Gaza, July 26 (IANS) At least eight people were killed and 10 injured Saturday in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip, taking the toll in Gaza since the beginning of an Israeli offensive July 8 to 878. On Saturday, eight people, including four children, died in their house in the southern Gaza Strip city of […]
Title: The Half Mother; Author: Shahnaz Bashir; Publisher: Hachette; Pages: 182; Price: Rs.295. There are many untold stories from the Kashmir Valley, and the ones that have been told are merely a dot in the vast expanse of lives permanently scarred with haunted memories, bitter experiences and mournful ambiguities. In between this unknown space is […]
I was so outraged when an American friend said that Asian males were kind of “girly” that I almost hit him with my shoulder bag. But instead I just gave him a cold stare and turned back to my Hello Kitty collection. Westerners have bizarre ideas about gender. A recent book said that the original […]
Dubai, July 22 (IANS) Researchers have detected genetic fragments of deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in the air of a barn housing a camel infected with the virus. MERS is a serious viral respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus and can be transmitted by air to humans. For the study, researchers collected three air […]
Phnom Penh, July 4 (IANS) The Thai military junta has released 14 Cambodian migrant workers imprisoned last month for holding fake work visas, Cambodia’s foreign ministry said Friday. “Thai authorities released them after they determined that the workers were also victims because their brokers made fake documents for them,” Xinhua quoted a ministry spokesman as saying. […]
Damascus, July 4 (IANS) The Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria(ISIS) captured the biggest oil field in eastern Syria Thursday, according to human rights activists. The Al Qaeda splinter group seized al-Omar oil field, the biggest oil field in Syria’s eastern province of Deir al-Zour, after the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front withdrew from the field, […]
Dar es Salaam, July 3 (IANS) The acting Libyan ambassador to Tanzania, Ismail Nwairat, committed suicide Tuesday afternoon, Tanzanian government announced Wednesday. A statement issued by Tanzanian ministry of foreign affairs and international cooperation said Nwairat shot himself to death in his office, Xinhua reported. “Information we have received from the Libyan embassy said Nwairat shot […]
Kathmandu, July 3 (IANS) The Nepal government has for the first time set a minimum limit for the amount under foreign aid, government officials said here Wednesday. Endorsing the new Development Cooperation Policy-2014 this week, the government also has introduced a minimum amount for foreign grants, soft and commercial loans from the country’s development partners, Xinhua […]
Nairobi, June 20 (IANS) Kenya’s Olympic 800m champion David Rudisha has confirmed he will only compete in two more Diamond League races in Monaco and Glasgow before heading to the Commonwealth Games in Scotland. “It is good to get back in form and win a competition,” said Rudisha here Thursday, reports Xinhua. “As I said, getting […]
A meditative walk by the riverside to dipping your feet into the Ganges to river rafting – enjoy all this and much more at the Ganga Kinare boutique hotel on the banks of the holy river in Rishikesh, internationally popular as a yoga hub, which is now becoming a hot spot for adventure sports. If […]