the 2021 Olympics begins in Tokyo and athletes all over the world are back in training. Marathon runner Stephanie Davis, who will be competing in the Games for the first time, told BBC World News that she was really grateful that the Olympics was going ahead after it was…