A day after Parveen Amanullah, the first Muslim woman minister in Bihar, resigned as social welfare minister and from the ruling Janata Dal (United), she said she will not reconsider her decision. “There is no question of taking back my resignation,” Amanullah told media persons here Wednesday after she met Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at […]
Three days ahead of Narendra Modi’s visit to Assam, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Wednesday lashed out at the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, saying Modi sidelined other leaders of his party with his “dictatorial attitude”. “Modi has a dictatorial attitude. He is projecting himself as if it’s a one-man show in the Bharatiya Janata Party. He […]
The Election Commission of Thailand Wednesday announced that voter turnout nationwide in the Feb 2 general elections was 46.79 percent, excluding the nine provinces where voting was cancelled. The election commission said as many as 20.1 million out of 43.024 million eligible voters exercised their voting right in 68 provinces where voting was not disrupted […]
For all those frequent or not-so-frequent air travellers, what about some conversation up in the sky that can lead you to a date, even to make a little turbulence in the lavatory? You heard it right. Here comes an in-flight app that promises to let you meet fellow passengers on your flight while you’re still […]
The shortage of Indian workers has forced around 400 jewellery workshops in Saudi Arabia to shut down with 100 others struggling to survive. “We now have 100 gold workshops that employ about 5,000 foreign workers, but there are very few skilled workers in the industry following the labour ministry’s decision to reduce the quota to […]
The UN has denounced the Vatican for “systematically” adopting policies which enabled priests to sexually abuse thousands of children, BBC reported Wednesday. The Holy See must “immediately remove” all clergy who are known or suspected child abusers, said the UN watchdog for children’s rights. It heavily criticised the Vatican’s attitudes towards homosexuality, contraception and abortion, […]
The Taliban are fighting for the implementation of the Islamic law, namely Sharia, which has been violated by Pakistan’s political leadership, a member of the committee nominated by the Taliban for talks with the government said Wednesday, Geo News reported. A decision over the meeting with the government committee will be made after consultations with […]
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Wednesday slammed the idea of a Third Front and said it should be “rejected” as the concept would make India “third grade”. “Third Front will make India third grade and we need to reject them forever. Those talking about the Third Front in Delhi should come here and see […]
The BJP Wednesday made common cause with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, saying her demand for a three-year moratorium on interest on central loans was justified. “The Left Front has left the state in financial ruin with a huge loan burden. Mamata demanded a three-year moratorium on interest payment. But the UPA (United Progressive […]
Supermodel Kate Moss, who recently joined British Vogue as the contributing fashion editor, did her first shoot for the March issue of the fashion magazine. Moss hand-picked Ukrainian-Canadian model Daria Werbowy for the cover of the magazine that has been photographed by partners Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, reports eonline.com. The look is inspired by […]