With less than two months to go before the world’s top athletes and hundreds of thousands of sport lovers head to Rio de Janeiro for Olympics 2016, the city’s image has taken a severe beating with a gang-rape of a 16-year-old girl by more than 30 men in an impoverished favela (slum) of the city. The girl’s nightmare began last […]
» Read moreAt least 17 girls aged between five and 12 were killed and several reported missing in a fire that swept through the dormitory of a private school for children of hill tribes in northern Thailand, police said today. Five school girls were reported injured in the fire which broke out at the two-storey building of Pithakkiart Witthaya School in Chiang […]
» Read morePrime Minister Narendra Modi assured Sri Lanka of all help in dealing with the devastation caused by cyclone ‘Roanu’ even as India is dispatching two Navy ships and an Air Force transport aircraft to Colombo with relief material to assist its southern neighbour. “We stand resolutely to help the Government and people of Sri Lanka. Assistance being rushed on emergency […]
» Read moreWith a three-day-long spell of heavy rains over Sri Lanka coming to an end on Wednesday, the toll due to floods and landslides went up to 37. The authorities recovered 17 bodies during the day, including 14 in Aranayake of the Kegalle district, where several families were feared buried in a landslide on Tuesday night. On the damages caused by […]
» Read moreThe French government plans to allow divorce by mutual consent to proceed without a judge, to simplify and accelerate the process. Details are to be discussed at the lower house of Parliament during a debate starting on Tuesday on a bill to modernise the country’s justice system. Family associations have expressed fears that the best interests of children would not […]
» Read moreA 37-year-old man has admitted in court that he ripped off a Muslim woman’s hijab on board a flight in the United States after screaming “Take it off! This is America!.” Gill Parker Payne of Gastonia, from North Carolina, pleaded guilty in a New Mexico federal court to a misdemeanour hate crime charge of using force to intentionally obstruct the […]
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