North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wipes tears and looks emotional in a video from a recent event where he called for efforts to tackle the country’s falling birth rates and urged women to have more children. In the video, which is going viral on social media, he can be seen looking down and wiping…
“Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate the rules of bullying and harassment,” is what Republican lawmaker Elise Stefanik asked the representatives of the top colleges in the US. The hearing in the US Senate came after protests over the Hamas’ Israel attack roiled campuses across the US. Alumni and donors, citing incidents of…
Krystle Kaul, an Indian-origin foreign policy and national security expert with roots in Kashmir, has announced that she will run for the US House of Representatives from a Congressional district in Virginia with a focus on core issues like public safety, education and healthcare. Kaul, if elected in 2024, would be only the second Indian-American…
The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) which conducts postgraduate examinations at the national level has invited applications from eligible and desirous candidates for the post of Accounts Officer on Contractual basis. Interested and eligible candidates can visit the official website of NBEMS to check details of the job role. EligibilityThe job is…
A video showing Sunny Deol is going viral on social media. It shows the seemingly drunk actor at Juhu Circle in Mumbai boarding an autorickshaw. People who posted the short clip on X say it was recorded on Tuesday night. Mr Deol is seen walking unsteadily and unable to hold himself in the middle of…
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has laughed off reports the opposition INDIA group meeting in Delhi – scheduled by the Congress for this afternoon – was postponed because he refused to attend. Nitish Kumar told reporters he had a fever and that was why he couldn’t travel to Delhi. “In the news it was being…
There is a reason Revanth Reddy, Telangana’s chief minister-in-waiting, is “Tiger Revanth” to his admirers. That is because he bides his time and attacks at the right moment. And when he is under attack, he fights back and fights fiercely. On July 1, 2015, when Revanth Reddy emerged from Cherlapally jail after a month’s imprisonment…
The presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania told US lawmakers they won’t tolerate antisemitism on their campuses as they cope with protests over the Israel-Hamas war. Harvard’s Claudine Gay, Penn’s Liz Magill and MIT President Sally Kornbluth defended their actions before the House Education and the Workforce…
As 2023 nears its end, many are curious about what interested people the most this year and compelled them to search for it on the Internet. Wikimedia, the organisation behind Wikipedia, has shared the most searched and read articles of 2023, and the list includes several topics from India, showcasing diverse interests. The most-read Wikipedia…
The Ukrainian sniper who killed a Russian soldier from a record 3.8 kilometres (around 2.3 miles) is a 58-year-old ex-businessman, Vyacheslav Kovalskiy. The shot by Mr. Kovalskiy, spanning 12,468 feet, covered a distance greater than that of two Brooklyn Bridges in approximately 9 seconds, ultimately resulting in the death of the enemy soldier. “I was…