Diwali ( Deepavali) a festival of lights stretching five days mainly celebrated by Hindus during the Hindu Lunisolar month Kartika ( between October and November). The festival of light is observed by Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains worldwide, the victory of good over evil and commemorates Lord Rama’s and Sita’s return to the city of Ayodhya,…
In 1796, American President George Washington in his farewell address cautioned the young nation “to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. “ Isolationism thereafter became one of the most influential political trends in American history. From the founding era until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United…
Award-winning investigative Financial Times journalist Tom Burgis reveals a terrifying global web of corruption by following the dirty money that is flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators, and poisoning democracies, spanning Kremlin to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, Paris to the Trump White House, all at a terrible human cost. A body in a burned-out Audi.…
David Omand, a rising Whitehall official, in 1982, with John Nott carrying top-secret folder intercepts from Government Communications Agency, GCHQ, met with then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to reveal decrypted messaged, sent by the Argentine Navy, showing Leopoldo Galtieri’s junta was set to seize the Falkland Islands. The capital Port Stanley fell a few days…
A lion fell unconscious after being bitten by a venomous black cobra in Masai Mara National Reserve stretched along the Tanzanian border adjacent to the Serengeti- a photographer’s and naturalist’s paradise- in Narok, Kenya, Africa. The forest officials rushed to the spot as soon as they knew about the incident. The rescue team included Dileep…
Peter Sutcliffe, 74, serial killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper has died, as he refused treatment after contracting coronavirus at HMP Frankland in County Durham. Sutcliffe who murdered at least 13 women across the north of England in the late 1970s, was jailed in 1981 and spent several years at Broadmoor Hospital where he was…
Youtube users worldwide reported on Thursday morning that the video-sharing platform was down for more than an hour, YouTube had a major outage on Wednesday and was having issues loading videos for an hour, The issue appeared to affect other services that use the YouTube infrastructure too, including YouTube TV and the movies and TV…
US President-elect Joe Biden was seen wearing a cap bearing the words ” We just Did” written on it following his election victory. Social media users compared it with the red ” Make America Great Again” caps that were made popular by US President Donald Trump. Biden’s cap embroidered with the number “46” suggesting his…
The UK’s economy bounced back from recession in July to September, but growth showed signs of slowing down at the end of three months. Growth of 15.5 per cent from July to September after a six-month slump induced by the first coronavirus lockdown was the biggest on record according to the Office for National Statistics…
A new wave of electric cars ranging from practical and affordable to luxurious, expensive, technologically advanced, and status symbols are arriving in 2021. Top 10 Most Valuable Car Brands in 2020 No Name Billion $ Billion £ 1 Toyota $52.00 £39.52 2 Mercedes Benz $50.00 £38.00 3 BMW $40.00 £30.40 4 Honda $28.00 £21.28 5…