Costa Brava The Costa Brava, a coastal region of Catalonia in northeastern Spain, is popular for its pristine beaches and bays against the scenic backdrop of heavily wooded hills. One of the most stunning coastlines in the country, this unexplored region is only a 2-hour drive from Catalonia’s culture-soaked capital of Barcelona and just a […]
In a pleasant surprise to fellow passengers, visiting Swedish royal couple King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia arrived in India on board an Air India commercial flight from Stockholm, and carried their own bags after landing at the airport here on Monday. “Very Proud moment for Air India when we had a Special Guest […]
More than 300 Donald Trump ads have been pulled by Google and its video-sharing platform YouTube for violating the companies’ policies. The campaign videos, notably, ran over the summer. This comes at a time when handling political advertisements on social media has become a growing concern as the 2020 US presidential election approaches and tech […]
According to early results, Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement has made unprecedented gains in the district council elections, media reports said on Monday. In the figures put out till now, pro-democracy candidates have won 278 seats as against pro-Beijing candidates 42. Hong Kong’s district councillors have little political power and mainly deal with local issues such […]
After swearing-in as the seventh Executive President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa stressed that Sri Lanka wants to stay out of conflicts among the world powers and would remain neutral in its foreign policy. “We will maintain friendly and cordial relationship with all the nations and we don’t want to be caught between power struggles […]
The UN is “very appreciative” of India’s donation of the Gandhi Solar Park and is using the electricity it generates, according to Farhan Haq, the deputy spokesman for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. “We are using solar panels. As you know, India had donated that, and we’re very appreciative for the donation,” he said at a daily […]
Indian-origin Labour MP Keith Vaz has announced that he would not seek re-election in the UK’s December 12 general election after being handed a six-month suspension from the House of Commons over allegations that he “expressed willingness” to purchase cocaine for others. Vaz resigned on Sunday evening after 32 years as an MP for Leicester […]
Nikki Haley, the first and only Indian-American to attain the status of a member of the US cabinet has shared a piece of advice from her mother that propelled the child of Sikh immigrants to the high office: “Your job is not to show them how you’re different. Your job is to show them how […]
Unicef Executive Director Henrietta Fore has warned that air pollution toxicity can affect children’s brain development and called for urgent action to deal with the crisis gripping India and South Asia. “I saw first-hand how children continue to suffer from the dire consequences of air pollution,” Fore, who recently visited India, said on Wednesday. “The […]
US President Donald Trump has threatened to cut federal funding for the wildfires raging across California, in a Twitter spat with the state’s Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom. Nearly 100,000 acres have been destroyed by wildfires in recent weeks, and thousands have been forced from their homes. Although there were no reports of any casualties so […]