Following the criticism against Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for meeting and honouring a veteran of a Nazi division, Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota issued an apology to the Jewish community on Sunday. The apology came after Canada’s Leader of Opposition Pierre Poilievre pointed out Trudeau’s “appalling error in judgment”.Trudeau met with […]
Till May last year, 19-year-old Gurkirat Singh was representing Chandigarh in hockey national championships with a hope to make it to the Indian squad. However, destiny has something else to offer as within a span of 15 months the ace striker becomes an important part of the United States of America (USA) hockey. And, will […]
India on Wednesday scripted history with the successful soft landing of its lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 on the south pole region of the Moon. With this achievement, India has become the first country to land on the Moon’s challenging south pole region.The space agency Isro announced the landing and wrote, “‘India, I reached my destination and […]
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed killing all on board, Russia’s civil aviation authority has said.Earlier, Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported the Embraer aircraft was shot down by air defences in the Tver region, north of Moscow.The jet, which was flying from the capital to St […]
United States President Joe Biden will visit India from September 7 to 10 for the G-20 Leaders’ Summit in Delhi. Biden will discuss a range of global issues during the summit, such as a clean energy transition, climate change, the impacts of the Ukraine war, and boosting the capabilities of multilateral development banks, including the […]
Distributors of a contaminated Indian cough syrup that killed 65 children in Uzbekistan paid local officials a bribe of $33,000 to skip mandatory testing, Uzbek state prosecutors alleged during a trial on Wednesday.The Central Asian nation put 21 people on trial – 20 of whom are Uzbeks and one Indian – over the deaths last […]
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft was back chatting it up on Friday after flight controllers corrected a mistake that had led to weeks of silence.Hurtling ever deeper into interstellar space billions of miles away, Voyager 2 stopped communicating two weeks ago. Controllers sent the wrong command to the 46-year-old spacecraft and tilted its antenna away from […]
The Supreme Court in Australia’s Queensland state has overturned a law banning Sikh religious dagger (kirpan) on school grounds calling it “unconstitutional”.The ruling by the state’s highest court came after Kamaljit Kaur Athwal took the state government to court last year, claiming that the ban discriminated against the kirpan — one of five religious symbols […]
Singapore hanged a third prisoner in two weeks on Thursday for drug trafficking despite calls for the city-state to halt capital punishment for drug-related crimes.The Central Narcotics Bureau said Mohamed Shalleh Abdul Latiff, a 39-year-old Singaporean, was executed at Singapore’s Changi Prison after being accorded due process under the law. He was sentenced to death […]
Vladimir Putin hoped to project strength by posing shirtless on a horse. Donald Trump, imagining himself even stronger, pasted his face onto images of Sylvester Stallone’s rippling torso.But when Joe Biden ditched his shirt Sunday, he apparently just wanted to catch a few rays.A picture taken of the 80-year-old US president sunning himself shirtless on […]