Protesters will test Thai coup leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha this weekend after he said there would be no elections in Thailand for more than a year to give the military time to engineer reforms.Prayuth ousted the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on May 22 after months of Continue Reading
Month: May 2014
The owner and manager of a children’s boarding school in Maharashtra have been arrested after five minors said they were raped, forced to watch pornographic films and act them out with one another, police and charity workers said.The children were made to eat faeces as a punishment if Continue Reading
Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday to visit India, seeking greater engagement between the world’s two most populous nations on trade and regional security.Modi extended the invitation when he spoke by telephone with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Continue Reading
Police have arrested one man and are looking for four other suspects after two teenage girls were gang raped and then hanged from a tree in a village in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Thursday.The two cousins, who were from a low-caste Dalit community and aged 14 and 15, went missing from their Continue Reading
The 4th edition of Miss Queen of India held at Gokulam Park Inn Convention Centre, Kochi on 30th May , announces the winners. Manappuram Miss Queen of India 2014 Ms. Dimple Paul from Mumbai,First Runner up Ms. Aditi Shetty from Karnataka and Second Runner up Ms. Snehapriya Roy from Bihar. Continue Reading
Pimco said on Tuesday it has rehired Paul McCulley, who was previously a portfolio manager and the bond giant’s top analyst of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policies, in the latest management change after the departure of the firm’s chief executive Mohamed El-Erian earlier this Continue Reading
Egypt’s presidential election was extended by a day on Tuesday in an effort to boost lower than expected turnout that threatened to undermine the credibility of the frontrunner, former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.After Sisi called for record voter participation, low turnout would be Continue Reading
Kochi: The 4th edition of Miss Queen of India will be held at Gokulam Park Inn Convention Centre, Kochi on 30th of May 2014. The Pageant aims to discover the freedom of expression and talent of the women of India. This edition of the pageant will bring together the youth of India reflecting the Continue Reading
Mutant superhero movie “X-Men: Days of Future Past” powered to $302 million in worldwide ticket sales through the U.S. Memorial Day holiday on Monday, capping a weekend in which it surpassed “Avatar” as the biggest global debut for film studio 20th Century Fox.The Continue Reading
About a year ago Narendra Modi sat down with some of India’s best and brightest to mount what one election strategist called a “shock and awe” campaign.From an unmarked office in Gandhinagar, the capital of Modi’s home state of Gujarat, the young men and women, some on Continue Reading