Harjit Sajjan, a former police officer and veteran of three military deployments to Afghanistan, was named Canada’s new minister of defense on Wednesday, bringing first-hand expertise to one of the country’s top cabinet positions. Sajjan will oversee an anticipated change in Canada’s military involvement in the battle against militants in Syria and Iraq. Newly sworn-in Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has already said he wants to end Canada’s air strikes […]

Moshe Kai Cavalin has two college degrees, but he’s too young to vote. He flies airplanes, but he’s too young to drive a car alone. Life is filled with contrasts for Cavalin, a 17-year-old from San Gabriel, California, who has dashed by major milestones as his age seems to lag behind. He graduated from community college at age 11. Four years later, he had a bachelor’s in math from the […]

India has moved up one position to become the world’s seventh most-valued “nation brand”, with an increase of 32 percent in its brand value to $2.1 billion – the highest among all the top 20 nations on the list. As per a report on world’s most valuable nation brands by global consultants Brand Finance, India is sole among the Brics nations to have witnessed an increase in its brand value, […]

Oscar-winning actor Kate Winslet has lent her voice to an anti-bullying animated short film Daisy Chain. 40-year-old has admitted that bullies made fun of her appearance while growing up. As an adult, she has cultivated a positive body image and made it her mission to help others build self-confidence. So when it came time for writer-director Galvin Scott Davis to cast the voice of the lead character in his new […]

Pharrell Williams on Monday dedicated his song Freedom to refugees fleeing to Europe, hailing immigrants’ contributions around the world. The US pop star, best known for his viral global hit Happy, on Sunday performed his jazzy new track at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Milan, interjecting the phrase, “Let them in!” Elaborating a day later at a forum in New York, Williams said he did not consider himself an […]

As co-founder of Hotwire.com and CEO of Zillow for the last seven years, 39-year-old Spencer Rascoff fits most people’s definition of success. As a father of three young children, Spencer is a busy guy at home and at work. What’s the one thing that Spencer refuses to do on the weekend? Work—at least, in the traditional sense. Rascoff says: “I never go into the office on weekends, but I do […]

Justin Trudeau, the son of a popular former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, recently won Canada’s general election by defeating Stephen Harper, the outgoing Conservative PM. Trudeau ended nearly a decade of Conservative rule in Canada when his Liberal Party secured 54 percent of the country’s seats in the federal election. Watch below Trudeau dancing to the tunes of Punjabi traditional dance Bhangra and doing quite a good job of it. (Courtesy – […]

Johannesburg: A great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi is being tried in South Africa for defrauding two businessmen of $830,887, a media report said on Tuesday. Ashish Lata Ramgobin, 45, appeared in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Monday and pleaded not guilty to the charge. She was released on $3,776 bail, Enews Channel Africa quoted a police spokesperson as saying on Tuesday. The Hawks Durban Organised Crime squad — a directorate for […]

The 42nd Canadian Federal elections propelled 43-year-old Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau into the position as the Prime Minister-elect of the country as it delivered a clear verdict, with his party winning an unexpected majority in the House of Commons (the country’s equivalent of the Indian Lok Sabha) and set to form the Government.  Incumbent Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to resign as leader of the ruling Conservative Party, […]

While normal people like you and me aren’t becoming overnight celebrities on the internet, YouTube’s top-earning personality is a 25-year-old video-game-playing jokester from Sweden who took in $12 million (Rs. 77.64 crores) over the past year. According to Forbes magazine, Felix Kjellberg, better known by his handle PewDiePie, tops its first list of people who have spun short online videos into huge piles of cash. Popular YouTube celebrities make money […]