Not the time for Gotabaya Rajapaksa to return, says Sri Lanka President: Report

Sri Lanka’s new president Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Sunday it was not the right time for former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to return to the country as it could inflame political tensions, the Wall Street Journal reported. “I don’t believe it’s the time for him to return,” Wickremesinghe said in an interview with the Journal. “I have no indication of him returning soon.” Days later, Wickremesinghe won a vote in parliament to become the new president.

U.P. CM urged to rename places in Ayodhya after prominent seers

Lucknow: The contribution of late Paramhans Ramchandra Das in the Ram temple movement could not be expressed in words, said chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday, while paying tributes to the saint on his 19th death anniversary in Ayodhya. On the occasion, saints of Ayodhya urged the chief minister to develop and rename places in Ayodhya after prominent seers who had been part of the Ram temple movement.

AlphaFold: AI tool predicts structures for nearly all-known proteins

An artificial intelligence tool developed by a Google sister company has predicted and published the structures of nearly all proteins, the building blocks of life, unlocking what may be one of the most influential databases for biological research. It is easy to identify a protein by its constituent amino acid, but this is just one-dimensional information. What is important to understand is how these amino acids come together and “fold” to create a protein structure.

Debris from Chinese rocket falls back to Earth week after launch | Video

Debris from China’s Long March-5B rocket, which was launched last week, fell back into the sea in the Philippines on Sunday, news agencies reported quoting the Chinese government. “Vast majority of wreckage burned up upon re-entering the atmosphere,” officials were quoted as saying by AP. Several users in Malaysia reported sightings of the rocket debris on social media. One such video was re-shared by Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Centre for Astrophysics, US.

Fidel Ramos, former Philippine president who overthrew dictatorship, dies

Former Philippine president Fidel Valdez Ramos, a US-trained ex-general who saw action in the Korean and Vietnam wars and played a key role in a 1986 pro-democracy uprising that ousted a dictator, died on Sunday. The cause of his death was not immediately clear, but one of his longtime companions, Norman Legazpi, told Associated Press that Ramos had been hospitalised intermittently for heart disease in recent years, suffering from dementia.