Florida Governor Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency in the US state as a rapidly growing Category 4 hurricane named Irma wass expected to make landfall later this week, the media reported. “Hurricane Irma poses a severe threat to the entire State of Florida and requires that timely precautions are taken to protect […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday hailed the Belt and Road project at a BRICS forum here, saying that the initiative has received a good response. India has opposed Xi’s ambitious project, the artery of which — China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) — passes through a part of Kashmir held by Pakistan. Speaking at the […]
The US is considering stopping “all trade” with any country doing business with North Korea, US President Donald Trump has said in a tweet. The US President’s threat on Sunday came after North Korea’s official media has announced that the country had successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb capable of being carried by an intercontinental ballistic […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said although “radical Islamists” are perpetrating acts of terror in Europe, she still believed that “Islam belongs to Germany”. Merkel made the remarks on Sunday at the TV duel with Martin Schulz, chancellor candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), her major rival in the upcoming federal elections, as refugee […]
Governor Greg Abbott of the US state of Texas has said the bill for reconstruction after Hurricane Harvey could be as high as $180 billion. He said on Sunday the damage was worse than that caused by Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005, BBC reported. Meanwhile, the head of the government’s disaster management […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has won the single pre-election televised debate against her opponent Martin Schulz ahead of the national elections on September 24, a poll said. According to the surveys conducted on Sunday by two of Germany’s public TV channels, 55 per cent of the respondents found Merkel more convincing while 35 per cent […]
Nirmala Sitharaman is now a member of a powerful sisterhood of 16 female defence ministers, in a sign of rising women empowerment in an overwhelmingly male-dominated arena. Sitharaman, who got the portfolio on Sunday, heads the world’s third largest defence force of 1.4 million personnel. It is also the strongest of those headed by female […]
By Porisma P. Gogoi Bath (UK) “I like our situation very much,” wrote English novelist Jane Austen in a letter to her sister Cassandra describing the profound impact that Bath had upon her first visit. Better known as the city of spas, Bath, embellished with Roman and Georgian-styled buildings and the river Avon flowing across, […]
By Kishori Sud New Delhi Indians may be getting increasingly experimental with their food palate, but they mostly picture only a sushi roll or tempura in their head when asked about Japanese cuisine, says Japanese chef Masaharu Morimoto, who has had a culinary relationship with India for almost 15 years. But he doesn’t mind. Known […]
Russia has been given two days to close its consulate in San Francisco as well as diplomatic annexes in Washington and New York, the US State Department has said. The move comes in response to the Kremlin’s decision last July to order the US to reduce by 755 the number of diplomats and diplomatic personnel […]