After several years of protests, authorities have finally banned the sale of dog meat in the Yulin festival, which is celebrated on June 21 every year in the city. The Yulin government will prohibit the sale of dog meat in restaurants, markets and other commercial centres from June 15, Efe reported. Activists from China’s Duo […]
The US government on Thursday admitted that drug trafficking and the criminal groups is Washington’s problem, not just Mexico’s. The administration said that it is necessary to implement a plan to reduce domestic demand for narcotics, Efe reported. “America must also confront the reality that we are the market. But for the seemingly endless demand […]
US President Donald Trump welcomed his Colombian counterpart, Juan Manuel Santos, to the White House, officials said. This was Trump’s first meeting with the South American leader following his government’s hard-won peace deal with the the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, (FARC), reports NBC News. Trump called the effort to end the 52-year conflict that […]
Thousands of people took to the streets across Brazil demanding the resignation of President Michel Temer, who is the target of a corruption investigation. Organised mainly via social media, the largest protests on Thursday took place in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and the nation’s capital, Brasilia, Efe news reported. Besides Temer’s departure, demonstrators also […]
Key Indian equity market indices opened in the green on Friday following Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council’s fitment of 1,211 goods in the tax slabs. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) was trading 208.82 points or 0.69 per cent higher during the early session. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was […]
The US Department of Justice has appointed former FBI chief as special counsel to oversee the investigation of alleged Russian efforts to affect the 2016 election in favour of the US President Donald Trump. Robert Mueller, 72, is a Vietnam veteran and former US attorney who ran the FBI from 2001-2013, Efe reported on Thursday. […]
US President Donald Trump is looking forward to working closely with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in and is willing to make peace with North Korea through engagement if the conditions are right, according to a top Seoul envoy. Trump made the remarks on Wednesday during a 15-minute meeting with special envoy Hong Seok-hyun in […]
President Donald Trump slammed his critics and the “Washington media” while delivering a speech at the US Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut, the media reported. “Over the course of your life, you will find things are not always fair, you will find things happen to you that you do not deserve and not always warranted […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday condoled the sudden demise of Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave, saying that it was a personal loss. Dave passed away at his official residence here. The exact time is not yet known. The incident came to light at around 7.30 a.m., when his staff tried to wake him up. […]
Veteran film, stage and television actress Reema Lagoo died following a cardiac arrest early on Thursday morning, a family source said. The 59-year-old artiste breathed her last at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital (KDAH), in Andheri west, where she was rushed shortly after midnight. Divorced from her former husband and actor Vivek Lagoo, she is […]