New York: Thousands of people bid farewell to 2018 and welcomed 2019 amid rain at the emblematic Times Square in New York, accompanied by a colourful cloud of confetti and the drop of the iconic crystal ball. The ball, which is more than three and a half meters in diameter,[Read More…]
Rio de Janeiro: Far-right congressman Jair Bolsonaro will be sworn in as Brazil’s new President on Tuesday, the media reported. A former army Captain, the 63-year-old Bolsonaro won the presidential election by a wide margin against Fernando Haddad of the left-wing Workers’ Party on October 28, 2018, the BBC reported.[Read More…]
With the suddenness of revelation, withdrawal from Syria and “drawdown” from Afghanistan have been announced by Donald Trump. In the past, such announcements were followed up with a tidy pattern: Two steps forward, one step back. But this time debate and hesitation have been foreclosed. Witness the way Defence Secretary[Read More…]
Los Angeles, Actress Jennifer Lawrence hilariously recalls an altercation after getting high at Ellen DeGeneres’ party. SiriusXM’s “Howard Stern Show” recently shared a throwback clip from the Red Sparrow actress’ Feb. 28 appearance on the show, showing her talking about getting into a physical altercation at a birthday party. “I[Read More…]
London, Smugglers and migrants are using Facebook to buy boats for crossing the Channel from the French port city of Calais to come to Britain, The Telegraph reported. The Facebook “Marketplace” has been favoured by groups of Iranians and Iraqis intent on organising their own Channel crossings, because they can[Read More…]
Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin exchanged New Year greetings on Monday. In his congratulatory message to Putin, Xi said that the year 2018 has a special significance in China-Russia relations, and both countries have smoothly completed their respective important domestic political agendas and opened a[Read More…]
Dhaka, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to return for a new term in office as her party, Awami League (AL), has registered a landslide victory, Bangladesh’s Election Commission said on Monday. Hasina would become Prime Minister for an unprecedented fourth term after AL secured win in 259 constituencies[Read More…]
New York, Revellers attending New Year’s eve celebration on Times Square are advised to wear waterproof shoes and raincoat to keep dry and warm as there is a chance of rain in New York city when the calendar year changes at midnight on Monday. According to local weather forecast, Monday[Read More…]
Jerusalem, A total of 66 Israeli technology companies signed “exit” deals worth 4.9 billion US dollars in 2018, said a report published by accounting and consulting firm PwC-Israel. The report shows a decrease of about 34 percent in the total value, compared with 7.4 billion dollars in 70 deals in[Read More…]
Search engine giant Google is all set to welcome 2019 with the New Year’s Eve doodle today. The doodle shows two purple elephants tossing tye balloons and devouring popcorn, the baby elephants perched on top of the Google homepage are seen playfully arranging for party decor. One of the elephants[Read More…]
Bangladesh cricket captain Mashrafe Mortaza who contested the 11th parliamentary elections, fetched 34 times more votes as a ruling Awami League candidate for the Narail-2 seat than his nearest rival the Jatiya Oikya Front alliance’s Fariduzzaman Farhad. Mortaza became first active cricketer to become an MP. The pacer, known as the ‘Narail[Read More…]
Voters from across Bangladesh exercised their franchise from 8am to 4pm on Sunday, to elect the next government. Early results show that Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is heading for a landslide victory in Sunday’s general election. Hasina raced into a clear lead, quickly securing 19 seats against zero for the[Read More…]
London, The British divers which helped rescue a young Thai soccer team from a flooded cave this year have been awarded medals by Queen Elizabeth II in her 2019 New Year’s honours list. Richard Stanton and Johnathan Volanthen, the first divers to reach the 12 boys and their coach after[Read More…]
New York, An Indian-American teenager has won the inaugural “Digital Transformation Hackathon” at Cornell University for designing a device to detect the actual pain level of a patient during a diagnosis. The device designed by 17-year-old Mahum Siddiqi and her team uses neurological activity occurring in one’s brain to help[Read More…]
Los Angeles, Actress Gabrielle Union has taken on online trolls telling her how to dress, asking for “all the age appropriate fashion advise I didnt know I needed in my life”. Union, 46, shared a photo of herself on Instagram Friday, lounging on a sofa wearing a long black dress[Read More…]
Manila, A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the Davao Oriental province in the Philippine island of Mindanao on Saturday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. No damage has been reported by the Philippine government yet. The institute said the quake hit at 11.39 a.m. (Philippines time) at[Read More…]
San Francisco, To show the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it is reigning in Elon Musk from sending out irresponsible tweets, the electric car company Tesla has named Oracle heavyweight Larry Ellison and top-ranked HR executive Kathleen Wilson-Thompson to its board. A long-time Musk friend, Ellison is Co-founder[Read More…]
San Francisco, Saying goodbye to one of his toughest years filled with several controversies, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he is “proud” of the progress in 2018 and the company has now established multi-year plans to overhaul its systems and is executing those roadmaps. In a year-end note on Friday,[Read More…]
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Kiev, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron have urged Russia to release the Ukrainian sailors who were detained during tensions in the Sea of Azov, the media reported. In their joint statement, Merkel and Macron on Friday said that the sailors should be released by the end[Read More…]
Cairo, An explosion on Friday targeting a bus carrying Vietnamese tourists on an excursion to the Giza pyramids left four people dead and 10 others wounded, Egyptian authorities said. Three of the tourists were killed along with the tour guide, an Egyptian citizen, Attorney General Nabil Ahmed Sadeq said in[Read More…]
New York: An Indian-origin police officer was shot and killed by an unidentified man during a traffic stop in the US state of California, officials said. Officer Ronil Singh, 33, had been working with the Newman Police Department since July 2011. He was shot and killed during a traffic stop[Read More…]
By Gaurav Sharma Beijing: China has successfully tested the sophisticated S-400 air defence system bought from Russia, a missile for which India struck a deal with Kremlin risking the US sanctions. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) tested the system last month, successfully shooting down a “simulated ballistic target”. China had[Read More…]
Washington, US President Donald Trump on Wednesday confirmed his decision to withdraw US troops from Syria and said that his country cannot be the world’s policeman in a surprise visit to troops deployed in Iraq. Trump made his remarks to reporters after arriving with first lady Melania Trump about 7:16[Read More…]
Bagota, At least seven people were killed and 12 injured on Wednesday when their bus plunged 150 meters into a ravine, Colombia’s Transit Police said. The driver, who was among the dead, reportedly lost control of the wheel and veered off the road in the town of San Mateo, in[Read More…]
