By Jaideep Sarin Bangkok A ‘Spice Library’ with traditional condiments from all corners of India, Mumbai’s famous ‘Dabbawalas’, an Indian mixology concept at the bar to fire up your drinks and a restroom where you can hear the lively noises of Delhi’s famous Chandini Chowk area – all of this and more are on offer […]
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Khaleda Zia was freshly charged in two cases over violence during last yearÂ’s blockade violence in Dhaka. The former prime minister was named as the instigator of violence in the two chargesheets filed at DhakaÂ’s Chief Metropolitan MagistrateÂ’s Court on Sunday, bdnews24 reported. Metropolitan Magistrate Imdadul Haque set May 31 […]
Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton narrowly defeated Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo after an epic battle to win the Monaco Grand Prix here on Sunday. Hamilton clocked 1 hour 59.29 minutes, ahead of Ricciardo by 7.252 seconds. Force India’s Sergio Perez came in third, his sixth career podium, ahead of Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel. Fernando Alonso secured McLaren’s best […]
An angry anti-fascist activist on Saturday threw a creamy chocolate cake at a top official of Germany’s Left Party at a party congress. He said the action was prompted by the politician’s anti-refugee stance. RT online reported that Sahra Wagenknecht, an outspoken leader of Die Linke’s parliamentary faction, was targeted by an activist who threw […]
The Punjabi American Heritage Society of Yuba City and various Sikh temples in California will honour Vishwa Mitra Tandon, a journalist whose investigative reporting brought to light the killing of 11 Sikhs in fake encounters by UP Police in Pilibhit district in 1991. Tandon will be honoured this weekend at multiple ceremonies in Yuba City […]
Attorneys for Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman said they filed a motion challenging the govenment’s decision to authorise his extradition to the US. Attorneys Juan Pablo Badillo Soto and Jose Luis Gonzalez Meza held a press conference on Friday to announce that they submitted the motion on Thursday, EFE news reported. The case […]
Taking connectivity to a new high, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will speak with three astronauts currently living and working aboard the International Space Station on June 1, NASA said in a statement. Yoo too could watch the Earth-to-space call live on NASA’s Facebook page. During the 20-minute Facebook Live video call with NASA […]
With the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) set to have a meeting in June, the US said that it hopes Pakistan understands India’s use of peaceful civil nuclear energy. “This is not about an arms race and it’s not about nuclear weapons,” Mark C. Toner, deputy spokesperson in the US State Department, said at his daily […]
Israel’s Environmental Protection Minister Avi Gabbay resigned from his post on Friday amid the recent addition of Avigdor Lieberman’s ultranationalist party to the coalition. The resignation of Gabbay, a member of the centre Kulanu party, comes in the wake of recent appointment of Lieberman, a known hawk, as the defence minister. Gabbay in a statement […]
The second and final day of the G7 leaders summit began on Friday in Japan’s Ise-Shima, where they are expected to adopt a strategy to promote economic growth and an anti-terrorism action plan. The leaders of Germany, Canada, the US, France, Italy, Japan and Britain began meetings in which they will seek to solidify the […]