The second night of protests over police shooting in Charlotte on Wednesday, ended with one person being shot, said city officials. The civilian, who was not identified, is in critical condition and on life support, the city tweeted; adding that the person was shot by another civilian. North Carolina Governor[Read More…]
North Korea, like many countries, has its own country code top-level domain name. This means any Web address that ends with “.kp” is linked to the notoriously isolated nation, much like addresses that end “.de” are linked to Germany and “.jp” are linked to Japan. What’s unusual, however, is how[Read More…]
A rocket fired by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) at US forces in Iraq may have carried a chemical agent, a US defence official said on Wednesday. If confirmed, it would be the first recorded chemical attack on US troops since the militant group overran parts of[Read More…]
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday asked nations engaged in “proxy wars” to end them, warning that if communities are not allowed to co-exist, the “members of extremism will continue to burn” causing sufferings to countless human beings and export of extremism overseas. In his eighth and final address to[Read More…]
According to a Facebook post from John F Kennedy’s niece, Kathleen Kennedy, former President George H W Bush is going to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Kathleen, who is the former lieutenant governor of Maryland, posted a photograph on Facebook with a caption ‘The President told me he[Read More…]
More than forty per cent of young singletons in Japan are virgins, according to a new study that highlights concerns about the country’s demographic challenges. Japan already suffers from the world’s oldest population and a shrinking birthrate, with the government struggling to incentivise marriage and parenthood. Now a survey of[Read More…]
An Australian restaurant in Brisbane has been accused of “gross racism” on social media for promoting itself as celebrating the British Empire’s “push into the developing cultures of the world”. British Colonial Co, located in Hawthorne, opened in late June but attracted criticism over a description on its website, which[Read More…]
Brahamdagh Bugti, Baloch leader who has been living in self-imposed exile in Switzerland has applied for asylum in India. “We want that the Indian Government should open the doors for Baloch people and provide them access, including myself,” said Bugti. He added that India’s intervention is important for the cause[Read More…]
Criticism on Pakistan’s policy of supporting terrorism has this time come from none other than its own chief justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali. The chief justice while speaking at a ceremony in Islamabad on Monday slammed Pakistani political parties for endorsing terrorism. Jamali said, “It is disappointing to see some political[Read More…]
Even though allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin comfortably won a parliamentary election on Monday, but low turnout indicates lowering of enthusiasm for the ruling elite 18 months before the next presidential election. The ruling United Russia party won 51% in elections on Sunday, soon after a quarter of the[Read More…]
Clad in black sweatpants, red jackets and white helmets, the hundreds of cyclists pedaling the treacherously steep, narrow mountain passes to India from Nepal could be mistaken for a Himalayan version of the Tour de France. The similarity, however, ends there. This journey is longer and tougher, the prize has[Read More…]
An emergency UN Security Council meeting was called after US-led coalition air strikes reportedly killed dozens of Syrian soldiers on Saturday, endangering a US-Russian brokered ceasefire. As tensions escalated between Moscow and Washington, the United States military said the coalition ended the attacks, which incidentally were being carried out against[Read More…]
Nadia Murad Basee Taha , a 23-year-old Yazidi woman who escaped ISIS sex slavery has been appointed as a United Nations goodwill ambassador. Nadia will act as an ambassador for the dignity of survivors of human trafficking for the UN’s Drugs and Crime body. The 23-year-old Nadia was taken from her home[Read More…]
Most of us have a dream of going on a long road trip with friends riding a Harley Davidson or a cosy SUV. But Naveen Rabelli, Indian origin Australian automotive engineer wanted to make his road trip distinctively adventurous as well as wanted to spread a ‘green’ message. The 35-year-old[Read More…]
Republican Donald Trump on Friday finally acknowledged that President Barack Obama was born in the United States but accused Hillary Clinton of starting the so-called birther controversy, a charge that independent fact-checking sites have said is false. “President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period,” said Trump, reversing[Read More…]
A 44-year-old Indian-American former CEO has been charged with two separate fraud schemes totalling more than $30 million and faces a maximum statutory sentence of twenty years in prison for each count. Navin Shankar Subramaniam Xavier, who has been charged by Indictment with 15 counts of wire fraud. He was[Read More…]
According to western defence experts Pakistan might be building a new uranium enrichment complex as observed by commercial satellite imagery. The analysis conducted by IHS Jane’s Intelligence review using satellite images says that construction of a new site in the town of Kahuta, some thirty kilometres east of Islamabad, provides fresh evidence of[Read More…]
A 100-year-old sex-crazed tortoise named Diego saved his entire species by fathering almost 40% of the offspring in the last 50 years. Diego is a Chelonoidis hoodensis which belongs to Galapagos species. Diego has single-handedly saved his entire species which was at the brink of extinction as he fathered an estimated 800 offspring. Around[Read More…]
In a bizzare incident, a pair of thieves who broke into a home in the US state of Texas and swiped electronic equipment left behind notes confessing to the crime in child-like handwriting. The burglary took place in southwest Houston on Monday after the uneducated robbers entered the house while[Read More…]
Hundreds have been evacuated from Southern Taiwan and China with a red alert being issued in the region as it braves the ‘strongest storm of the year’. Super typhoon Meranti, which has reached speeds of up to 230 miles per hour (370 kph), has forced schools, businesses to close and[Read More…]
On Tuesday, the entire world celebrated Eid al-Adha, which is also known as ‘Bakrid’ (Sacrifice feast) in many countries. Thousands of animals including sheep, goats and cows were slaughtered on streets to mark the auspicious day which honours willingness of prophet Abraham to sacrifice one’s own son at the God’s command.[Read More…]
The Chinese government has warned Taiwan against allowing exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, Dalai Lama to visit. The Dalai Lama was invited by Freddy Lim, Taiwan’s prominent heavy metal singer and an outspoken China critic. Lim was elected to the Taiwanese parliament in January, this year and had met the spiritual[Read More…]
Indian origin American professor of media arts and sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Ramesh Raskar has been awarded the 2016 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize. Raskar is the co-inventor of radical imaging solutions including femtophotography, an ultra-fast imaging system that can see around corners and a camera that allows users to[Read More…]
The usually secretive North Korean government made a public appeal for relief to help those affected by severe floods in the northeast region of the country. The Korean Central News Agency (KNCA) on Sunday said that the country’s northeast has been affected by the ‘heaviest downpour’ since 1945, with tens[Read More…]
Today marks the 15th anniversary of 9/11 attacks, a tragedy that sent shock waves across the globe and marked a new era that is known as post 9/11 world. On September 11, 2001, four US commercial airplanes were hijacked and crashed into the World Trade Center’s twin towers in New York[Read More…]
