80-year-old former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan passed away on Saturday morning August 18 in Switzerland. In a statement posted on Twitter, the Kofi Annan Foundation and Mr Annan’s family announced that the Nobel Laureate passed away after a short illness. “Today we mourn the loss of a great man,[Read More…]
Cricketer-turned-politician and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman and Imran Khan has been sworn-in as the 22nd prime minister of Pakistan on Saturday. The swearing-in ceremony was held at the President House in Islamabad. Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath to the new Pakistan Prime Minister. It must be noted that 65-year old Imran[Read More…]
Google took a new move Wednesday to increase transparency on political ads on its platform by releasing an online library of US political ads and a report on details of ad-expenditure ahead of the mid-term US elections in November this year. Google said the addition of the political advertising report[Read More…]
The Australian Senate on Wednesday appointed its first female Muslim member, Mehreen Faruqi, even as the country was caught up in a bitter row over racism. Pakistan-born Faruqi, the Greens Party MP for New South Wales, was appointed to fill a vacant seat. Her joining coincided with the row sparked[Read More…]
When someone says 15th August, what comes in your mind first? Of course, Independence Day. It is same with anyone who is Indian, whether the person lives in India or is a non residential Indian in any country. 15th August brings the memory of all that we have read, heard[Read More…]
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has come under fire over a promotional video made by the national flag carrier in collaboration with a Polish tourist who is seen doing the ‘Kiki challenge’ inside an empty aircraft. On Monday, a video went viral of Polish tourist Eva Bianka Zubeck performed the popular[Read More…]
The Nobel laureate VS Naipaul passed away at his home in London, aged 85. The British novelist VS Naipaul was most famous for his seminal 1961 novel A House for Mr Biswas. Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001 for “having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works[Read More…]
While people still celebrating the World Breastfeeding celebrations, a Texas mother, while breastfeeding her 3-month-child, was asked by a man to ‘cover-up’, to which, the clever mother gave a hilarious response by choosing to put a cloth on her face instead. While dining with her family on vacation, Melanie Dudley[Read More…]
A partial solar eclipse, the third and final solar eclipse of the year, will take place on August 11, lasting for nearly 3 hours 30 minutes. The partial solar eclipse will be visible in the day starting at around 1:32 PM Indian Standard Time (IST), and will be visible till 5:02[Read More…]
Su Ayhan, a 26-year-old contestant on Turkish version of ‘Kon Banega Crorepati’ was recently bashed by the social media over using two lifelines to answer the question – where is the Great Wall of China? Su Ayhan, a 26-year-old economics graduate from Istanbul, Turkey appeared on an episode of “Who[Read More…]
US First Lady Melania Trump’s parents became American citizens in a naturalisation ceremony here, completing a year-long immigration process even as President Donald Trump called for new laws to bar Americans from sponsoring parents and other relatives. Michael Wildes, an attorney for Viktor and Amalija Knavs, who had been living in the country as legal permanent residents after leaving their native[Read More…]
The US government has said it will impose fresh sanctions on Russia after determining it used nerve agent against a former Russian double agent living in the UK. Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious on a bench in the city of Salisbury in March. The attack left[Read More…]
Although the world has been trying to overcome the memories associated with Hiroshima Nagasaki bombing, the fear of atomic bombing still haunts the world
A powerful earthquake with 5.2 magnitude hit Indonesian island, Lombok at around 3 pm on Tuesday claiming at least 142 lives. People ran screaming for their lives as the strong thrust destroyed hundreds of homes, making thousands homeless. Around 1,000 tourists have been removed from the Gili islands and arrangements[Read More…]
In a surprise move, Elon Musk has announced to take his electric car maker company Tesla private at $420 per share. A final decision has not yet been made, but the reason for doing this is all about creating the environment for Tesla to operate best. “As a public company, we[Read More…]
After foraying into the international market with a drive into Australia earlier this year, Indian ride-hailing major Ola on Tuesday revealed its plans to enter the European market by starting operations in Britain within the next month. Ola said it has obtained licences to operate in South Wales and Greater[Read More…]
US President Donald Trump’s administration will re-impose the first batch of Iran sanctions on Monday since Washington withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal. The more significant tranche of sanctions, including on oil sales, won’t however, come into force until November, reports The Hill news. Trump announced in May that he[Read More…]
Geneva: A small plane with 20 people onboard crashed in the Swiss Alps on Saturday, police said on Sunday. There was no report on casualties. The plane went down on the western side of the Piz Segnas Mountain at an altitude of 2,540 meters, reports Xinhua news agency. The Swiss[Read More…]
San Francisco: The New York Times has defended its new hire, Sarah Jeong, who was dragged into a racism controversy for tweets she wrote from 2013 to early 2015. The paper announced this week that it had hired Jeong as the lead technology writer for its editorial board. But soon[Read More…]
San Francisco: In a bid to take on mobile dating apps like Tinder and Bumble, Facebook has begun testing its dating project internally with employees. According to a report in The Verge on Friday, an independent app researcher, Jane Manchun Wong found evidence of the dating feature testing and posted it[Read More…]
Facebook has something new for 830 million youngsters in the world. Wait, not just for the youngsters but also for the educators looking to address digital literacy. Yes, Facebook has announced the launch of a Digital Literacy Library to help young people build the skills they need to safely enjoy[Read More…]
Pakistan’s to-be-Prime Minister Imran Khan has a change in his plan and has decided to take the oath in simple ceremony cancelling the plan of inviting foreign dignitaries and celebrities. The invitations will be sent only to a few close friends of Imran Khan. The oath-taking ceremony will take place at[Read More…]
The world’s most prestigious maths medal , the Fields Medal, was stolen from a British refugee professor just half an hour after he was awarded the prize here. Caucher Birkar, 40, was one of the four joint winners of the medal — regarded as the Nobel Prize of mathematics —[Read More…]
US President Donald Trump has escalated his trade war with China, ordering his administration to consider more than doubling proposed tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods to 25 per cent from 10 per cent, as talks between Washington and Beijing remain at a standstill. Trump on Wednesday instructed[Read More…]
If asked, do you find Google results relevant? Majority would say a ‘Yes’. We often opt for a Google search for any image, video or textual information. Now Google moves ahead to make the tabular data search results more relevant. This progress was mapped out in the wake of the[Read More…]