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…]
New Delhi: Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit India from October 4-5 during the course of which he will hold an annual bilateral summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it was announced on Friday. “Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay an official visit to New Delhi on October 4-5 for[Read More…]
Male, Sep 27 (IANS) The Maldives’ President-elect Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend his oath-taking ceremony in November. Solih’s spokesperson Mariya Ahmed Didi said on Wednesday that Modi was invited to the ceremony during a telephonic conversation between the two sides following Solih’s victory[Read More…]
United Nations, Sep 27 (IANS) President Donald Trump accused China on Wednesday of attempting to meddle in the Nov. 6 congressional elections in the United States in retaliation for the tariffs his administration has imposed on Chinese goods. “Regrettably, we found that China has been attempting to interfere in our[Read More…]
United Nations, Sep 27 (IANS) President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to impose sanctions that are “stronger than ever” on Iran, while his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, demanded a “long-term strategy” to deal with Iran’s nuclear programme that not only focuses on economic restrictions. Trump – chairing the UN Security[Read More…]
United Nations, Sep 27 (IANS) President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he is open to meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas Maduro, at the United Nations. “If he (Maduro) is here and he wants to meet – it was not on my mind, it was not on my plate, but[Read More…]
United Nations, Sep 26 (IANS) French President Emmanuel Macron has said that he was not in charge when the Rafael deal was made and that he would defer to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the matter which he said was “very important to him. “I was not in charge at[Read More…]
Queen Elizabeth II’s cousin Lord Ivar Mountbatten made history as the first royal to have a same-sex wedding when he exchanged rings with his homosexual partner James Coyle, in Devon in front of family and friends. However, neither the queen, not Kate Middleton, Prince William, Prince Charles were seen at[Read More…]
The World Bank would soon approach India and Pakistan with a fresh initiative to resolve the Indus Water Treaty dispute, its President Jim Yong Kim has told Islamabad’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, according to a statement from Pakistan’s UN Mission. It said that Qureshi met Jim at the UN[Read More…]
An 18-year-old girl was beheaded along with her 21-year-old boyfriend in Pakistan by her father and uncle in what the police are calling yet another incident of honour killing, the media reported on Monday. The incident took place in a small village in Attock district when the man arrived at[Read More…]
Afghan health authorities on Monday launched a five-day polio vaccination drive in some of the country’s most high-risk provinces. “Teams will visit 6.4 million children under the age of five in 27 high-risk provinces, mainly in Kandahar and Nangarhar. This follows several new cases in both regions,” Xinhua news agency[Read More…]
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that despite India’s reluctance, Islamabad would not close doors on its efforts to promote peace in the region. “India is reluctant, we will not close our doors,” the Minister said while addressing a news conference at the Pakistan Embassy here on Sunday.[Read More…]