About 2000 asylum seekers have set Bulgaria’s largest refugee camp on fire and clashed with police after the camp was sealed off over reports of a disease outbreak. Police fired water cannon and rubber bullets against the rioters. Around 300 migrants were arrested. We used a water cannon, blanks and[Read More…]
Prime Minster Narendra Modi was leading the TIME’s person of the year reader’s poll Thursday with 11% of the vote to date, compared to Julian Assange who was in second place with 9%. In recent months, Prime Minister has taken the decisive action of withdrawing the country’s high-value currency notes[Read More…]
Adding to the woes of Nepalese citizens who are facing problems in exchanging banned Indian currency, the Nepal Rashtra Bank has banned the use of the newly-issued ₹500 and ₹2000 notes. The country’s central bank said that the new Indian currency cannot be exchanged until the Reserve Bank of India[Read More…]
Over 67 people were killed after a platform under construction at a power plant in eastern China collapsed early on Thursday. The latest industrial accident in a nation with a miserable safety record killed at least 67 people so far. According to the official Xinhua news agency, a cooling tower[Read More…]
Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar fled into Bangladesh this week to escape the violence that has massacred at least 86 people and displaced about 30,000 people. Rohingyans who managed to enter Bangladesh sought shelter in refugee camps. A refugee boat sank in a river while crossing the river Naaf[Read More…]
The QS Employability Ranking has ranked IIT-Kharagpur as the top institution in India for the second time in a row. IIT-Bombay also figured in the list consisting of top 100 universities in the world. Other Indian institutions among the top 200 are IIT-Madras, IIT-Delhi and University of Delhi, QS Employability[Read More…]
The Islamic State has used chemical weapons at least 52 times on Iraq and Syria since 2014, an Independent analysis said. IHS Conflict Monitor, a London based intelligence collection and analysis service, analysed that more than one-third of the chemical attacks have carried out in and around Mosul, ISIS stronghold[Read More…]
Eminent Bangladeshi economist Dr Abul Barkat said that no Hindus will be left in Bangladesh 30 years from now if the current rate of exodus continues as an average 632 people leaving the country each day. “The rate of exodus over the past 49 years points to that direction” Barakat[Read More…]
New York City is spending more than $1 million a day to protect US president-elect Donald Trump and his family, US officials said. The New York city police have been assigned to protect Donald Trump, his adult children and his grand children. The costs are not expected to drop significantly[Read More…]
A comedian named Chris Martin was confused after he gained 500 Twitter followers post Coldplay band concert in Mumbai. He has same name as the lead singer of band. “To the 500 Indian followers I gained in the last day I’m not in Coldplay.” He also updated his Twitter profile[Read More…]
A man was caught on camera hurling abuses on a Muslim Uber driver telling him he will ‘get deported’. He was also heard telling him that he will “get deported” now as Donald Trump is going to be the President. The man was recorded on video lashing out at the[Read More…]
A total of 17 people died and 37 others were injured after 56 vehicles piled up on a Beijing-Kunming expressway in North China’s Shanxi province on Monday. It cited local authorities as saying the injured were in a stable condition. A rescue operation was launched involving local police, firefighters, doctors[Read More…]
A powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake hits Japan’s Fukushima and Miyagi has triggered tsunami waves of more than one metre, US Geological Survey said The quake struck at about 6:00 am local time (2:30 am IST). National media reported minor injuries and damages. National broadcaster NHK urged residents to seek higher grounds[Read More…]
Former French president Nikolas Sarkozy has announced his withdrawal from politics after conceding defeat in the first round of country’s right-wing presidential primary. The former French President came third in the poll with 21.4 percent with three-quarters of the vote counted. Former prime minister Francois Fillon took the lead in[Read More…]
Olympic silver medalist PV Sindhu clinched her maiden Super Series Premier title after edging out Sun Yu of China in the finals of the $700,000 China Open badminton tournament on Sunday. Sindhu, who became the toast of the country after becoming the first Indian woman to win a silver Olympic[Read More…]
The Taronga Zoo in Sydney has welcomed its first baby echidnas or puggles as they are better known, in almost 30 years. These cute, squeaky little animals hatched from their eggs in August but keepers wanted to see them grow before going public, reported the BBC. “Echidnas are notoriously difficult[Read More…]
Thousands of anti-government protesters marched in Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Saturday demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Razak over his involvement in a billion dollar misappropriation scandal. Clothed in yellow, the protesters marched from various spots towards Kuala Lumpur amidst the high security. The festive mood gathering witnessed[Read More…]
A new bill proposed by the Turkish parliament will allow those who rape underage children to be pardoned for the crime as long as they marry the victim after the act. The bill would pardon men only if they had sex without “force or threat” and if they married the[Read More…]
The first UN climate conference after the historical Paris Agreement closed on Friday with the members appealing to US president-elect Donald Trump to join the fight against global warming. Afraid of the possibility that the US could withdraw from the emission pact signed in Paris last year, countries rallied in[Read More…]
In the wake of unexpected results in the US elections, many people were criticizing Facebook for not censoring fake news articles that could have impacted the popular votes. But, the former NSA employee-turned whistle blower Edward Snowden said fake news site wasn’t the real issue. Speaking at Fusion’s Real Future[Read More…]
At least 73 people have been killed and scores more injured in a fuel truck explosion in Mozambique, the nation’s public radio announced. A government statement said people had been trying to take petrol from the truck when it exploded in the village of Caphiridzange in Tete province, near the[Read More…]
A British tourist has been arrested and charged with illegal “extra-marital sex” in Dubai after telling police she had been gang raped. The 25-year-old woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was on holiday in the United Arab Emirates when she was allegedly attacked by two British men last[Read More…]
Bollywood actress, Mallika Sherawat has been tear gassed and beaten up by three masked intruders in her own Paris apartment block, police revealed today. The horrific attack on the 40-year-old Indian model comes just a month after reality TV star Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in a neighbouring flat.[Read More…]
Philip Russell, an American, has been found guilty of drug smuggling and been given a life sentence by an Indonesian court. Russell was sentenced on Wednesday by the District Court in Semarang, the provincial capital of Central Java. On Thursday, a court spokesperson said that 56-year-old Russell was arrested with[Read More…]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to withdraw Russia from the International Criminal Court, which prosecutes war crimes, crime against humanity and genocide. “The court has not justified the hopes placed on it and has not become an independent, authoritative organ of international justice,”Russian foreign ministry said. The[Read More…]
