Category: General Interest

The Leader of the ISIL urges fighters to keep up the fight despite being severely depleted. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant also known as ISIL and ISIS that is considered a Salafi jihadist militant group and unrecognized proto-state that follows a fundamentalist, Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam. It gained global prominence…

New Delhi wants the Facebook-owned instant messaging app to weed out “fake news” in India. WhatsApp is an instant messaging service owned by Facebook. WhatsApp enjoys unparalleled daily usership, ease of access and an easy-to-use interface which has made it the most popular messaging app online. Its…

Big US business are desperate for tax breaks and relief from tariffs as a protracted trade war loom. The United States and China are two of the largest economies in the world. Both countries consider the other as a partner in trade and an adversary in geopolitics. Diplomatic relations between US and China was first…

Kofi Annan, the former UN chief and the only black African to become the secretary general of the United Nations dies at 80. Kofi Atta Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan was co-recipients of the 2001…

President Trump tweets the cancellation of his desired military parade in Washington DC. Scheduled to be held on Veterans Day, the parade would have included troops and equipment from all five branches of the armed services and would celebrate the history and accomplishments..

Former prime minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee and BJP stalwart passed away at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in the national capital on Thursday. He was 93. Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee was born in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh state, on 25 December 1924. Atal Bihari Vajpayee served as the Prime..

More than 300 news outlets have launched a campaign to counter President Donald Trump’s attacks and promote a free press. Trump has targeted the media with criticism and accusations since early on in his presidential campaign, with those attacks continuing — and sometimes escalating…

US space agency NASA has delayed its mission to send a satellite closer to the Sun than any before. It will also be the fastest human-made object ever, navigating around the Sun at speeds of up to 690,000km/h, enabling a travel from New York to Tokyo in under a minute. Parker Solar Probe is…

UN’s international day of the world’s indigenous peoples was observed on August 9. 2019 was declared as the year of indigenous languages to protect the contributors of the world’s rich diversity. Indigenous peoples are basically ethnic groups who are the original inhabitants of a given region, in contrast to groups..

Chemical giant Monsanto has been ordered to pay $289m (£226m) damages to a man who claimed herbicides containing glyphosate had caused his cancer. Monsanto is an agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation headquartered in Creve Coeur, Greater St. Louis, Missouri…