FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Kashi Mahakaal Express has reserved a seat for Lord Shiva. Photo: ANI
India's third private train Kashi Mahakaal Express received the green flag on Sunday from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and it is making headlines already. But for a very different reason.
The train, which will run from Varanasi to Indore and connect three Jyotirlinga shrines Omkareshwar, Mahakaleshwar, and...
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
The United Arab Emirates took a final step toward switching on the Arab world’s first commercial nuclear power plant, even as the country prospers by producing and selling fossil fuels.
The moon is seen illuminated above the reactor dome at the Sizewell B nuclear power station, operated by Electricite de France SA (EDF), in Sizewell, U.K.
The U.A.E.’s...
FEBRUARY 15, 2020
Srinivasa Gowda, a Kambala jockey from Moodabidri in Karnataka, has been called for trials by the Sports Ministry after he set a new record as the fastest runner in the history of the traditional sport of the coastal region Kambala.
Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju was tagged in a post on Twitter about Srinivasa's accomplishment by Mahindra's chairman...
FEBRUARY 15, 2020
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak is seen outside Downing Street in London, Britain, February 14, 2020. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
The new chancellor Rishi Sunak has been challenged by Labour to provide more details about his former career as a City hedge fund manager before entering politics.
Following Sunak’s rapid promotion to replace Sajid Javid in the wake...
FEBRUARY 15, 2020
Sleuths of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) from its Delhi zone unit said on Sunday that they had made India's first Dark Net crime arrest from Lucknow. The catch was 21-year-old hotel management graduate Dipu Singh, who had shipped hundreds of psychotropic drug parcels abroad in the garb of sex stimulation medicines.
About 12,000 tablets worth crores of...
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
MUNICH — Iran and the U.S. exchanged angry letters during the recent confrontation that followed the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and the two sides came "very close to the brink," Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told NBC News.
In an exclusive interview with NBC's Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel, Zarif said relations...
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
Shel Kaphan was either Amazon’s first employee or its co-founder, depending on how you view it. - Nikki Kahn/WashPost via Getty Images
Jeff Bezos once called him “the most important person ever in the history of Amazon.com.”
Now, Amazon’s very first employee, Shel Kaphan, says a breakup of Amazon “could potentially make sense.”
In an interview for a new PBS...
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
One of the nation’s oldest Black-owned banks is celebrating Black History Month with a special Harriet Tubman debit card. The OneUnited Bank limited-edition VISA debit card symbolizes “Black empowerment,” the company announced on Thursday (Feb. 13).
“We have the power to place Harriet Tubman on a global payment device in celebration of Black History Month,” said One United Bank’s President...
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Donald Trump speaks at a rally at West High School in Sioux City, Iowa, on Oct. 27, 2015, during his presidential campaign. - Nati Harnik/AP
Two kindergartners in Utah told a Latino boy that President Trump would send him back to Mexico, and teenagers in Maine sneered "Ban Muslims" at a classmate wearing a hijab. In Tennessee,...
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. President Donald Trump's comments this week weighing in on the trial of his longtime associate Roger Stone amount to political interference in the judiciary and are "an abuse of power," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters on Thursday.
"This is an abuse of power — that the president is again trying to manipulate federal...
