Federal Government Returns Indictment Against Indian Diplomat Devyani Khobragade
The U.S government has once again indicted the Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, whose recent arrest and strip search drew international attention and ignited a row and an eventual standoff between India and the United States. Khobragade faces arrest if she returns to the United States, federal prosecutors said on Friday. The new indictment comes just […]
Giant General Election Begins in India
More than 800 million eligible voters will be going to the 930,000 polling stations across the country to cast their ballot in the much awaited national election on Monday. The nine phase ballot concludes on May 12 and the votes would be counted on May 16. The ruling Congress party led by Rahul Gandhi, the […]
Powerful Earthquake Strikes Off Chilean Coast
An earthquake measuring a mighty 8.2 magnitude on Richter scale struck the coast of northern Chile late Tuesday causing small landslides, triggering a tsunami and sapping power and telephone lines. Five people died including one woman, two due to heart attacks and three crushed to death, said Interior Minister Rodrigo Penailillo. About 300 prisoners escaped […]
Nature and Environment in The Light of Quran
The emergence of humans on earth could not be viewed as sheer accidental as we look at things from the Quranic perspective. According to the Quran the creation of man is, as a matter of fact, the culmination of a well-defined divine scheme. Going further the Quran says that the entire Universe has been created […]
“Ghostbuster” Writer, Actor Harold Ramis Dies
Comedy actor, director and writer Harold Ramis, died on Monday at his suburban Chicago home after a four-year battle with an autoimmune disease, his talent agency said. Ramis, aged 69, died early Monday morning of complications from vasculitis, which causes inflammation and damage to blood vessels, said Chris Day, a spokesman at United Talent Agency. […]
Arab Summit Rejects Israel as ‘Jewish State’
Arab leaders, on Wednesday, called for a political solution to the conflict in Syria and backed the Palestinians in refusing to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Israel threatened to destabilize the US-Palestinian peace talks, said the Arab leaders in a statement issued at the conclusion of the two day Arab League summit in Bayan […]
Violence against women: Study Reveals One-third of EU women affected
A survey by the Violence against Women report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), one in three of all women in Europe have been suffering from violence in their lifetime. It says that a third of all women in the European Union have experienced either physical or sexual violence since the age […]
Amidst Anxiety Over Survival, Critiques Surge On Obama’s Interference
When he was sworn in as the first Black President of the United States, Barack Obama was celebrated as having made history and the moment was etched in the history of the United States as an erasure of the last lingering traces of racism. But the same man has recently hit the headlines for wrong […]
Obama Meets Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah
US President Barack Obama met Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah on Friday with the hopes of easing the strained relations between both the countries. Obama last travelled to the country in May 2009 just before his landmark Cairo speech where he laid out his vision for US re-engagement with Muslims and Arabs. The President stopped by […]
Kuwait MP Calls for Deportation of 1.4 Million Expats
Kuwaiti MP Dr Khalil Abdullah has called for the deportation of 280,000 expatriates per year for the next five years for resolving the imbalanced demographic in the country. “There is a critical need to find solutions for the demographic situation in Kuwait. We need to have a Kuwaiti population that is at least equal to […]
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