In a shameful incident, an Indian man was produced before a court in New Jersey, on the charges of sexual assault after he groped a woman on an Air India flight from Mumbai to Newark, on Thursday. According to the prosecutor, Ganesh Parkar, 40, sat next to the woman in[Read More…]
Daryl Davis, a blues musician and author has single-handedly managed to convince 200 white racists to quit being part of the Ku Klux Klan by confronting their prejudice with friendship. The 58-year-old from Chicago has spent three decades travelling around the US, infiltrating the white supremacist cult and befriending its[Read More…]
All passengers and crew on board an Afriqiyah Airways flight which has been hijacked from Libya and diverted to Malta where it landed earlier on Friday, have been freed. The hijackers have surrendered, Malta Prime Minister Joseph Muscat tweeted this evening. Hijackers surrendered, searched and taken in custody. — Joseph[Read More…]
A Chinese-led consortium, including the Shanghai Stock Exchange, emerged as the top bidder on Thursday for a 40% stake in the Pakistan Stock Exchange, one of the best-performing markets in Asia this year. The Pakistan Stock Exchange, formerly the Karachi Stock Exchange, said the consortium includes three Chinese exchanges: the[Read More…]
Anis Amri, the main suspect of attack into a Christmas market in Berlin that killed around 35 people, has reportedly been killed in Italy. Along with Italian news magazine Panorama, Reuters too have reported that Amri was killed in a shootout, citing anonymous security sources. As per the report, the[Read More…]
China’s state-run Global Times media organisation carried an article wherein it pushed India to accept the ‘olive branch’ extended by a top Pakistani army general to join the $45 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. “Surprise aside, New Delhi should consider accepting the olive branch Pakistan has extended in a bid to[Read More…]
Two European countries tried to deport Anis Amri, 24 year-old suspect in the Berlin Christmas attack, CNN reported. He served four years of jail time in Italy for assault, arson and damaging state property. German Police claimed on Thursday that they overheard the Tunisian man’s plan to carry out a[Read More…]
United Nations Security Council postponed a vote on a draft resolution demanding to halt Israeli settlement activities as US president-elect Donald Trump weighed in and urged the United States to veto the measure. The resolution proposed by Egypt called for Israel to stop building new settlements, which is illegal under[Read More…]
A Jet Blue airline passenger, who media outlets and a witness described as making angry remarks at the sight of Ivanka Trump on his flight, was removed from the plane on Thursday by the airline. JetBlue Airways Corp confirmed in a statement that a passenger had been removed from a[Read More…]
The death toll from a massive explosion at a Mexican fireworks market on Tuesday has risen to 35, according to government authorities. The toll rose as two females, a woman and a minor, died in the hospital, the government of the state of Mexico said on Thursday. Of the 60[Read More…]
A 41 day-old boy from United Kingdom became the youngest donor to donate his organs. The parents of the deceased boy, Theo Ormondi, decided to donate his organs after their son died of a sudden illness. The parent’s decision gave a new ray of hope in to the life of[Read More…]
Famous singer and music producer from Pakistan, Tahir Shah, who became an online sensation with his song ‘Angel’, has left the country after receiving life threats, his agent said on Wednesday. Shah who rose to fame and became an Internet sensation with his viral debut single, “Eye to Eye” in[Read More…]
BJP strongly lashed out at Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for ‘levelling baseless allegations’ against PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday. Senior BJP leader and union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Wednesday that Rahul Gandhi is frustrated owing to repeated poll defeats in several states and therefore in sadness he is[Read More…]
German Police are in hunt for a Tunisian man in connection with the Berlin Christmas market attack after an ID was found in the truck, German media reported. The man is aged 21 or 23 and known by three different names and was born in the southern Tunisian city of[Read More…]
Unfazed by the biting cold, a video of three Indian-origin men in Canada dancing to Bhangra tunes while shovelling snow in freezing temperatures has been viewed more than 1.6 million times on Facebook and more than 500,000 times on YouTube. The clip was uploaded last week by the Maritime Bhangra[Read More…]
Using the Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter (MRO), researchers have detected cumulative channel growth of troughs, each carved through years of erosion. Researchers said the trough might be the infant versions of larger features known as Martian “spiders,” which are radially patterned channels found only in the south polar region of the[Read More…]
In a substantial growth, India has managed to surpass its erstwhile colonial master United Kingdom in terms of economy – first time after almost 150 years. The feat was achieved as a result of Britain’s recent Brexit-related issues along with India’s rapid economic development. Significantly, the striking shift has been[Read More…]
A man from Chicago is suing McDonald’s restaurants in two Illinois counties, arguing cheeseburger “Extra Value Meals” are actually more expensive than when the items are purchased separately. James Gertie of Des Plaines tells The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald that bundling two cheeseburgers, medium french fries and a drink at[Read More…]
After ISIS claimed responsibility of the violent attack at the Christmas market in Berlin, German police are still hunting for the terrorist who carried out the fatal truck attack. The officials on Tuesday released a suspect in the case, saying they did not have enough evidence to charge him. Also[Read More…]
A massive explosion at a fireworks market outside the Mexican capital killed at least 29 people while left around 70 injured on Tuesday as per the local authorities. This was the third blast that strikes the famous San Pablito market area in Tultepec – about 20 miles (32 km) north[Read More…]
The German authorities say they cannot be sure if a man in custody was behind Monday’s lorry attack on a Berlin Christmas market that killed 12 people. “We have to entertain the theory that the detainee might possibly not have been the perpetrator,” federal prosecutor Peter Frank told reporters. The[Read More…]
The suspect behind the truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin that killed 12 people has been identified as Naveed B, a 23-year-old Pakistani asylum seeker. According to German media, the suspect was picked up about 2 kilometres (1½ miles) away from the scene of the attack in which 48[Read More…]
As declared by President Vladimir Putin on Monday, the Russian investigators on Tuesday flew out to Turkey to assist in the probe into the killing of the country’s ambassador in Ankara Andrei Karlov, the Kremlin told local news agencies. “Eighteen people will work in the group. The group will act[Read More…]
48 journalists killed in 2016; Camera operator and photographer dangerous jobs: CPJ reportThe Committee to Protect Journalist said at least 48 journalist were killed in 2016. CPJ is also investigating the death of 27 journalists to determine whether they were work-related. The deadliest countries for journalists were, in order, Syria,[Read More…]
In a horrific incident, a truck crashes into a Christmas market in central Berlin killing at least 12 people and injuring 48 others in what said to be a deliberate attack on Monday night. The crash occurred outside the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the city’s center. Reportedly, the crowd[Read More…]