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Pakistan: The National Assembly session, which was scheduled to start at 11 a.m. (local time), will now start at 2 p.m.The National Assembly Secretariat released the order of the day for Monday, which states that the House would only discuss the election of the Prime Minister, which is governed by Article 91 of the Constitution […]
Incumbent French President Emmanuel Macron and far-right party Rassemblement Nationale’s chief Marine Le Pen emerged as the top two winners in the first round of French presidential elections held yesterday. The French elect their president every 5 years with direct voting. The first two winners of the first round fight it out in the second […]
Colombo’s sea-front saw the largest yet demonstration with thousands of people gathering to agitate against the Government’s failure in the face of Sri Lanka’s fortunes spiralling down the abyss with each passing day. The citizens of Sri Lanka, reeling under an unprecedented economic crisis brought down upon them by the mismanagement of the country by […]
After a day-long high-octane drama, Pakistan’s embattled Prime Minister Imran Khan lost the no-confidence motion vote and was ousted from his chair as Prime Minister. With this, Imran Khan became the first Prime Minister to lose his position after the no-trust motion defeat in the history of Pakistan. Also, he followed the suit of all […]
Defiant in the face of a near-certain end of the rule for his government, the Prime Minister of Pakistan was on national television yesterday to talk to the people directly. Pakistan national assembly is going to vote to decide the political fate of Imran Khan’s party in power. “I respect the Supreme Court and the […]
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted to suspend Russia from the organisation’s leading human rights body amid allegations that its soldiers killed civilians while retreating from the region around Ukraine’s capital. The United States-initiated resolution on Thursday achieved the two-thirds majority of UNGA voting members required to pass, with 93 votes cast in favour […]
Shortly after a friend of Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi left Pakistan, an image surfaced on social media, which showed her travelling in a flight with a luxury handbag. The friend, Farah Khan, left for Dubai on Sunday after being accused of corruption amid the political turmoil in the country. The photo, circulating widely on […]
Pakistan’s Supreme Court led by the Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial has passed a historic unanimous 5-0 order quashing the dissolution of the assembly and directing the No-confidence vote to take place saying “The assembly was at all times, and continues to remain, in session, as summoned by the speaker on March 20, […]
Lilly Singh is in news again. Her book “Be A Triangle,” which was released on April 6 has been lauded as much as lashed for picking up brownie points by playing the “bisexual card.” “It’s time to flip right side up. It’s time for this book title to make sense. It’s time to be a triangle.” […]
Elon Musk, now Twitter’s biggest shareholder, has been appointed to Twitter’s board of directors, according to company CEO Parag Agrawal, who announced the news today. Musk who has more than 80 million followers on Twitter from the time he joined the site in 2009, joins Agrawal, business founder Jack Dorsey, Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, and […]
Bengaluru-based keyboardist-producer Ricky Kej – who scooped up the Grammy for Best New Age Album with iconic drummer Stewart Copeland of The Police — wasn’t the only India connection in this year’s Grammy Awards on Sunday evening. Mumbai-born, New York-based singer Falguni Shah won a Grammy for the Best Children’s Album. Better known by her […]
The flamboyant cricketer of yesteryears, a goal-oriented philanthropist and a perseverant politician, Imran Khan is facing the toughest trial of his career – as Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran is facing the no-confidence motion against his government which came to power in 2018. Imran has always enjoyed cult status in Pakistan. As a magnificent cricketer […]
Amid the unprecedented economic crisis sweeping the tiny island nation, president Gotabaya Rajapaksha has declared a state of emergency after hundreds of protestors took to the street. The law invoked by the rulers gives extraordinary powers to the military forces to arrest and imprison suspects for a long period without trial. Facing the worst ever […]
When Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is on a two-day visit to India, US Deputy NSA Daleep Singh, an Indian origin American has said from the soil of New Delhi that the US would not like to see a rapid acceleration of India’s imports of energy and other commodities from Russia. He was replying to […]
Ahead of the no-confidence motion’s resolution due today on Thursday, March 31, the Imran Khan government lost its majority in the National Assembly in Pakistan on Wednesday. Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led coalition government was reduced to 164 lawmakers in the 342-member National Assembly after a key ally of the PTI – Muttahida […]
In recent weeks, the U.K. has seen a spike in Norovirus cases. Approximately 400 beds are currently occupied in the two National Health Service (NHS) Trusts as patients show symptoms of Norovirus. Norovirus, also known as the winter vomiting bug, has been at lower levels than average throughout the pandemic, but as people have begun […]
Recently, fires broke out in the forest surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. Satellite imagery taken by the European Space Agency showed at least seven fires burning within the plant’s exclusion zone and Ukrainian officials warned that it would be difficult to put them out because the area is controlled by Russian troops. Environmental damage has […]
Actor Will Smith’s physically abused comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars stage for a joke the latter cracked about Smith’s wife. Now, Jada Pinkett Smith does not wear a cropped hair look. She suffers from a health condition where the immune system has failed, better known as an “autoimmune disorder.” In Jada’s case, the body’s […]
The year 2022 will be a record-breaking year for lunar missions. In some cases, orbiters will begin searching for prospective resources, while some will make their initial landing on the lunar south pole. A fleet of rovers will also scurry around the Moon’s surface. Several of these missions are part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload […]
Recently, China is witnessing the re-emergence of Omicron driven Covid-19 cases in many of its cities. Due to increased growth in the daily cases of Covid-19 in Shanghai, China, the government has imposed a phased lockdown in the city. Shanghai on Sunday recorded a total of 4,500 fresh Covid-19 cases, which is an increase of […]
