At least 50 clerics have issued a fatwa (religious decree) that marriage with a transgender person is now lawful in Pakistan, a media report said on Monday. The fatwa, released on Sunday by the clerics affiliated with Tanzeem Ittehad-i-Ummat, said a transgender person having “visible signs of being a male” may marry a woman or […]
Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is holding a 12-point lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump as support for the latter tumbled in the past month, a poll released on Sunday showed. Clinton enjoys 51 per cent of support among Americans, up by seven points from May, compared to Trump’s support at 39 per cent, […]
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah is set to address a party workers convention in Uttar Pradesh’s (UP) Barabanki districton Monday. Shah will reach the state capital from Uttarakhand by Baaj Express, state spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak said. The meeting will be attended by booth workers of the party from 14 districts and Shah […]
Suicide rates among indigenous people in a remote region of Western Australia are among the highest in the world, a new report has found. In the Kimberley region of WA, figures showed that self-harm was 10 times higher compared to the global average, according to a Medical Journal of Australia publication released on Monday. An […]
BAJIARO MASTANI SWEEPS THE TECHINAL AWARDS § Bollywood’s Mega stars Karan Johar & Fawad Khan hosted the Videocon d2h IIFA Rocks 2016 held on Friday, 24th June in Madrid, Spain with Manish Paul as Guest Host § This year the Videocon d2h IIFA Rocks stage saw spell-binding performances by musical megastars Pritam, Kanika Kapoor, […]
~VIDEOCON D2H IIFA WEEKEND AND NEXA IIFA AWARDS POWERED BY LE ECO COMMENCE FESTIVITIES IN SPAIN~ ~COME BE A PART OF THE IIFA CELEBRATIONS AT IFEMA – FERIA DE MADRID~ – IIFA 2016 to see outstanding acts by the biggest stars in Bollywood including Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone, Hrithik Roshan, Tiger Shroff, […]
Social media giant Facebook has hired a co-founder of Google’s Fibre high-speed internet project to beef up its internet connectivity team. According to tech newssite Re/Code, the social network has hired Kevin Lo as its Director of Infrastructure Connectivity and Investments to help lead Facebook’s partnerships such as Terragraph — a project to bring Wi-Fi […]
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who is currently suspended from office in an ongoing impeachment process, will provide a written statement in a corruption case where she was called as a witness. Rousseff is taking advantage of an article of the Constitution, which allows those who are called witnesses to provide written statements instead of attending […]
The Chinese government on Saturday announced that it has suspended communications with Taiwan over Taipei’s refusal to recognise the ‘1992 consensus’ of the One China policy that has guided relations between the two territories in recent years. In a statement released by Xinhua news agency, Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office said that it has not been […]
Investor panic over Britain leaving the EU spread to Wall Street as US stocks nosedived on the opening bell. The Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were down over two percent after the opening bell. “Markets are clearly shocked right now. Up until today, it’s clear they were complacent, wholly optimistic that a vote […]