U.S., Japanese pair win Nobel Medicine Prize
Two immunologists, James Allison of the U.S. and Tasuku Honjo of Japan, won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for research that has revolutionised the treatment of cancer, the jury said on Monday. The pair were honoured "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation," the Nobel Assembly said.
Remembering a landmine blast
TDP workers break coconuts at Alipiri, the foot of Tirumala hills, as part of thanksgiving.
On this day in 2003, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu survived an attempt on his life when suspected People's War naxalites exploded improvised claymore mines targeting his motorcade on the Tirumala ghat road.
TDP workers broke coconuts on Monday at Alipiri, the foot of Tirumala hills as part of thanksgiving prayer to Lord Venkateswara for saving their leader's life.
PETA India protest
PETA members wearing animal masks request the government to strengthen animal protection laws, at Connaught Place, in New Delhi on Monday.
Activists of animal welfare group PETA India staged a demonstration in New Delhi seeking strong laws for protecting animals.
Burials begin in Indonesia as rescue need becomes desperate
Indonesian rescue team inspect the damage of Roa-Roa Hotel following a massive earthquake and tsunami in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
A mass burial of earthquake and tsunami victims began in a hard-hit city on Monday as the need for heavy equipment to dig for survivors of the disaster that struck a central Indonesian island grows increasingly desperate. The toll of more than 800 dead is largely from the city of Palu and is expected to rise as areas cut off by the damage are reached. The magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck at dusk on September 26 and spawned a tsunami said to have been as high as 6 metres (20 feet) in places.
Uzbekistan President in Delhi
Shavkat Mirziyoyev President of the Republic of Uzbekistan with his wife Ziroat Mirziyoyeva, President Ram nath Kovind and Prime minister Narendra Modi during ceremonial reception at Rashtrapati Bhawan.
Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev arrived in New Delhi on Sunday, and will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi for bilateral talks on Monday.
Officials said more than 30 documents and agreements are expected to be signed during the visit, including trade agreements, media and educational partnerships, and MoUs linking Andijan-Gujarat states, Samarkand-Agra and Bukhara-Hyderabad.
China National Day
Pro-China supporters wave China and Hong Kong national flags after a flag-raising ceremony in celebration of China's National Day in Hong Kong, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018.
October 1 is China's National Day. China, together with Hong Kong and Macau, is celebrating its 69th anniversary with a variety of government-organised festivities.
Macedonia referendum
R Protesters shout out slogans about boycotting the referendum on changing the country's name that would open the way for it to join NATO and the European Union in Skopje, Macedonia September 30, 2018.
The people of Macedonia voted in a referendum on Sunday on whether to change its name to ‘Republic of North Macedonia’, a move that would resolve a decades-old dispute with Greece which had blocked its membership bids for the European Union and NATO.
