Man shot outside Chicago Airport
Chicago, March 12: A man was shot outside of a Chicago O’Hare International Airport terminal early Wednesday following an altercation among multiple people, police said. The 25-year-old suffered two gunshot wounds to the lower body, a Chicago Police Department news release said. He was taken to a hospital, where he was listed in stable condition. Another person was being interviewed, police said. The shooting happened on a street outside of Terminal 2, the news release said. Local television reports showed what appeared to be a shattered window near the baggage claim area. Airlines that use Terminal 2 include JetBlue, Air Canada and Alaska Airlines. (AP)
Vance likely to travel to India
New York, March 12: US Vice President J D Vance is likely to travel to India later this month, according to a media report. “Vance will travel to India later this month alongside Second Lady Usha Vance,” a report in Politico said, citing three sources familiar with the plans. “It marks Vance’s second foreign trip as vice president after making his world stage debut in France and Germany last month,” the report said.\ Usha Vance’s parents Krish Chilukuri and Lakshmi Chilukuri emigrated from India to the US in the late 1970s. The visit to India will be Usha Vance’s “first time visiting her ancestral country as second lady.” Usha and JD met while attending Yale Law School. (PTI)
NASA’s space telescope blasts off to map entire sky
Vandenberg Space Force Base, March 12: NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before – a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the beginning of time. SpaceX launched the Spherex observatory from California, putting it on course to fly over Earth’s poles. Tagging along were four suitcase-size satellites to study the sun. Spherex popped off the rocket’s upper stage first, drifting into the blackness of space with a blue Earth in the background. The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe expanded so fast in its first moments. Closer to home in our own Milky Way galaxy, Spherex will hunt for water and other ingredients of life in the icy clouds between stars where new solar systems emerge. (AP)
Doctors in Sri Lanka on strike to support rape victim colleague
Colombo, March 12: Doctors in Sri Lanka on Wednesday launched a 24-hour strike following the rape of a female doctor in Anuradhapura in the North Central province. The 32-year-old doctor was sexually abused on Monday night while she was returning to her accommodation after the night shift. Someone who walked behind her pointed a knife at her and raped her, the police said. The Government Medical Officer’s Association (GMOA), the doctors’ trade union, announced a 24-hour strike, calling for the suspect’s arrest. The suspect was arrested on Wednesday and has been identified as a military deserter who had been freed from jail three days ago for a drug offence. (PTI)
