The United States has added Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), a regional branch of the global extremist network, to its terror blacklist on Thursday. The State Department designated AQIS a “foreign terrorist organization” and its leader, Indian-born Asim Umar, a “specially designated global terrorist.” Al-Qaeda, the jihadist movement founded by the late Osama bin […]
Pope Francis has said that Christians and the Roman Catholic Church should seek forgiveness from homosexuals for the way they had treated them. He also said that he had heard that when some Church officials had gone to Pope Benedict (the former Pope who resigned) to complain that Francis was too liberal, Pope Benedict “sent […]
CHENGDU, June 23 :A female panda called Xingya gave birth to the first pigeon pair this year on Thursday in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding told ChineseMedia on Thursday. The new borns came hot on the heels of this year’s first twin cubs, also born at the base, […]
The World Music day was initiated in 1982 by then French minister of culture, Jack Lang, when he realized through a study on the cultural habits of the French that five million people, one child out of two, played a musical instrument. He began to dream of a way to bring people out on the […]
MULTAN, PAKISTAN: It’s rare to find women throwing acid on men, but such cases of vitriolage do take place! A Pakistani woman who apparently threw acid on her boyfriend after he refused to marry her was arrested in a rare case of a woman attacking a man, Pakistani policemen said Thursday (June 16). The policemen […]
The United States government is processing an unbelievably low number of Christian refugees despite the on-going genocide at the hands of the Islamic State terror group in Iraq and Syria, the American Centre for Law and Justice reports. The conservative law group cited numbers from the Refugee Processing Centre, noting that while the U.S. has […]
DHAKA (Bangladesh) Unidentified men hacked to death a Christian grocer in Bangladesh’s north-west on Sunday (June 5), say international media reports. The numbers of attacks on religious minorities and secular activists by Islamist militants are growing. “Sunil Gomes was hacked to death at his grocery store just near a church at Bonpara village,” Shafiqul Islam, […]
The Pope wants bishops to be more diligent in confronting abuse cases. Pope Francis has approved measures to sack bishops who mishandle child sexual abuse cases, a papal decree says. Bishops who are “negligent” in dealing with priests committing abuse will be removed under the new legal procedures. The decree comes in response to long-running […]
Cassius Clay is no more. The Black Superman who ‘floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee’ has hung up his gloves forever. Former world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, whose record-setting boxing career, unprecedented flair for showmanship, and controversial stands made him one of the best known figures of the 20th century, died […]
The last week of May eventful indeed! Soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Iran, President Pranab Mukherjee made a trip to neighbouring China. These two visits show that relations with Tehran and Beijing play an important role in New Delhi’s foreign policy. India and China are rivals. They share the global stage as members […]
Kathmandu: Nepal’s energy sector is open for business. That’s the message ! The Energy Development Council with the Investment Board of Nepal and the Ministry of Energy are organising the Nepal Power Investment Summit from May 31 to June 3. The entire energy sector of Nepal will convey the message to the world that Nepal […]
When US President Barack Obama visits Hiroshima later this week, don’t expect him to apologize for the world’s first nuclear attack. Obama was clear, he would emphasize friendly ties between former enemies. But the president reiterated he would not apologize for the attack,no matter if it was horrific. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will accompany […]
