SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
New Delhi: The world, at least most of it with some exceptions, mourns the passing of Queen Elizabeth II of the UK, it has once more brought to the fore the scars of British colonialism and the concomitant organized loot of scores of nations that were pushed decades and centuries back in mankind’s long march to freedom...
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, right, welcomed China’s president, Xi Jinping, to Moscow in 2013. They will meet again at a summit meeting of Asian leaders in Uzbekistan next week.
In the winter of 2013, China announced that the first trip abroad for its newly chosen leader China, Xi Jinping would be to Russia, a country with...
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
President Joe Biden and Queen Elizabeth II. - WPA Pool, Getty Images
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Joe Biden won’t be taking a delegation with him when he travels to London for the state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II, making it unlikely that ex-presidents like Barack Obama and Donald Trump will go.
The White House announced Sunday that Biden had accepted an invitation to...
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
A Ford F-150 Lightning, Volkswagen ID.4 and Ford Mustang Mach-E charging at the Electrify Canada station in Kingston, Ontario. - Benjamin Hunting
The specter of the Great American Road Trip hangs over the EV industry like a looming dark cloud, the ultimate “but what about” argument that is brought up in nearly every conversation concerning the range of...
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Like history in India today — disputed, contradicted, excavated — former Archaeological Survey of India head Braj Basi Lal’s legacy is torn between those exulting him as a “great intellectual” who connected India with its rich past and others criticizing him for the “abuse of archaeology”.
And like chapters in history that ruffle feathers from time to time,...
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
Dwarka Peeth Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati passed away on Sunday at the age of 99 in Madhya Pradesh’s Narsinghpur district.
The Hindu religious leader breathed his last at Shridham Jhoteshwar Ashram at around 3:30 pm, Swami Sadanand Maharaj, second-in-command (known as Dandi Swami) of the Dwarka Peeth told PTI.
An Ashram release said the Shankaracharya died of cardiac arrest....
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
Tamil Nadu Conversion Racket | AIADMK Spokesperson, Kovai Sathyan said that there has to be a thorough and transparent probe in the Chennai conversion racket.
Earlier, a conversion mafia was exposed after the State Commission of Protection of Child's rights (SCPCR) paid a surprise visit to CSI Girls Hostel.
Girl's from poor families were allegedly forced, harassed, and converted...
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
NASA shared a somber image on Twitter Sunday as the world reflected on the thousands of people killed when a terrorist group launched coordinated attacks against the United States of America (USA) by hijacking and crashing commercial airline planes at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, 21 years ago on September 11, 2001.
"The attacks...
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
Bill Gates has partnered with Samsung to create a prototype waterless toilet for household use that turns solid waste into ashes.
The toilet was developed as part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Reinvent the Toilet Challenge which started in 2011 and sought proposals for toilets that safely and effectively manage human waste.
The Microsoft founder worked with...
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
Queen Elizabeth II in Tuvalu during a 1982 tour of the South Pacific, which also included a stop in the Solomon Islands. - Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images
HONIARA, Solomon Islands — Millicent Barty has spent years trying to decolonize her country, recording oral histories across the Solomon Islands and promoting Melanesian culture. Her goal: to...
