After India, now #MeToo movement has started at the border country, Nepal with women from different parts of the country coming forward to share their stories and expose guilty sitting in powerful positions. However, most women sharing their stories on sexual assault in Nepal have largely refrained from naming and[Read More…]
Minister of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj, who is visiting Tajikistan’s capital to attend a two-day conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)’s Council of Heads of Government, was greeted in a ‘Sanskrit’ message during her welcome in a community event in Dushanbe on Thursday. Not everyday there is a welcome speech[Read More…]
Jakarta: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) pledged up to $1 billion of emergency assistance fund to support Indonesia’s immediate budgetary needs and reconstruction efforts in areas affected by earthquakes and tsunami on Sulawesi Island. The ADB assistance fund pledge was conveyed by the bank’s President Takehiko Nakao in presence of[Read More…]
The municipal election in Brampton city of Ontario in Canada has become a major centre of attraction for locals and Indians too, as around 36 Punjabi candidates are in the competition for the civic polls. In an electrifying contest for the topmost chair, Bal Gosal, who originally hails from Punjab,[Read More…]
Singapore: A Singapore Airlines flight from Singapore to New York, deemed as the world’s longest non-stop flight, is set to take off on Thursday. Singapore Airlines is relaunching the service five years after they withdrew it because it had become too expensive, reports the BBC. It will cover more than[Read More…]
Washington: Forty-nine per cent of Americans have said that the US has “mostly failed” even after being 17 years into war in Afghanistan, according to a new poll. The poll released by the Washington-based Pew research centre also showed that about 35 per cent of respondents said it has mostly[Read More…]
The Japanese passport overtakes Singapore to become the strongest in the world according to 2018 Henley Passport Index release. It allows Japanese passport holders to travel to 190 countries and territories freely without a visa. The Singapore passport allows its holders to travel to 189 destinations freely without a visa[Read More…]
Chicago: Nikki Haley, US Ambassador to the UN and the highest-ranking woman official in the Trump administration, is leaving with her reputation not only intact but even significantly enhanced. As she prepares to leave at the end of 2018 after two years at the UN, the 46-year-old daughter of Indian[Read More…]
Washington: Nikki Haley, the first American of Indian descent to hold a cabinet-level position in the US, resigned as Ambassador to the UN on Tuesday. CNN said that Haley sent her resignation directly to President Donald Trump. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders tweeted: “President Trump and Ambassador Nikki Haley[Read More…]
Brasilia: Far-right Congressman Jair Bolsonaro pulled off a thumping win in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election but fell short of the majority required to avoid a second round runoff, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal has announced. The Tribunal said Bolsonaro of the Social Liberal Party won Sunday’s poll with[Read More…]
Beijing: China has confirmed it is holding the missing head of Interpol, Meng Hongwei. Beijing said he was under investigation by the country’s anti-corruption body for unspecified breaches of the law, BBC reported on Sunday. Meng, also a vice-minister of public security in China, was reported missing after travelling from[Read More…]
Anonymous artist Banksy stunned the world when his ‘Girl with Red Balloon’ painting shredded itself moments after being sold for $1 million at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale in London. View this post on Instagram . “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge” – Picasso A[Read More…]
Washington: The US Senate has confirmed Brett Kavanaugh as the 114th Supreme Court Justice by one of the narrowest margins in history amid mass protests, ending a vitriolic battle that began as a debate over judicial ideology and concluded with a national reckoning over sexual misconduct. As a chorus of[Read More…]
Stockholm, Oct 5 (IANS) The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday awarded the Peace Prize to Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and former Islamic State (IS) hostage and human rights activist Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict. The[Read More…]
Washington: Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who is accused of alleged sexual abuse, wrote in an op-ed where he argued that he was an “independent, impartial judge” and conceding he “might have been too emotional” in his Senate Judiciary Committee last week. “I was very emotional last Thursday (September 27),[Read More…]
San Francisco: Apple displaced Google to become the top brand in the world in 2018 while Facebook, mired in data breach controversies, fell to ninth place in the top 100 brands globally, an annual report said on Thursday. According to global brand consultancy Interbrand’s “Best 100 Global Brands 2018” report,[Read More…]
Los Angeles: Actor Tom Hardy, who does not consume alcohol, revealed he was addicted to booze and cocaine until his mid-20s and went to rehab in 2003. While appearing at the “Good Morning Britain’s” show, the father of two admitted his past struggles helped him tap into the troubled psyche[Read More…]
Instagram stopped working making people go haywire and jump to Twitter. Just a day after millions faced hacking issues with their Facebook accounts on Tuesday and Wednesday, now its photo-sharing platform, Instagram is suffering a global outage. People took to Twitter to verify the news since Zuckerberg’s company did not[Read More…]
Washington, Oct 3 (IANS) The US Secret Service has said it has intercepted a “suspicious envelope” marked for President Donald Trump and a probe is on, shortly after the Pentagon confirmed seizing packages containing deadly toxin ricin used in biological attacks by terror groups. The Secret Service, which is the[Read More…]
New Delhi: Multilateralism has not been under so much fire as it is today and India will be the essential component if the world has to become multipolar, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday. He called for a global response to climate change and terrorism, which he said[Read More…]
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics to three physicists for their work on lasers. While one half of the award goes to Arthur Ashkin, who invented optical tweezers, the other half is shared between Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland. YES! FIRST WOMAN IN 55[Read More…]
United Nations: Eminent academic and economic adviser to the Kerala government, Gita Gopinath, was appointed on Monday as Director of the International Monetary Fund’s Research Department. Announcing the appointment, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde called her “one of the world’s outstanding economists with impeccable academic credentials, a proven track record[Read More…]
James P Allison jointly won the Nobel Prize in medicine with Tasaku Honjo for their discovery of cancer therapy by “inhibition of negative immune regulation. The scientists’ groundbreaking work on the immune system has paved the way for a new class of cancer drugs that are already dramatically changing outcomes[Read More…]
Zarrar Haider Khan, a senior bureaucrat from Pakistan, was suspended after he was caught on CCTV, pocketing the wallet of a Kuwaiti delegate during a meeting on investment plans. Grade 20 GoP officer stealing a Kuwaiti official’s wallet – the official was part of a visiting delegation which had come[Read More…]
Jakarta, Oct 1 (IANS) Indonesian authorities will begin on Monday mass burials for hundreds of people killed in an earthquake and a subsequent tsunami that hit the Sulawesi island on September 28, as search and rescue efforts continued to find more victims and survivors. The spokesperson for the National Agency[Read More…]