A splash of colour doused the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa as it witnessed the first ever celebration of Holi at the seat of the country’s government. The festival of colours arrived at the parliament complex on Thursday the initiative of Chandra Arya, the Liberal Party MP from Nepean, an Ottawa riding (as constituencies are called in Canada), with the involvement of the Indian high commission. More than 300 people participated […]
Around 1,500 delegates from the country and abroad will participate in the fourth ‘India Water Week’ from 4 to 8 April to discuss water conservation, augmentation of groundwater and irrigation management, Union minister Uma Bharti said today. To be organised by Water Resources Ministry in partnership with Israel and five states Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Telangana under the theme “Water for all: Striving Together”, the event will be inaugurated […]
Three explosions ripped through the international airport and a metro station in Brussels on Tuesday, killing at least 34 people in apparently coordinated strikes four days after a key suspect in last year’s Paris attacks was arrested in the city. Two blasts targeted the main hall of Zaventem Airport at 8am (0700 GMT), and another went off at the Maalbeek metro station near the European Union’s main buildings while commuters […]
An Italian town has decided to fight the problem of beggars in its own way – instead of fining the panhandlers, authorities are planning to punish those who give them money. The crucial decision was announced after residents of coastal town of Bordighera, Liguria region, in northwestern Italy said they were repeatedly bothered by local beggars. It is “pointless to punish those who can’t or will never be able to […]
A diamond ring that belonged to former child star Shirley Temple is going up for auction next month at a starting price of $25m (£17.3m), Sotheby’s says. The auction house said the 9.54-carat “Fancy Deep Blue” ring was bought by Temple’s father in 1940 for $7,210. Temple, one of Hollywood’s most popular stars in the 1930s, died in 2014 at the age of 85. A private buyer bought the ring […]
Hackers affiliated to ISIS terror group who promised to take down International search engine giant Google has instead targeted a small Indian tech firm, according to a media report. Cyber Caliphate Army (CCA), a hacking group affiliated to ISIS, hit www.Addgoogleonline.Com registered by Gandani K for Indian tech firm Always Say, which offers search engine optimisation (SEO) services to local clients. According to vocative.Com website, CCA had vowed on messaging […]
The 25,000th Syrian refugee landed in Canada Saturday night marking the end of the first phase of the Liberals’ massive resettlement program. They were part of a plane load of refugees who touched down in Montreal. In the coming days, the group will spread to eight different provinces joining those who’ve arrived in Canada since the Liberals’ launched their Syrian refugee plan in November. The Liberals had first made a […]
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday he was “sympathetic” with Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook in his stand-off with the US government over breaking into the iPhone of a mass shooter. “I don’t think that requiring back doors to encryption is either going to be an effective thing to increase security or is really the right thing to do. We are pretty sympathetic to Tim and Apple,” he said […]
At least five people have been killed in a second day of violence related to caste rights in the northern Indian state of Haryana, police say. Protesters in the towns of Rohtak and Jind set fire to police vehicles, public buildings and buses. The demonstrators are mostly from the Jat community who are unhappy about India’s caste quota system. They say it puts them at a disadvantage in government jobs […]
Open Road Films is pushing back the release of Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden’ from May 13 to September 16. The biopic stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as controversial NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, while Shailene Woodley plays Snowden’s girlfriend, Lindsay Mills, said the Hollywood Reporter. It’s the third time the release date of ‘Snowden’ has been altered. It was originally set to open December 25, 2015, in time for consideration this awards season. Open […]
