New York [US], October 3 (ANI): Commemorating Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi’s 152nd birth anniversary, UNGA 76the session’s President Abdulla Shahid on Saturday said that he taught us there’s nothing cowardly about non-violence. Speaking at a virtual commemoration organised by India’s Permanent Mission to UN on Saturday, Shahid emphasised, “It is not by chance […]
LONDON, England: After a fourth day of long lines and closures at gas stations caused by panic buying, the British Army has been put on standby to help ease fuel supply problems affecting the UK, with up to 150 military tanker drivers preparing to deliver petrol. Despite fuel supplies being plentiful at refineries, fears of […]
BOSTON, Massachusetts: Instead of being forced to become vaccinated against COVID-19, many Massachusetts state troopers have chosen to resign, union officials said. Governor Charlie Baker gave executive department employees until 17th October to provide proof of vaccinations, a decision the State Police Association of Massachusetts attempted to block in court. In a statement after their […]
European gas prices have smashed yet another record, adjusting to almost $115 per megawatt-hour in household terms, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) data showed. At the opening of trading on Friday, November futures on the TTF hub in the Netherlands reached $1199.44 per 1,000 cubic meters for the first time in history, after breaching the $1,000 threshold […]
WASHINGTON D.C.: According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), murders in the U.S. rose by 30 percent from 2019 to 2020, the steepest-ever one-year increase. The agency’s annual Uniform Crime Report, released earlier this week, detailed how more than 21,000 homicides were reported last year, reaching its peak during the summer of the COVID-19 […]
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 30 (ANI): Makers of the Vicky Kaushal-starrer ‘Sardar Udham’ have dropped the powerful first trailer of the patriotic film on Thursday. Directed by Shoojit Sircar, the film is a biopic on freedom fighter Sardar Udham Singh, who assassinated Michael O’Dwyer in 1940. He assassinated the former Lieutenant Governor of Punjab in […]
Washington [US], September 30 (ANI): During the classified hearing with Senators on Wednesday, the top Pentagon officials said that the US is in talks with countries that border Afghanistan about housing “over the horizon” counterterrorism operations that would allow the US military to more easily surveil and strike targets in the Taliban-controlled country. Those sites […]
ROME, Italy: Rome is currently struggling with an invasion of garbage-eating wild boars, as groups of 10 to 30 animals becoming a daily sight in the city. Increasingly, boars of all sizes emerge from the large parks surrounding the city and walk down its traffic-clogged streets in search of food from overflowing garbage bins. Fed-up […]
LOS ANGELES, California: Former Southern California pastor Kent R.E. Whitney was sentenced this week to 14 years in federal prison for masterminding a church-based Ponzi scheme. Whitney, former pastor of the Westminster-based Church for the Healthy Self, was ordered to pay more than $22 million in restitution, after stealing more than $33 million. He pleaded […]
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 28 (ANI): Afghanistan’s permanent representative in the United Nations Ghulam Muhammad Isaczai who was due to give a speech at the United Nations General Assembly’s 76th session on Monday, called off his address to preserve national interests and Afghanistan’s seat. Afghanistan’s Mission in UN in a Twitter post said that they will […]
