Category: General Interest

On 13th July 2017, London witnessed a series of acid attacks in a span of 70 minutes. First of the five attacks took place at 10:25 pm on Hackney Road where a 32-year-old man on moped was attacked by two male riders resulting in facial injuries. As per police reports five men were attacked..

Opioid abuse and the resulted decline in labour force participation are analogous. This is an inference made by the Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Janet Yellen. According to Goldman Sachs, opioid abuse is one of the reasons why many people are not seeking work.

The Narendra Modi government had launched the Start-up India, Stand Up India campaign as soon as BJP came into power. It announced few measures like simplifying the regulations, offering some handholding, a few tax breaks, and a fund-of-funds to rev up th..

India on Monday welcomed the liberation of Mosul in Iraq from Islamic State and called it an important milestone in the global war on terror. However, the fate accompli of 39 Indians reportedly missing in Mosul is not yet clear. In June 2014, the Islamic State (IS) had..

On 11th July 2017 former, Israeli Navy commander Maj. Gen. (res.) Eliezer Marom was arrested by the Israeli Police in relation to the submarine case (dolphin-class). The arrest was made a day after six suspects were detained in relation to the ongoing investigations..

The ‘Not in My Name’ campaigners, who had held a nationwide protest against mob lynching on June 28, held the protests in Gujarat & Delhi yesterday. Around 600 people participated in the rally organised by Gujarat Jan Andolan at Ahmedabad yesterday. Though..

On 11 June 2017, seven Hindu pilgrims were killed and 20 injured in a militant attack in Indian-administered Kashmir after their bus got caught in crossfire. The bus was returning from the Amarnath Cave pilgrimage site in the Anantnag district when the attack took..

On 10 June 2017, Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos has signed a decree granting amnesty to another 3,600 members of the FARC rebel group. It is the third and final amnesty decree signed by Mr Santos. More than 7,000 rebels in total have been granted..

Rich and abundant black rock were discovered in the verdant hills of Boone County almost three centuries ago. The county claims to be the birthplace of America’s coal industry. Almost everything has coal in its name like, the Big and Little Coal rivers, the weekly..

Sri Lanka is suffering its worst-ever dengue outbreak, with the mosquito-borne virus killing 225 people and infecting more than 76,000 this year. Alarmed by the magnitude of the crisis, the government deployed 400 soldiers and police officers on Tuesday to clear away..