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Diwali or Deepawali, the Hindu Festival of lights, signifying the victory of luminescence over darkness, good over evil has gone global in today’s ever shrinking world. The Indian diaspora, especially Gujaratis and Punjabis, present in every corner on earth since centuries have been celebrating this festival of joy, believed to have started with the God […]
President Joe Biden is supposed to be committed to reducing gas emissions, but when he produced a little natural gas of his own at the COP26 summit, It made the Duchess of Cornwall blush. Reportedly on Sunday, Camilla was taken aback to hear Biden ‘break wind’ as they made polite small talk at the global […]
The people who have recently recovered from Covid and want to travel abroad who will now be allowed to enter the US from Monday, November 8 on some conditions. The US Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) issued a statement on Friday night stating that from November 8, 2021, onwards all non-US citizens and non-US immigrants […]
UK is now the first country in the world to approve an oral antiviral that can be taken at home for Covid. US drug companies Merck, Sharp and Dohme (MSD) and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics developed Molnupiravir, the first antiviral medication for Covid which can be taken as a pill rather than injected or given intravenously. The […]
Citing that Pegasus spyware sold to foreign governments has been used to target government officials, journalists and others, the U.S. Commerce Department has blacklisted Israel’s NSO Group. While NSO maintains it only sells its products to law enforcement and intelligence agencies, it has been accused of selling hacking tools to authoritarian regimes around the world. […]
South African author Damon Galgut has been awarded the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel “The Promise.” In his acceptance speech at the award ceremony in London on Wednesday, the 58-year-old Capetown-based author said, “This has been a great year for African writing. I would like to accept this award on behalf of all the […]
Fifteen-year-old Vinisha Umashankar, one of the finalists of Prince Williams Earth shot Prize, delivered an impactful speech at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow on climate change. She urged the world leaders, business leaders, international organizations as well as civil society to just stop the talks and begin with the implementation “We have every […]
Social Media giant Facebook made an announcement on Tuesday that it plans to shut its face recognition system amid growing security concerns from the users as well as regulators. “Facebook will no longer automatically recognise people’s faces in photos or videos” – read a blog post by Facebook’s parent company, Meta. It said that it […]
The Snapchatters will soon have to the option to make their stories even more interesting that before. The company recently reached a deal with the NCBUniversal that will bring audion clips from hit movies and TV shows like Bridesmaids, The Office, Parks and Recreation, SNL and many more to the platform. Along with music, Snapchatters […]
World Leaders from more than 120 countries are attending the UN’s 26TH COP Summit including our Prime Minister, Narendra Modi in the Scottish city, Glasgow. Conference of Parties (COP-26) has begun on 31 October 2021 and will continue till 12 November 2021. The high-level segment of COP-26 to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate […]
The Director of the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), David Beasley tweeted on October 26 that emphasised the 36 billion dollar increase in Elon Musk’s net worth and how one-sixth of the increase could save about 42 million people suffering from famine. The tweet was met by an assertive reply from Elon Musk, the world’s […]
During a recent interview with PEOPLE, Kal Penn – an actor and the most eligible Indian-American actor revealed his engagement with his partner Josh after 11 years of relationship. “I discovered my own sexuality relatively late in life compared to many other people. There’s no timeline on this stuff. People figure their s— out at […]
Scientific advances have taken over almost every sector in the world, so much so that now humans have figured a way of growing vegetables in space as well. Nasa astronauts aboard the International Space Station have finally tasted the first chilli peppers that they have been growing the crop in space for the last four […]
Japan’s Princess Mako recently got married to a commoner Kei Kumoro after a years-long relationship. While some of the netizens were not happy with the decision and protested against the marriage, the couple seems to be happy and rather unaffected by the netizens’ scrutiny. As per the law, a woman wanting to marry a commoner […]
It may be the most populous Muslim country in the world today, Hinduism seems to have flourished in Indonesia in ancient times. The names of the people of Indonesia also bear the touch of Hindu culture., Sukarno, the first president’s name rings the bell as Sanskrit Sukarno. His daughter is also known as Sukarnoputri. The […]
After a years-long engagement with her college sweetheart, Princess Mako has finally tied knots with a “commoner” and lost her royal status as under Japanese law, female imperial family members have to leave their family status if they decide to marry a commoner. While she skipped the royal wedding, she also refused to take a […]
At 67, Angela Merkel, consecutively fourth time serving Chancellor of Germany chooses not to run for the fifth time. This sentence alone manages to capture the essence of personality of this remarkable woman, at the helm of the biggest economy in Europe at most crucial of times. In November 2018, Merkel stepped down as leader […]
The fully vaccinated Canadians will soon be able to download a vaccine passport that will facilitate international travel. They will now have to show a provincially issued vaccine passport with a machine-readable QR code and the familiar Canada wordmark with a maple leaf while travelling abroad or boarding trains. The officials said that they are […]
BEIJING: Covid seems to back again with full force, knocking on our doors. On Thursday, October 20, 2021, authorities in China cancelled hundreds of flights, shut schools and ramped up mass testing to try and stamp out a new Covid-19 outbreak linked to a group of tourists.Beijing has maintained a relentless zero-Covid approach with strict border […]
Much in the same way as Google did with “Alphabet”, Facebook is planning it’s journey towards becoming metaverse with different name where Facebook would be just one product along with many products such as Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more under a parent company. The idea signals the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more […]
