The World Bank Group on Tuesday announced a financial aid of up to $500 million to Nepal for reconstruction following the April earthquake. The announcement was made ahead of an international donor conference here on Thursday, The Himalayan Times reported. According to the government, the April 25 temblor caused damage worth $500 million to physical […]
The district magistrate-level meeting of India and Bangladesh, to be held on June 24 in Chittagong in Bangladesh, has been postponed as most of the Indian officials do not have passports. “The district magistrate-level meeting of India and Bangladesh has been postponed as most of the district-level officials have no passport,” a Tripura home department […]
A Bharatiya Janata Party parliamentarian on Tuesday said “no one should help an absconder like (former IPL chief) Lalit Modi”. “Lalit Modi is an absconder and no one should help him. The government should file a case to revoke his passport,” member of Lok Sabha and former home secretary R.K. Singh told the media here. […]
Distributor Paramount Pictures has released the first image and a teaser of the upcoming horror movie “Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension”. One of the photographs delivers an idea about how to enter “the ghost dimension” as it features a portal opening in the wall of a little girl’s room. Another photograph gives a look at […]
A self-proclaimed atheist from Turkey’s southeastern province of Adiyaman, was forced to leave his hometown after receiving death threats for removing “Islam” from the religious affiliation section of his national identity card, media reported on Tuesday. The threats began on May 21, with the man receiving two letters containing death threats and his house being […]
A mob in an open market in China’s Guangxi province hit out at a group of animal rights activists who were protesting against an annual dog meat festival, CNN reported on Tuesday. “Don’t you eat beef? If you stop eating beef, then we’ll stop eating dog meat,” a man yelled at the activists in the […]
Vinod Kapri’s film “Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho” got embroiled in a Khap controversy for narrating a story of a man who is falsely accused by a village strongman of raping a buffalo. The journalist-turned-director says the controversy was “totally uncalled for”. In the film, which stars Om Puri, Sanjay Mishra, Annu Kapoor, Ravi Kishan, Rahul […]
RSS spokesman-turned-BJP leader Ram Madhav’s audacious outburst against Vice President Hamid Ansari is a good example of what all can go wrong if politicians try to usurp the ancient science of yoga. Never mind that Ram Madhav ended up apologising for having publicly pulled up Ansari for not turning up at Rajpath on the occasion […]
Minister for Women and Minister for the Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Pru Goward and NSW Attorney General Gabrielle Upton, today thanked the public for their feedback and suggestions for the development of a Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme (DVDS) in NSW. “The prevention of domestic and family violence continues to be a […]
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Monday participated in the Dalai Lama’s 80th birthday celebrations, and said the Tibetan spiritual leader was an “apostle of peace and struggle”. Virbhadra Singh wished the elderly Buddhist monk a healthy and long life. “The Dalai Lama is a revered leader and a preacher of peace, tranquillity and […]