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Articles by Kartikeya Ramanathan
Chintels Paradiso residents brace for tower demolition
Look past the facade, and you see the crumbling walls, the sagging balconies, and the eerie silence that engulfs the society
Published on Nov 10, 2022 12:23 AM IST
Mexico looks for Indian children who painted at the 1968 Olympics
Only one of the eight participants from India has been traced so far and he died in 1998 after a long illness.
Updated on Aug 20, 2018 11:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
Ghana teacher who taught software using blackboard gifted computers by Indian firm
Richard Appiah Akoto’s school hadn’t had computers since 2011, but that did not stop him from teaching his students how to use basic computer programmes like Microsoft Word.
Updated on Mar 16, 2018 07:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
Straight out of dystopia: Robot that opens doors taking world by storm
Robotics firm Boston Dynamics posted a video of its dog-like SpotMini, which can sense door handles and open doors.
Updated on Feb 14, 2018 07:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
Divided Catalonia gears up for regional election
There are several political parties who will contest the elections, but they more or less fall into two categories — pro-independence and pro-unionist. And neither side gets along with the other.
Updated on Dec 20, 2017 06:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
How is a US president impeached?
The process of impeachment is not as easy as people are led to believe, and removing a sitting US president is even more difficult.
Updated on Dec 03, 2017 08:01 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
Maldives close to free trade agreement with China, India caught unawares
The move comes a little more than a year after the Maldives said it would sign its first FTA with India.
Updated on Dec 01, 2017 08:32 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
Catalonia proposes suspending independence declaration
Catalan president Carles Puigdemont said he had a mandate to declare independence, but proposed waiting “a few weeks” in order to facilitate a dialogue with Spain.
Updated on Oct 10, 2017 11:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
Pak diplomat goofs up at UN, tries to pass off Gaza teen image as Kashmir girl
The photo shown by Pakistan diplomat Maleeha Lodhi at United Nations was taken by award-winning photographer Heidi Levine inside the Gaza strip in 2014, and the girl had been injured in an Israeli air strike.
Updated on Sep 25, 2017 08:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
Shocking the world: Seven times leaders stole the show at the UN
Donald Trump is just the latest world leader to grab headlines at the world body.
Updated on Sep 21, 2017 11:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
More Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since Aug 25 than in the last two decades
The number of Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh since August 25 is also more than the total number of refugees who fled by sea to Europe in 2016.
Updated on Sep 18, 2017 07:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
Sikh volunteers come to aid of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
The Sikh volunteers have set up a daily langar service for 30,000 to 50,000 people, and aim to build shelters for the refugees after the Bangladesh government allots land for the same.
Updated on Sep 15, 2017 09:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
Hurricane Irma: Some Indians in Florida choose to stay as others evacuate
“We received non-mandatory evacuation orders and were told it was our personal choice whether to leave or not, so we decided to stay back,” Usha Venkatachalam told HT.
Published on Sep 10, 2017 08:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
Steve Bannon claims US churches need illegal migrants ‘for their money’
Bannon was responding to prominent Catholic bishops criticising Trump’s decision to roll back DACA.
Updated on Sep 07, 2017 10:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
Utter fail for Breitbart, suggests German footballer is a human trafficker
Breitbart claimed traffickers were smuggling migrants from Morocco into Europe via the Strait of Gibraltar by using jet-skis, but published it with a photo of Lukas Podolski.
Published on Aug 20, 2017 04:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
Third time lucky: Woman escapes terror attack at Barcelona after London, Paris
Julia Monaco, a resident of Melbourne, says her experiences have not deterred her from leading a normal life — if anything, they have made her resolve to see the world even stronger.
Updated on Aug 19, 2017 12:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
Two top aides to Nikki Haley at UN quit their posts
The resignations have come at a time of rising tensions between the US and North Korea.
Updated on Aug 10, 2017 09:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
Trump clashed with Australian PM on refugees, transcript reveals
Turnbull tried to explain that a deal signed by Obama required the US to vet and take only those refugees that it chooses, but Trump claimed the deal would make the US “look bad”.
Updated on Aug 05, 2017 07:18 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
Trump asked Mexico’s Nieto to not publicly trash border wall, transcript reveals
Peña Nieto said it was “completely unacceptable” that Mexico pay for the wall.
Updated on Aug 04, 2017 10:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
Who are Shehbaz Sharif and Khaqan Abbasi, PLM-N’s replacements for Nawaz Sharif as Pakistan PM
PML-N party is set to name leading businessman-politician Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as the interim premier following Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification, with Shehbaz Sharif expected to take over after he is elected to the National Assembly.
Updated on Jul 29, 2017 08:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan and Rezaul H Laskar
US psychiatry group suspends 1973 rule, members can comment on Trump’s mental state
The American Psychoanalytic Association stated that its members should not feel bound by a longstanding rule against commenting publicly on the mental state of public figures.
Updated on Jul 26, 2017 06:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
Trump admin’s first terror report: IS ‘most potent threat to global security’
The report noted that IS has specifically threatened India in propaganda messages, adding that New Delhi has raised concern over the internet being used to “recruit and radicalise, and foment inter-religious tensions”.
Updated on Jul 20, 2017 10:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
British surgeons find 27 contact lenses lodged in woman’s eye
A “blueish mass” in one eye that the doctors had taken for a cataract was actually a mass of contact lenses stuck in her eye.
Updated on Jul 16, 2017 09:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
Colonisation of Mars not possible by 2030s, admits Nasa
The chief of Nasa’s programme on human exploration of space said that with its current budget, the agency cannot afford the cost of propelling a manned spacecraft to Mars.
Updated on Jul 15, 2017 10:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
California teenager wins lottery twice in a week. Her prize: $655,555
Rosa Dominguez, 19, says she wants to go shopping and buy a new car after winning $655,555.
Updated on Jul 11, 2017 11:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
Man accidentally shoots himself in penis, could face jail time
The Jacksonville, Florida native could face jail time for possession of a firearm because he is a convicted felon.
Updated on Jul 06, 2017 06:24 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
Canadian sniper shatters world record, kills IS militant from 3,540 metres
The previous world record was held by British sniper Craig Harrison, who shot a Taliban gunner from a distance of 2,475 metres in 2009.
Updated on Jun 23, 2017 04:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
New online game lets you be as ‘naughty’ as Theresa May, on a wheat field
May claimed the “naughtiest thing” she ever did was running through fields of wheat, prompting web developer Oli Cannings and his friend Steve Whittingham to created a game in which the user can do the same.
Updated on Jun 22, 2017 02:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
UK election: Who are DUP and why have they become key to forming government?
Theresa May has sought support from Northern Ireland-based DUP — the fifth-largest party with 10 seats — in order to bring the Conservative Party back to power.
Updated on Jun 10, 2017 03:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
Faith vs science: Activists block Serbia from shifting Tesla’s remains to church from museum
Sixty years on, Tesla’s final resting place at the Nikola Tesla Museum has become a bone of contention.
Updated on Jun 07, 2017 03:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Kartikeya Ramanathan
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