Miscellaneous

Bhubaneswar: World AIDS Day and the Red Cross Week start today, December 1. Every year, a theme is chosen on the basis of which discussions and awareness programmes are conducted....

Dallas: Six persons were feared dead after two World War 2-era planes collided midair at a Second World War commemorative airshow in Dallas on Saturday. A video showing the horrific...

Bhubaneswar: Elon Musk fired Twitter’s top brass, including CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde, head of legal policy, trust, and safety, after closing the $44 billion deal...

Bhubaneswar: Rishi Sunak will be first Britain’s prime minister of colour, the first Hindu, and the youngest since William Pitt. He is the third Conservative prime minister in under two...

London: Indian-origin politician and Britain's former finance minister Rishi Sunak confirmed his bid to become the next Conservative leader and prime minister on Sunday, six weeks after Liz Truss beat...

Bejing: China’s President Xi Jinping has secured a historic third term as the country’s leader, cementing his place as the nation’s most influential ruler since Mao Zedong. He was anointed...

Kyiv: Multiple explosions have rocked central Kyiv, only a week after Russia launched strikes across Ukraine, the Associated Press reported on Monday. The fighting has intensified in Ukraine's eastern regions...

Bhubaneswar: Buckingham Palace officials are reconsidering UK's Queen Consort's coronation using the Kohinoor diamond and it may now be cancelled with the ruling party of India warning that the move...

Washington: The first Hindu American to run for the White House in 2020, Tulsi Gabbard, on Tuesday announced her decision to quit the governing Democratic Party while calling it an...

Oslo: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the...