Nissan Motor Chairman, Carlos Ghosn, has been taken into custody. He has reportedly been arrested for using the company’s money for personal usage. He has been to have breached Japanese financial trading law, according to Yomiuri. Over the past few months, a long internal investigation has been conducted by Nissan. According[Read More…]
The letter is addressed to Einstein’s sister, Maja.
Washington: US President Donald Trump said that he plans to visit American troops in war zones. His remark on Sunday comes after he received widespread criticism for not visiting an American burial ground outside Paris earlier this month and Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day, reports CNN. “Well, I think[Read More…]
Canberra: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison faced criticism following his “smutty” remarks about actress Pamela Anderson, after she asked him to help Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Anderson had urged Scott Morrison to bring Assange to Australia. Rejecting her plea, Morrison said he had “plenty of mates who have asked me[Read More…]
Xichang: China on Monday sent two new satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province. The satellites entered a medium earth orbit more than three hours later and will work with 17 other[Read More…]
Le, Grand K, a cylinder comprising of platinum-iridium, placed in an underground vault in Paris, will no longer be the standard that the scientists will measure their one kg with! On Friday, at the Palace of Versailles, scientists from all around the world voted to what is a major change in[Read More…]
London: UK’s Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday chose a replacement Brexit secretary a day after the previous incumbent quit over the Conservative Party leader’s provisional deal on the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union. Sanctions are coming: Trump goes all Game Of Thrones, warns Iran May brought Stephen Barclay,[Read More…]
Washington: The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, despite the Saudi government’s denials that the de facto ruler was involved, according to a senior US official. The official told CNN on Friday the conclusion was based on a[Read More…]
Zayn Malik, UK’s music sensation has said that he no longer considers himself as a Muslim in an interview with British Vogue. Malik said, “I’m not professed to be a Muslim. I believe whatever people’s religious beliefs are is between them and whoever or whatever they’re practising”. The former member[Read More…]
New Delhi: In 1974, scientists sent humankind’s first, three-minute long interstellar radio message – the Arecibo Message – and 44 years later, Google on Friday celebrated the feat with a Doodle. The Arecibo message is a 1974 interstellar radio message carrying basic information about humanity and Earth sent to globular[Read More…]
London: Negotiators from the United Kingdom and the European Union have formulated a draft Brexit agreement, the office of Prime Minister Theresa May said Tuesday. A special Cabinet meeting has been set for Wednesday to “consider the draft agreement the negotiating teams have reached in Brussels, and to decide on[Read More…]
New York: US President Donald Trump‘s tweet calling Diwali a “holiday observed by Buddhists, Sikhs and Jains” have started a raging twitter storm over his apparent omission of Hindus, the members of the first and largest religion to observe it. However, in another tweet though, he said: “It was my great[Read More…]
You might need a pack of tissues as we did while we came across this heartfelt viral video of mourning dog that has been waiting in the middle of a road for more than 80 days for its owner to return. The state-owned China News Agency reported the dog in[Read More…]
Akihiko Kondo, a 35-year-old Japanese man spent tied ¥2 million on his wedding at a Tokyo Hall. The amount spent might not be a shocker but what grabbed the global attention was his bride. Kondo, who works as a school administrator, tied knots with a hologram doll, a virtual reality[Read More…]
Istanbul: The Turkish government on Monday insisted it had shared with a French intelligence agency the audio recordings and transcripts related to the killing of a Saudi Arabian journalist in his country’s consulate in Istanbul last month. The assertion came after French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in an[Read More…]
Just a few days after unveiling the 10 feet tall, bronze statue of a Sikh soldier in Smethwick, Birmingham, it has been vandalized and inscribed with controversial messages. Inaugurated on November 4 on public land outside Guru Nanak Gurdwara in Smethwick, it was funded by the gurdwara’s congregation. However, the sculpture[Read More…]
San Francisco: The death toll in the three raging wildfires in California has increased to 25, while the fires have caused destruction to numerous communities across large areas of the US state, the media reported on Sunday. Fires continued to rage on both ends of California as of Saturday night,[Read More…]
Islamabad: A Pakistani court has launched a fresh corruption case against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President and Leader of the Opposition Shehbaz Sharif, officials said on Saturday. Sharif has been in the National Accountability Bureau’s custody since October 5 in another case of alleged corruption related to the Ashiana Iqbal[Read More…]
A 24-year-old Filipino flight attendant of the Philippine Airlines, stepped in to help a passenger’s crying baby after the mother ran out of the formula milk during a flight. Going beyond her call of duty, Patrisha Organo offered to breastfeed the infant when she heard the sobs and realised that[Read More…]
A heartfelt video of a bear cub trying to climb a snow-covered mountain in order to reach to his mother has been doing rounds on social media, garlanding enough warmth and sympathy from the viewers. Many users shared the video as an example of the age-old proverb – “if at[Read More…]
New Delhi: Google on Saturday dedicated a Doodle in honour of Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu who fought gender barriers to become one of the first woman engineers in the world. Born in the Romanian port city of Galati on November 10, 1887, Zamfirescu passed school with high marks from the Central[Read More…]
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has signed a special gazette notification dissolving parliament and declaring January 5, 2019, as the date for a snap parliamentary election. The President said late Friday that parliament would stand dissolved from Saturday 12 a.m. and nominations for the parliamentary elections would be called[Read More…]
Lucy McBath, mother of 17-year-old Jordan Davis who was shot and killed in 2012 in a racial discrimination attack has been elected to Congress. Six years after losing her high school going son Lucy decided to fight for a seat in the US House of Representatives and emerged victorious in[Read More…]
In a shocking incident, at least 12 people including a sheriff’s sergeant were killed in a shooting at a nightclub close to Los Angeles. At least 200 people were reportedly inside the Borderline Bar and Grill, which was hosting a university student night, at the time of the attack. Officials say the[Read More…]
Jakarta: A week after an Indonesian low-cost airline Lion Air plane crashed killing 189 people, another of its aircraft was involved in an incident on Thursday, when it smashed into a pole during takeoff from an airport on Sumatra Island. Lion Air blamed airport staff for the incident, which did[Read More…]
