NEW DELHI: In perhaps a first, as many as 25 filmmakers including four from India, have put their heads and directorial skills together and made a film ‘The Owner’ which premieres worldwide on May 25. Even if the film does not find favor with audiences, it could well make its way into the Guinness Book [...]
New Delhi: US secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s crack of the whip vis a vis India’s oil imports from sanction-hit Iran appears to have worked. Keen on making up the for the likely drop in the import of Iranian crude, India is now cozying up to United Arab Emirates (UAE), Iraq as well as Saudi [...]
American rapper Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter has joined the list of celebrities and public figures who have thrown their support behind President Barack Obama’s stance on marriage equality. The rapper said that bans on same-sex marriage are “holding the country back.” “What people do in their own homes is their business and you can choose to [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: A judge in Malaysia has sentenced three Mexicans and two others to death for drug trafficking. The Mexicans, all brothers, are to be killed, in accordance with Malaysia’s stiff drug penalties, by hanging. The Mexicans, from Sinaloa – a leading drug spot in Mexico – have no criminal record in North America. According [...]
NEW DELHI: ‘Kali Ma’ a beer launched by an American company has begun fizzing even before being sold in India. The Indian Parliament on Wednesday heard an animated discussion by its parliamentarians who now want the government ask the United States Ambassador to apologize for using the name of a Hindu goddess ‘Kali Ma’ or [...]
Activists across the world are praising the passing of a new gender identity law in Argentina that recognizes, fully, the identity of transgender citizens in the country. It was an historic vote, 55-0, with one abstention, and could pave the way for other countries’ governments to end discrimination against transgender and gender ambiguous individuals. The [...]
SANA’A: Yemen officials said they were angry over the fact that the Pentagon had chosen not to share its intelligence on reports that al-Qaeda militants in Yemen were working towards a new type of bomb which they planned to use against an American aircraft in a repeat of the underwear bomber incident. The Yemeni Defense [...]
New Delhi: The United States government has fined national carrier ‘Air India’ to the tune for $ 80,000 for violation of its new airline consumer rules related to operational transparency. The already beleaguered Air India, which has already suffered a loss of over $ 10 billion in the fiscal ending 2011, has been accused of [...]
CAIRO: Microsoft has decided to team up on Monday with US bookselling giant Barnes & Noble aimed at grabbing a bigger share of the rapidly growing market for electronic books, according to a press release. The world’s biggest software group will make a $300 million investment in a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary focusing on [...]
CAIRO: Citigroup, the US banking giant, reported on Monday its results of 1st Quarter of 2012, on a profit of 2.9$ billion, a slightly down from 2011, as its branches in north America supported its gains against expected deeper losses, according to analysts. “The company was operating in an improved environment,” said Vikram Pandit, Citi’s Chief Executive [...]
Brazil’s government is hopeful that a new series of economic measures launched on Tuesday will help spur growth and boost competitiveness of its industrial sector. The country’s Finance Minister Guido Mantega said the fiscal benefits, soft loans and trade defense mechanism will help push the country forward. The plan will cost Brasilia some $5.46 billion [...]
NEW DELHI: Promoting India as an incredible tourism destination is India’s ‘goal’ at the 2014 World Cup scheduled to be held in Brazil. According to India’s tourism minister Subodh Kant Sahai a promotional media blitzkerg showcasing brand ‘Incredible India’, will be splashed all over the South American landscape. Sahai, said the government was looking at [...]
NEW DELHI: The United States said that it would not undermine India’s security and that the country’s continued use of Iranian oil despite pending sanctions, is not causing a rift between the countries. US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, in New Delhi on Monday, said “media reports” arguing there were problems in [...]
NEW DELHI: Hafiz Saeed, a mastermind in Mumbai’s multiple terror attacks in 2008 which killed nearly 200 persons, will soon feature on the United States government’s most wanted list, a visiting senior US department of state official said here. Information on Hafiz Saeed who heads the dreaded Jamaat-ud-Dawa will fetch a reward $ 10 million, [...]
SANA’A: During a visit to Saudi Arabia, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Prince Faisal, the Saudi Foreign Minister that the White House was standing ready to assist Yemen in its power-transfer, promising that it would assist the country’s financial reconstruction and fight against terror. Clinton asserted that the ultra-conservative Gulf Kingdom and the [...]
CAIRO: The United Nations human rights office today urged the Government of Chile to pass a law against discrimination, including on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity, following the recent killing of a young gay man in the capital, Santiago. “We also urge Chile to enact hate crime legislation that establishes hatred based on [...]
Buenos Aires (dpa) – The remote Islas Malvinas, known to Britain as the Falklands, are a national cause among Argentines, an embodiment of their identity and their sovereignty passed on from generation to generation almost since the country was founded. And yet, Argentines know that what may have been – and indeed may remain – [...]
New York (dpa) – Lawyers for former IMF leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Wednesday asked a United States judge to dismiss a civil case against him, claiming that he had diplomatic immunity at the time of the alleged rape of a maid in a New York hotel last year. Amit Mehta, one of Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers, told [...]
Manaus, Brazil (dpa) – The neighborhood of Zumbi dos Palmares II lies in the east of the Amazonian metropolis of Manaus. It used to be one of the poorest and most violent areas of this city of 1.8 million people, and it remains a social hotspot to this day. Zumbi dos Palmares II is the [...]
Buenos Aires (dpa) – Plaza San Martin in the center of Buenos Aires holds a special place in the hearts of many Argentinians. In 1807 it was the location of a victory over the British who were attempting to seize control of the city. Today it’s a home to the city’s poor and their pet [...]
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