Easter, the most significant feast day on the Christian calendar is here. The festival is celebrated as Christians believe that Jesus was crucified on Good Friday and rose again three days later and those three days are known as the Easter Triduum. But then like millions of people you must[Read More…]
The “rhetoric” in the Indian Parliament on the sentencing of Kulbhushan Jadhav was “un-warranted,” said Pakistan, alleging that it is fueling hatred against them. Pakistan refused India’s request for consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav. Pakistan foreign secretary Tehmina Janjua said Indian high commissioner Gautam Bambawale that the hatred against Islamabad[Read More…]
The Autonomous Space Agency Network (ASAN) launched a “protest in space” against US President Donald Trump in solidarity with the upcoming March for Science. The group sent a weather balloon to space with a printed-out anti-Trump tweet attached to it. The group said that their protest was inspired by the[Read More…]
The US forces severely attacked an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday with “the mother of all bombs,” – the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in battle by the U.S. military, said Pentagon officials. Known as a GBU-43B, or massive ordnance air blast weapon, the bomb releases[Read More…]
Nearly 100 migrants were feared missing after their boat sank off the Libyan coast near Tripoli on Thursday, a coastguard official said. 23 migrants were rescued from the craft off Gargaresh, a western suburb of Tripoli, Coastguard spokesman Ayoub Qassem said. According to survivors, the inflatable boat had set off[Read More…]
Amid rising tensions between the two countries India and Pakistan over the death sentence awarded by Pakistan to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav, the UN on Thursday stressed the need for the two countries to engage in dialogue. However, the world body made it clear that it was not in a[Read More…]
A case was slapped on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) youth wing leader, Yogesh Varshney, who declared a reward of Rs 11 lakhs for beheading West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. Reportedly, a complaint was filed by Aligarh district Trinamool Congress President Ramphool Upadhyaya. The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) leader[Read More…]
As 16-year-old Carter Wilkerson took to twitter, hoping to strike a deal with Wendy’s for free chicken nuggets for a year; he is also on the run to set the new world record for retweets! Last week, Carter tagging the food chain’s handle on Twitter asked for the number of retweets he[Read More…]
On the 126th Birth Anniversary of Bhimrao Ambedkar, United Nations on Thursday will celebrate it by focusing on the empowerment of the poor and the marginalised using information and communication technologies to achieve the UN’s sustainable development goals. This mission is organised by the UN mission in association with the[Read More…]
Egyptian Cabinet on Monday announced a three-month state of emergency following the ISIS terror attack on two Coptic Christian churches on Palm Sunday which killed dozens of people. The Egyptian Cabinet, on its website Monday, said it OK’d a three-month, nationwide state of emergency and it went into effect at[Read More…]
In an explosion at a church in northern Egypt, as many as 21 people have been killed. The blast targeted the St George Coptic church in the city of Tanta, north of Cairo. The attack in the Nile Delta town of Tanta was the latest in a series of assaults[Read More…]
At least 20 people were killed when a boat carrying scores of wedding guests collided with a river barge in Western Myanmar, authorities said on Saturday. The boat, called “Silver Star” in Burmese, sank Friday evening in a river near Pathein, a port city west of commercial capital Yangon, local[Read More…]