The Archbishop of Lahore has expressed hope that Asia Bibi may get justice saying: “We’re all praying and hoping that she will get justice and be released. The case against her is very weak and fragile…” He said this during his tour to the UK which was intended to highlight the plight of persecuted Christians. […]
GUWAHATI: – A former college lecturer who helped create over 15,000 jobs across the north-east by training youths to become entrepreneurs has won an award from the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. Neichute Doulo, a former lecturer in Economics at Baptist College in Nagaland, won the ‘Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2016’ given by […]
Elena Mikhailovna is an 89-year-old Russian pensioner from the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk and she’s not your average grandma. Granny Lena, as she refers to herself, has recently become popular on Russian media for her active traveller life-style, having already visited several European and Asian countries. In an interview to Sputnik Vietnam, Elena Mikhailovna revealed […]
GUWAHATI – On Sunday, Assam remembered the victims of the October 30, 2008 serial blasts with memorial events across the State. Hundreds of people joined the memorial services as they paid homage to those whose lives were cut short by what has been the worst terrorist attack in the State till date. Around hundred people […]
Sir The Nitish Kumar government appears to be using liquor and the prohibition ‘law’ to settle political scores. It is really illogical. Over one thousand ex-servicemen have been arrested under these draconian and illogical laws. Look at the new decision of Nitish Government to allow consumption and possession of liquor in cantonment areas and air […]
Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination anniversary programme will not be held at Shakti Sthal this year as it is closed in view of bird flu scare, the Congress said in a statement. Indira Gandhi’s death anniversary is observed on October 31, 2016. “Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s martyrdom day programme on October 31 will […]
He’s one of the world’s best known modern crooners, but who would believe that nobody wanted to sign Canadian singer Michael Buble because they thought his kind of music ‘old fashioned? Michael Buble has revealed how he went from bank to bank to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to persuade a music executive to sign […]
Tens of thousands of people sashayed through the streets of Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, to participate in Asia’s biggest gay pride parade. Many of those who attended carried placards calling on the government to legalise same sex marriage. Dressed in colourful costumes and carrying rainbow flags, they paraded in front of Taiwan’s presidential palace. Taiwan is more […]
Colombo: Want an international degree in Environmental Sciences? Good News! The NSBM Green University, South Asia’s first green university was declared open by Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (October 26). The NSBM Green University, equipped with modern facilities has been built as a university town at a 26 acre land […]
The Spirit will be back in the Army posts of Bihar. Cantonment areas, military and air force stations in Bihar, which had gone dry after total prohibition was clamped, will get back their liquor licences. The Bihar government has decided to renew liquor licences for their canteens for the financial year 2016-17 in “the interest […]
Beware of quacks posing as ‘doctors’! A self-styled doctor and three of his patients died in a south Indian village after drinking a poisonous herbal medicine which he claimed cured diabetes and hypertension, officials said on Tuesday (Oct 25). Another patient is in a critical condition at a government-run hospital after they drank the concoction […]
On 3 March 2016 a retired Indian Naval Commander Kulbhushan Yadav was arrested in Pakistan on charges of illegal entry into the country via Iran. The arrest was made near the border region of Chaman. Twenty six days later, on March 29, Civilian and military leaders presented to the media in Islamabad his video confession […]