American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. The Swedish Academy said Dylan ‘created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’. Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941 and began his musical career in 1959, playing in coffee houses in[Read More…]
Acclaimed playwright, theatre actor and Nobel Laureate Dario Fo passed away at the age of 90 in Milan. Famous for his cutting political satires, he won the Nobel prize for literature in 1997 and his most famous works include, ‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’ and ‘Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!’ He[Read More…]
Rejecting references by Pakistan on the condition of women in Kashmir, India said that innocent women have suffered for long due to persistent terror attacks by ‘proxies of Pakistan’. The statement was made by Counsellor Mayank Joshi in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN, reports PTI. Joshi exercised India’s Right[Read More…]
After the failed missile attack attempts on a US Navy destroyer, the Pentagon has responded by launching cruise missile strikes on three coastal radar sites in Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi forces. BBC reports that the attack which took place on Thursday was authorised by President Obama and was carried[Read More…]
Days after Donald Trump said that he had never engaged in such a behavior, three women have accused Donald Trump of groping or kissing them without their consent in news reports published Wednesday. As reported by the New York Times, one of the women alleges that Trump grabbed her breasts[Read More…]
Masood Azhar, the Jaish-e-Muhammad chief has called for jihadist and militant groups to be allowed to launch offensives against India. Published in Jaish weekly al-Qalam, it said, “If the government of Pakistan shows a little courage, “the problem of Kashmir, as well as the dispute over water, can be resolved[Read More…]
The UN headquarters in New York was witness to several members of the Sikh community protesting outside the building, raising concerns over the escalating India-Pak tensions and its impact on the lives of the people in Punjab. The ‘Save Punjab Rally’, organised on Tuesday by rights group Sikhs for Justice[Read More…]
Pakistani government has been slammed by Amnesty International for its “crude” imposition of a travel ban on Cyril Almeida for reporting the clash between civilian officials and military over covert support for militants. The assistant editor at Dawn, was placed under the country’s “Exit Control List,” and was forbidden from[Read More…]
Chinese experts have said the sealing of the border, announced by the Indian government last week is “irrational” and will set back bilateral ties. The move reflects India’s “Cold War mentality”, one expert said Hu Zhiyong, a research fellow from the official think-tank, Institute of International Relations of the Shanghai[Read More…]
The ‘vitiated’ atmosphere in the wake of the Uri terror attack is said to be stated as one of Bhutan’s primary reasons for pulling out of the Saarc summit, reports PTI. The nation conveyed the decision to the Saarc chair in Nepal, supporting India’s national interest. “We also share concerns[Read More…]
Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif today said India will be “mistaken” if it equates the “freedom struggle” of Kashmiris with terrorism. Sharif added that Kashmiris were fighting for their right of self-determination and Pakistan would continue to support them. “No power in the world can stop us from supporting the freedom[Read More…]
British-born Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom of Finland won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their contributions to contract theory, shedding light on how contracts help people deal with conflicting interests. Their findings on contract theory have implications for corporate governance, bankruptcy legislation and political constitutions, among other[Read More…]
India’s bid to be part of the Nuclear Suppliers Group or NSG is well documented. The major hurdle in the bid remained neighbour China, who has voted against India every time the bid came up for talks. In a move which indicates a softening stand ahead of President Xi Jinping’s[Read More…]
Donald Trump on Sunday attacked former President Bill Clinton for his treatment of women and vowed, if he won the White House, to put Hillary Clinton in jail for operating a private email server while US secretary of state. In a contentious town-hall debate, Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, said[Read More…]
Union Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Kalraj Mishra is in China to attend the China International Small and Medium Enterprises Fair (CISMEF). Mishra reached Guangzho on Saturday with delegation of 124 Indian Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). India is partnering with Bureau of China International[Read More…]
US presidential nominee Donald Trump vowed on Saturday to remain in the race even as his campaign was thrown into crisis as both his wife and running mate criticized him and more than a dozen prominent Republicans withdrew support and urged him to drop out following news of a recording[Read More…]
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is hunting a replacement for its chief Lt Gen Rizwan Akhtar within the next few weeks, a media report said on Saturday. Akhtar was appointed the director general of ISI in September 2014 and took office in November 2014, when he replaced the retiring Lt Gen[Read More…]
A video has surfaced that threatens to disrupt Donald Trump’s electoral campaign. The US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday had to apologise for making lewd and sexist comments about a married woman in a video from 2005. in the audio of the video, Trump talked about trying to[Read More…]
The president of Colombia has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The Nobel committee has said that the prestigious award is given to him for pursuing a deal to end 52 years of conflict with a leftist rebel group. The President has dedicated the prize to his fellow[Read More…]
Hurricane Matthew closed in on Florida after killing at least 339 people in Haiti on its destructive march north through the Caribbean. Carrying extremely dangerous winds of 215 km per hour (kmph), the storm pounded the northwestern part of the Bahamas en route Florida’s Atlantic coast, the US National Hurricane[Read More…]
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has warned the powerful military not to shield banned militant groups after facing international isolation. He has also directed authorities to conclude the investigation in both the recent Pathankot terror attack probe and the 2008 Mumbai attack. As reported by a leading Pakistani daily Dawn,[Read More…]
Mushahid Hussain Syed, special Kashmir envoy of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was quoted as saying, “The US is no longer a world power. It is a declining power. Forget about it.” He was speaking after the conclusion of an interaction at the Atlantic Council, one of the top American[Read More…]
A 7-year-old girl in McKeesport, Pannsylvania told her bus driver on Monday afternoon that she hadn’t been able to wake up her parents that morning. When police responded to the scene, they found both her parents dead of a suspected drug overdose. The girl had been trying to rouse her[Read More…]
A recent study has confirmed the link between hormonal contraceptives and depression. Published in the University of Copenhagen, this study was conducted on one million Danish women aged between the ages of 15 and 34 and spanned a period of 13 years. Extremely relevant for women who have faced the[Read More…]
Brooke Blair, a 5-year-old British girl’s video message for UK Prime Minister Theresa May has gone viral and the kid has already won millions for hearts. Brooke in a video message could be seen urging Theresa May to build houses and deliver biscuits and hot chocolate to the homeless people[Read More…]