Meghan Markle broke the Internet ever since news broke out about her dating Prince Harry. The couple made their engagement official last year and melted millions of hearts worldwide when they got hitched in May this year. The much in love couple who is setting major ‘relationship goals’ announced to[Read More…]
Hong Kong: A $20-billion bridge connecting Hong Kong and Macau to the mainland Chinese city of Zhuhai is set to finally open this week, marking the completion of the longest sea-crossing bridge ever built, nine years after construction began. Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to attend a ceremony in[Read More…]
Istanbul: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that he will make statements about murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during his party’s parliamentary group meeting on Tuesday. Speaking at an event in Istanbul on Sunday, Erdogan stated that Turkey seeks justice and will reveal the “naked truth”, reports Xinhua news[Read More…]
New York: Saudi Arabia on Sunday described as “a mistake” the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in its Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, earlier this month. In an interview with Fox News, Saudi Foreign Minister Abel Al-Jubeir said that this was a “rogue operation”. “They made a mistake and killed Jamal[Read More…]
Kabul: The President of Afghanistan on Sunday officially announced that voting in the Afghan parliamentary elections had closed, with initial data from the election commission estimating that over four million eligible voters exercised their democratic rights over the weekend. President Ashraf Ghani made the remarks in a televised speech broadcast[Read More…]
Kinshasa: The death toll in the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has risen to 200, the Health Ministry has said. According to statistics released by the Ministry on Saturday, of the 200 cases confirmed in Beni and surrounding areas, 117 have died of the virus while[Read More…]
San Francisco: Hackers have got access to personal data belonging to 75,000 people in a breach of government health insurance system used by insurance agents and brokers to help customers sign up for healthcare plans in the US, the media reported. The hacked system was connected to the Healthcare.gov website,[Read More…]
Kabul: Eleven civilians were killed in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province on Sunday as voting for parliamentary elections was underway on the second day, an official said. “A mine planted by militants struck a civilian car in Achin district at 11 a.m. killing 11 civilians including a[Read More…]
Washington: A Russian woman has been charged by the US government with trying to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections as part of a conspiracy that exploited thousands of social media accounts and emails that claimed to be owned by US residents, officials said. Forty-four-old Elena Khusyaynova of St. Petersburg[Read More…]
Beijing: China’s home-grown amphibious aircraft AG600, claimed by Beijing as the world’s largest, carried out its first take-off and landing on waters on Saturday. Developed and built by the state-owned aircraft giant Aviation Industry Corporation of China, the seaplane took off from the Zhanghe Reservoir in Jingmen, Hubei’s province, at 8.51[Read More…]
Pakistani revolutionary poet and left-wing activist, Habib Jalib died in 1993 but his family was surviving on the stipend that his wife received after his death. However, the sudden termination of the remittance forced the family to look for another way of income source, compelling his daughter Tahira Habib Jalib[Read More…]
Beijing: China’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 6.7 per cent year on year in the first three quarters of 2018 to about 65.09 trillion yuan ($9 trillion), data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Friday. The growth was in line with market expectations and higher than the[Read More…]
Bangkok: A policeman-turned-pimp was on Thursday convicted of multiple counts of flesh trading in northern Thailand and sentenced to a record 309 years in prison. The former police warrant officer, Yuthachai Thongchart, was convicted guilty by the Criminal Court of multiple counts of forced prostitution preying on underage girls in[Read More…]
With the legalization of Marijuana sales, Canada becomes the first G7 country and second country in the world to legalise cannabis use across the country. Now buying weed is no longer beyond one’s approach would be available both ‘online’ and on retail stores. It is to see how it performs[Read More…]
San Francisco: The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced nine recipients of the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in recognition of their important achievements in the fields of fundamental physics, life sciences and mathematics. The Foundation will award a total of $21 million to the nine winners. It is considered the most generous science[Read More…]
Washington, US President Donald Trump has raised more than $100 million for a re-election battle in 2020, giving him a massive financial advantage over a crowded field of potential Democratic contenders jockeying to challenge him. The President raised more than $18 million during the July-to-September fundraising quarter through his campaign[Read More…]
Washington, Paul Allen, who 43 years ago along with Bill Gates founded Microsoft, the company that revolutionised the software world and personal computers forever, has died, his family announced. He was 65. In a statement, Allen’s relatives said that the businessman died on Monday afternoon in Seattle, where Microsoft has[Read More…]
Dhaka, Durga Puja, the biggest annual Hindu festival, began on Monday in Bangladesh capital Dhaka and elsewhere in the country with due religious fervour. During the five-day Durga Puja festival, the Goddess Durga is worshipped in her different forms. People organise different programs including dancing, traditional drummer perform to celebrate[Read More…]
Jerusalem: Israel’s leading airline El Al warns that all Israeli airlines will stop flying from January 1, 2019 because of security concerns abroad, a newspaper reported on Sunday. The surprising announcement was made by Eli Dapas, El Al chairman, in his urgent letter to the deputy head of Israel’s National[Read More…]
London: Britain and the US are considering boycotting a major international conference in Saudi Arabia after the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the BBC reported on Sunday. Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi government, vanished on October 2 after visiting its consulate in Istanbul, triggering tensions between Riyadh and[Read More…]
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…]
