With uncertainty looming large vis-a-vis Russian arrivals in the forthcoming tourism season due to an economic crisis in the country, Goa may see a ray of hope from neighbouring Latvia. According to the Goa-based Russian Information Centre, Latvian charter flights will debut in Goa’s tourism market this December, with six flights from the Baltic state […]
Sweta Uchil-Purohit Nutritionist Spring is in the air and that means it’s time to clean up…your diet!! That’s right, it’s high time you took charge of your health and got it back on the right track by making little changes in the way you eat and of course by being more active. Eating according to […]
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will visit Pakistan on Monday to hold meetings with the country’s top political and military leadership, media reported. According to Dawn online, Steinmeier will hold a meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and a formal chat with Sartaj Aziz, the country’s National Security and Foreign Advisor to the prime minister. […]
The Japanese parliament on Friday approved a bill aimed at women empowerment and enhancing the role of a woman in the workplace, the media reported. The law obliges the government to come up with a policy for offering women more opportunities in recruitment and promotion, state-run NHK news agency reported. It also called for creating […]
Heard of the term ‘phubbing’? According to the Collins Dictionary, it means ignoring someone in a social setting by looking at your phone instead of paying attention. Sounds familiar? We have all been either phubbed, or have done that to somebody else at some time. But this increasing digital intoxication in children and adolescents can […]
As a heartbroken President Barack Obama renewed a call for gun control in the wake of the killing of two journalists on live TV, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump instead favoured addressing mental health issues. “It breaks my heart every time when you read about or hear about these kind of incidents,” the president told an […]
A manhunt was underway for a gunman who fatally shot a local news reporter and photographer on live television during an interview outside Moneta, Virginia, on Wednesday morning. Alison Parker was interviewing a woman at approximately 6.45 a.m. when shots rang out. Both women screamed, CNN reported. As the camera fell to the ground, the […]
Outshining seasoned politicians, drawing huge crowds and surging in polls, frontrunner Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has served notice on his opponents that he is in the game to win. “It’s one thing to have the summer of Trump. But it doesn’t mean anything unless we win,” Trump told a crowd Tuesday in Dubuque in […]
An organisation that governs and cares for the transgender community in Malaysia has lodged a police complaint on a hate video that sought physical violence against the community. The Malaysian Tamil Thirunangai Organisation lodged the complaint at the Dang Wangi police station in Kuala Lumpur after a group of Indian-Malaysian transgender women complained about the […]
The toll in blasts in a warehouse in China’s Tianjin city has risen to 123, authorities said on Sunday. The identities of all victims have been verified, Xinhua quoted Gong Jiansheng, deputy head of Tianjin’s publicity department as saying. Fifty people, including 34 firefighters and four policemen, continued to remain missing nearly two weeks after […]