An angry anti-fascist activist on Saturday threw a creamy chocolate cake at a top official of Germany’s Left Party at a party congress. He said the action was prompted by the politician’s anti-refugee stance. RT online reported that Sahra Wagenknecht, an outspoken leader of Die Linke’s parliamentary faction, was targeted by an activist who threw […]
The Punjabi American Heritage Society of Yuba City and various Sikh temples in California will honour Vishwa Mitra Tandon, a journalist whose investigative reporting brought to light the killing of 11 Sikhs in fake encounters by UP Police in Pilibhit district in 1991. Tandon will be honoured this weekend at multiple ceremonies in Yuba City […]
Union ministers showcased their achievements and leading names from Bollywood, including Amitabh Bachchan, espoused social causes at the “Ek Nayi Subah” event at India Gate lawns here on Saturday to mark completion two years of Narendra Modi government. A range of government initiatives including Swatchh Bharat Campaign, the Beti Badhao Beti Badhao, Pradhan Mantrai Ujjawala […]
The Congress on Saturday named former union ministers P. Chidambaram, Kapil Sibal, Jairam Ramesh, Ambika Soni and Oscar Fernandes as its candidates for the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha. The party’s list of eight candidates from seven states also included Pradeep Tamta, Vivek Tankha and Chhaya Verma. A party release said that the names […]
Attorneys for Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman said they filed a motion challenging the govenment’s decision to authorise his extradition to the US. Attorneys Juan Pablo Badillo Soto and Jose Luis Gonzalez Meza held a press conference on Friday to announce that they submitted the motion on Thursday, EFE news reported. The case […]
Taking connectivity to a new high, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will speak with three astronauts currently living and working aboard the International Space Station on June 1, NASA said in a statement. Yoo too could watch the Earth-to-space call live on NASA’s Facebook page. During the 20-minute Facebook Live video call with NASA […]
With the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) set to have a meeting in June, the US said that it hopes Pakistan understands India’s use of peaceful civil nuclear energy. “This is not about an arms race and it’s not about nuclear weapons,” Mark C. Toner, deputy spokesperson in the US State Department, said at his daily […]
The Rio Olympic Games should be postponed or moved “in the name of public health” over the Zika outbreak in Brazil, more than 100 prominent doctors and professors said in an open letter to the World Health Organisation (WHO). “We make this call despite the widespread fatalism that the Rio 2016 Games are inevitable or […]
Kolkata’s vital thoroughfare Red Road on Friday took on a green hue as thousands of ecstatic Trinamool Congress supporters — their faces smeared in the green colour of the party — chanted “Bangla Hobe Biswasera” (Bengal will be world’s best) and celebrated on the street as their beloved “Didi” took over the reins of the […]
Israel’s Environmental Protection Minister Avi Gabbay resigned from his post on Friday amid the recent addition of Avigdor Lieberman’s ultranationalist party to the coalition. The resignation of Gabbay, a member of the centre Kulanu party, comes in the wake of recent appointment of Lieberman, a known hawk, as the defence minister. Gabbay in a statement […]