World Hello Day:how to say hello in various languages World Hello Day falls every year on November 21 and in 2017 we celebrate the 45th time we have been treated to this annual event. The idea of World Hello Day began in response to the conflict between Egypt and Israel in 1973. World Hello Day promotes communication as a means of resolving conflicts. All differences, from personal to international can […]
Teaser of The Incredibles 2 The first teaser of Incredibles 2 has been revealed – and it looks like baby of the family, Jack-Jack, will be causing all kinds of trouble for the superhero family. The sequel to Pixar’s 2004 superhero film The Incredibles will bring back the super-powered Parr family, and will pick up immediately after the closing of the first movie. The trailer shows off one thing: babies […]
Iran’s earthquake death toll raised to 530: declared an emergency Iranian officials have raised the death toll from Sunday’s earthquake of 7.3 magnitude on its border with Iraq to at least 530, making it the deadliest in the world this year. At least 7,460 people were injured during the earthquake, which hit seven big cities and 1,950 villages in the province. Officials said 12,000 houses had been completely destroyed and […]
Pakistan YouTube Video “Tajdar-e-Haram” smashes with100 million views Music is Universal It has No Boundaries …..As Atif Aslam’s ‘Tajdar-e-Haram’, a 10-minute-long song from Coke Studio’s eighth season becomes the first song from Pakistan to cross hundred million views on YouTube. The song has been watched by people living in more than 186 countries across the world. The qawwali was initially produced by songwriter Shiraz Uppal. Atif had planned to keep […]
Oscar-winner Brie Larson’s”Basmati Blues”trailer The trailer of Oscar-winner Brie Larson’s latest offering, ‘Basmati Blues’, is viral for all the wrong reasons. The cliche-rich trailer, complete with a Bollywood dance sequence, shows Larson’s character travelling to India to sell genetically-modified rice to farmers. The two and a half minute clip, which shows all things stereotypically ‘Indian’ like stray goats and spicy food, has been thrashed online for ‘white-washing’ and cultural appropriation. […]
Two Indian American candidates have overcome bigoted propaganda to win local elections in New Jersey – one of them as the Mayor of Hoboken. Ravi Bhalla was elected in Tuesday’s elections as the first Sikh Mayor of the town that is a suburb of New York City. While campaigning for the mayoral race, the Indian-American born and raised in New Jersey was called a “terrorist” in targeted racist attacks. Anonymously […]
Fifty Shades Freed trailer Don’t Miss the Climax The official “Fifty Shades Freed” trailer and poster have been released online with the promise of plenty of steamy scenes, underlined by the single-entendre tagline “Don’t Miss the Climax.” Fifty Shades Freed, which is set to be released just in time for Valentine’s Day on February 9, 2018. It looks like this final installment will offer the same exciting elements we’ve come […]
Texas church shooting: at least 26 confirmed dead An armor-clad gunman opened fire inside a rural Texas church on Sunday, killing more than two dozen people in the largest mass shooting in the state’s history, officials said. Twenty-six people were killed during the shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said at a news conference Sunday evening. “The tragedy, of course, is worsened by the […]
Beware! India among top seven countries at high ransom ware risk India is among the top seven countries for ransomware circulation as cyber attacks on Windows, Android, Linux and MacOS systems have increased this year globally, a new report has said. According to “SophosLabs 2018 Malware Forecast” by global network and endpoint security leader Sophos, two types of Android attack methods are emerging — locking the phone without encrypting data […]
Multiple people were shot on Wednesday inside a Walmart in a Denver suburb, local police said Multiple people were shot on Wednesday inside a Walmart in a Denver suburb, local police said. Police in Thornton, Colorado, did not release any information about any of the victims and it was not clear if an assailant had been taken into custody. Thornton is about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Denver. “We’ve […]
