In the 1990s, an eighteen-year-old headed to Australia to realize his worldly dreams. With little money or support, he strived to make ends meet. Two years later, he was earning an annual income of $250,000; by the age of twenty-six, he was a multimillionaire. Yet, worldly success was merely a way station on a journey […]
New storms were expected to hit South Australia on Thursday after thunderstorms left the entire state without electricity for several hours. A low pressure system will continue to affect the south-central region of Australia after South Australia was hit on Wednesday by winds of up to 140 km per hour, knocking over more than 20 […]
Driving licences application in Uttar Pradesh would be made online from October 1, an official said on Thursday. While in Lucknow, the online process is the only option, for the other 74 districts the manual process might continue for some time. All Regional Transport Office’s (RTO) were asked to comply with the new system without […]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s spokesman has refused to be drawn into a controversy over whether India and Pakistan were “getting ready to go to war”, saying he would only reiterate earlier statements that called for dialogue between the two nations. Asked by a reporter on Wednesday if Ban had spoken to Prime Ministers Narendra […]
The US State Department has agreed to process for public release before the November 9 election almost 3,000 pages of Democratic nominee Hillary Clintons emails recovered by the FBI during their recent probe. A federal judge previously ordered the State to review 1,050 pages of the Clinton messages before the election. The deal that State […]
Setting up of CCTVs will be made compulsory for Goa’s beach shacks for safety and security of tourists, Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar said. Paruelkar told IANS that the 353 beach shacks will be awarded licences, only if they install CCTVs in their premises as per the newly drafted beach shack policy, which is awaiting the […]
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday decided to ratify the Paris agreement on climate change. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “Today the cabinet has decided to ratify Paris agreement,” Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar told reporters here. Modi had announced during the BJP national council […]
Indicating a whopping demand-supply mismatch, a new study released here on Wednesday has revealed that over a million Indians fail to get a seat every day on the Indian Railways due to unavailability of tickets. The study by RailYatri.in portal said that though the demand-supply gap on long-distance trains is well known since long, but […]
The 19th Saarc Summit to be held in Pakistan in November has been postponed. With India’s decision to pull out from the summit on Tuesday followed by Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan, the November 9-10 summit automatically stands postponed or cancelled. The formal announcement of the postponement will be made later by the Kathmandu-based Saarc Secretariat, […]
Following the diplomatic blitzkrieg launched by New Delhi, Pakistan is virtually getting isolated in the region with Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan joining India in boycotting the annual Saarc Summit scheduled to be hosted by Islamabad in November. “Due to increased level of violence and fighting as a result of imposed terrorism on Afghanistan, President of […]