China on Wednesday announced its five new leaders who will join President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang in the elite Politburo Standing Committee which rules the world’s most populous country of 1.3 billion. A day after the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) ended, Xi Jinping, re-elected the party […]
Keeping the heat on Pakistan and with an eye on a rapidly-rising China, India and the US on Wednesday said that Islamabad should immediately take steps to finish the terror organisations and terrorist safe havens on its soil and also agreed to work together for security in the Indo-Pacific region. Visiting US Secretary of State […]
The powerful Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday entered the league of China’s greats Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping as the Communist Party incorporated his political thought into its constitution. On the last day of the week-long 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), nearly 2,300 delegates at the Soviet-style Great Hall […]
China said on Monday that a sovereign country is treaty bound to protect foreign diplomats, a day after reports emerged that Beijing fears a terror attack on its newly appointed envoy to Pakistan. According to media reports in Pakistan, the Chinese Embassy has requested the Pakistani government to increase security for its ambassador. The Chinese […]
Facebook has acquired ‘tbh’, an anonymous polling app for teenagers which has over 5 million downloads and 2.5 million daily active users in the US. The app lets teenagers anonymously answer kind-hearted, multiple-choice questions about friends, who then receive the poll results as compliments, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday. “When we set out to build tbh, […]
SoftBank’s multi-billion-dollar investment into ridesharing app Uber will be finalised “very likely in the next week” Uber board member Arianna Huffington has said. Uber’s board voted earlier in October to approve the Japanese tech conglomerate’s cash infusion, which would add six more board seats and annul super-voting shares held by former CEO Travis Kalanick among […]
In yet another interstellar feat, scientists at the LIGO detectors and the world over detected the first “ripples in space” or gravitational waves produced by the merger of two ancient remnants of stars known as neutron stars. The neutron stars merged in a galaxy called NGC 4993, located about 130 million light years from Earth […]
California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a state senate bill, allowing a gender-neutral marker on birth certificates and driver’s licenses starting from 2019. California thus became the first state in the US to allow a “nonbinary” gender to be marked on birth certificates, Xinhua news agency reported. The so-called “nonbinary” gender means not exclusively male […]
Several hideouts of the Yemen-based al-Qaeda branch were hit by a series of airstrikes launched by US drones in the central province of al-Bayda, a military official said. “The American unmanned aircrafts struck training camps and arms caches of the al-Qaeda terrorist group in different mountainous villages of al-Bayda province with more than 12 airstrikes,” […]
US President Donald Trump has said that pulling his government out of the nuclear pact with Iran is a very real possibility. “I feel strongly about what I did. I’m tired of being taken advantage of as a nation,” Trump told the press on Monday during a Cabinet meeting, Efe news reported. “We’ll see what […]