U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address a joint meeting of Congress when he visits the U.S. capital in June. India has not announced the PM’s visit yet, but Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar is in Washington to finalise the agenda of the visit that is reportedly at the behest of U.S. President Barack Obama. Making […]
» Read moreChina, Russia and India are among 11 countries targeted by the Obama administration for leaving American producers of music, movies and other copyrighted material open to rampant piracy. The US is placing the 11 countries on a “priority watch list” that subjects them to extra scrutiny and could lead to sanctions if the US brings cases to the World Trade […]
» Read moreThis goat born with the face of a human baby has provoked a bidding war as people desperately tried to buy it from the farmer it belonged to. The newborn sadly did not live for long after its birth but it didn’t stop some from wanting to buy the carcass of the so-called fawn – the mythical fusion of goat […]
» Read moreHundreds of flights have been cancelled in Germany after government workers started short-term strikes affecting eight cities’ airports ahead of a new round of wage negotiations. Nearly 400 flights at Frankfurt airport alone were cancelled Wednesday morning after airport fire-fighters walked off the job. Public-sector workers doing ground handling, security checks and other jobs were also participating in the strikes […]
» Read moreThe historic agreement on climate change on Friday marked a milestone, with a record 175 countries, including India, signing it. But world leaders made ot clear that more action is needed, and quickly, to fight a relentless rise in global temperatures. With the planet heating up to record levels, sea levels rising and glaciers melting, the pressure to have the […]
» Read moreA pall of gloom descended on Karukutty near Angamaly on Thursday as the news about the brutal murder of Chikku Robert, a nurse in Oman, reached her parents. Relatives and friends thronged the Thekkayil Airoorkkaran house to console Robert and his wife Saby, parents of the deceased. Chikku, a staff nurse with Badr Al Samaa Group of Hospitals, Salalah, had […]
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