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Prime Minister Narendra Modi departed for Japan on Sunday, May 23. His Japan visit entails attending the Quad summit. It is the second Quad summit PM Modi would attend in person. Moreover, PM Modi’s visit is a two-day affair. The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, the Quad summit, is a strategic safety discussion between India, Australia, Japan, […]
Among the various film festivals held across the globe, Cannes surely sets the benchmark where it comes to fashion and a flair for good life. Held annually at Cannes, a resort town on the French Riviera, this international film festival has become the city’s identifying event. Its Boulevard de la Croisette, curving along the coast, […]
Australia has chosen centre-left Labor Party’s Anthony Albanese as its new Prime Minister through national elections conducted on Saturday. The 59-year old leader and the key members of his team will be sworn-in on Monday. Albanese’s win means that his party defeated the ruling coalition led by Scott Morrison. Albanese, the Leader of Opposition since 2019, […]
Ever since Taliban took over Afghanistan, more and more restrictions are being imposed on the women in the country. In the latest, the Taliban government has ordered female TV anchors to cover their faces from chin up to the eyes, before appearing on TV. The Taliban’s Ministry of Broadcasting and Culture has issued threatening notices […]
Dogs are the cutest of all animals but do you know that dogs can be criminals as well? One such incident is winning people’s hearts over the internet. In Bangkok, police on Monday charged a little pup for getting lost. On 16th May, officers of Lumpini Police Station in Bangkok were informed about a lost […]
Mercedes-Benz AG has just dethroned Gruppo Ferrari SpA as the world’s most valuable car collector. Mercedes-Benz Chairman Ola Källenius confirmed that a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé sold for Rs 1,100 crore ($142 million) in a secret auction in Germany on May 5. While higher-priced transactions may have occurred privately, the car company’s sale […]
European and North-American nations have reported dozens of cases of monkeypox on Saturday. Monkeypox, a virus that passes from infected animals to humans, has been detected in many people in Europe and America. The World Health Organisation’s health officials coordinated with the nations’ governments over the new outbreak. The most recent country to report a […]
The New Development Bank (NDB) of the BRICS countries plans to inaugurate its regional office at Gujarat’s International Technology City. The regional office of NDB at GIFT city, Gandhinagar, aims to cater to the infrastructural and sustainable development needs of the BRICS nations. Moreover, the NDB Indian Regional Office would work closely with the NDB […]
Archaeologists have found a female half-skeleton in Vadnagar, the hometown of PM Narendra Modi. Interestingly, the DNA analysis and physiological ratios of the finding show that the woman could be the great-great-great-grandmother of the larger population of the town. According to Niraj Rai, the DNA of the skeleton matches the typical Gujarati population. Rai is […]
Pakistan is facing dire economic crisis, with foreign exchange reserves decreasing by US $190 million last week to stand at $10.31 billion, lowest since June 2020. this means that the central bank has just enough funds to cover less than 2 months of imports. This is a situation that no country wants to be ever, and […]
After the Russia-Ukraine war, the United States imposed sanctions on the Russian diamond producer Alrosa. However, the Surat diamond industry is in dire straits following the US sanction. In Surat, the diamond polishers, who owe loans to run their households, are trying their best to make ends meet. There is a deficit of rough diamonds […]
Cannes 2022 has officially begun and today is Day 2. From Deepika Padukone’s bohemian ensemble on Day 1 to the film lineup, here’s all you need to know. After an almost two-year hiatus (last year was a low-key, mostly virtual event), the much-anticipated Cannes Film Festival has begun. The last edition occurred in 2019. Not […]
The US Supreme Court denied an Indian man’s request to stop the deportation. The Indian citizen is facing deportation because he mistakenly ticked an option in the driver’s licence form declaring him a US citizen. According to the court documents, the petitioner, Pankajkumar Patel, entered the United States illegally with his wife, Jyotsnaben, in the […]
Elon Musk, in reply to tweet, said that the acquisition deal will not move ahead until he gets to see proof that Twitter has less than 5% of fake or spam accounts, as claimed by its CEO Parag Agrawal. Earlier Agrawal had claimed that there were less than 5% of fake accounts on the social […]
In the light of the fuel shortage, the Sri Lankan PM Ranil Wickremesinghe has advised citizens not to join lengthy fuel queues. The crisis-hit nation received a new PM on Thursday. PM Wickremesinghe addressed the nation and requested $75 million in foreign exchange to pay for essential imports. During PM Ranil’s speech, he said, “Currently, […]
The Thai government has announced plans to distribute a million cannabis plants to households across the nation next month, when most of the legal restrictions on cultivating weed at home will be lifted. In India, cannabis and its derivatives are classified into marijuana, ganja and bhang. With about a third of its labour force engaged […]
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President and ruler of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), died on Friday, according to local authorities. He was 73 years old. “The Ministry of Presidential Affairs condoles the people of the UAE, the Arab and Islamic nations, and the globe on the death of His Highness […]
Elon Musk has put his $44-billion pact for Twitter on a temporary hold on Friday, May 13, 2022. He awaits more details to fact-check that less than 5% of accounts on Twitter are spam or fake. Ever since Musk revealed his stake in the company in April, the Twitter share has declined by 17.7% to […]
Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal has assured that, besides some reshuffle in the top leadership, there will be no mass-layoffs in the company, ahead of Elon Musk takeover. He has, however, said that the company will implement some budget cuts and stop all recruitments, except those absolutely essential. The budgeting measures may mean cuting down non-labour […]
A doughnut-shaped image of a supermassive black hole lurking at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy was released by the astronomers of the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Thursday. This is the first-ever image of this Sagittarius A* or SgrA* black hole. The photo shows a doughnut-shaped dark and silent space filled with radio […]
