US President Joe Biden has nominated Indian-American Rashad Hussain as the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. Hussain is the first Muslim to be nominated to the key position.
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Four pandas made the most of their time as they played on a slide in a park. The video has gone viral on social media.
Mumbai Police used a scene from Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara featuring actor Hrithik Roshan’s character Arjun Saluja to send across their message on vaccines and masks.
A Twitter user found a man’s wallet on a street in London and left no stone unturned to track him down and return it. The story has gone viral on social media.
According to reports, Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group has temporarily blocked several government clients around the world from using its spyware technology.
In his new post on Instagram, Sachin Tendulkar shared the story of his first meeting with his pet dog and captioned it, “Jab We Met…Spike.”
Scientists who studied a big Covid-19 outbreak in Massachusetts, US concluded that vaccinated people who got breakthrough infections carried about the same amount of the coronavirus as those who did not get the shots.
Today’s special Google Doodle features an animated graphic of Sariamin Ismail that shows her writing novels.
The US Centers for Disease Control has said the war against Covid-19 has changed because of the Delta variant, which was recently found to be as contagious as chickenpox.
An attack on a funeral procession in northern Iraq has claimed a number of victims, Iraq’s military said in a statement Friday without providing specific figures.
The Delta variant of the Covid-19 virus has been found in 15 cities across China, including Beijing.
Four people were injured on Friday after shots were fired in a store parking lot in northern Berlin on Friday.
A Pakistan embassy staff was reportedly attacked with a pistol in the Afghan city of Jalalabad on Friday. Reports suggest that the embassy staffer was inside his car when he was attacked.
A slice of one of Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s wedding cakes is up for auction. See the picture inside.
Wildfires have broken out elsewhere in the region as well, with more than 40 burning in Greece in the last 24 hours.
UK PM Boris Johnson struggles with his umbrella. Don’t miss Prince Charles’s reaction in viral video
Videos of UK PM Boris Johnson struggling with his umbrella at a memorial service has gone crazy viral on social media. Prince Charles, who was also present at the memorial, couldn’t keep himself from reacting to Boris Johnson’s predicament.
China has started recruiting Tibetans in People's Liberation Army (PLA) for deployment at LAC. It has been made mandatory for every Tibetan family to send one member to the PLA.
A road going up the hills collapsed into a gorge as a horrific landslide occurred in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district on Friday. The video has gone viral on social media.
Australia will return to India another 14 culturally significant artworks, some of which were likely stolen, illegally excavated or unethically acquired from the country.
A video of a tiger enjoying a bath in a waterhole has gone crazy viral on social media. The video was posted by Indian Forest Service Officer Sudha Ramen.
A shop in Karachi is actually selling Chocolate Biryani and the bizarre dish went viral on social media after a Pakistani YouTube channel posted a video of the preparation.
Google Doodle marked the seventh day of Tokyo Olympics 2020 with an animated marathon game.
Saudi Arabia announced Friday it would reopen its borders to fully vaccinated foreign tourists after a 17-month closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A spokesperson for the Taliban on Thursday said that flash flooding killed 150 people in a remote part of Afghanistan's mountainous northeastern Nuristan province controlled by the Talibans.
British-Swedish biopharma giant AstraZeneca on Thursday announced that it would seek approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its vaccines in the second half of this year.
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The full-scale UAM demonstrator took off at 2,310 kg, the highest take-off weight for a fully electric aircraft with a distributed drive system. Watch how Airbus's 4-seatear #eVTOL flies at an altitude of 20 metres.
In a shocking incident, five men allegedly raped and later killed a goat in Pakistan’s Okara. According to reports, the five accused took a labourer’s goat to a nearby compound and raped the animal, tortured it, before finally killing it.
An old video of a diver convincing an octopus to shift from a plastic cup, where it was taking refuge, to a seashell has gone crazy viral on social media. The video has 18 million views on YouTube.
More than 85 large wildfires were burning around the country, most of them in Western states, and they had burned over 1.4 million acres (2,135 square miles, or more than 553,000 hectares).
The viral meme shared by CBSE features Chellam Sir, the popular character played by Tamil actor Uday Mahesh in Manoj Bajpayee’s hit web series The Family Man 2.
Pegasus spyware row: Israeli officials inspect NSO’s offices; firm says working in full transparency
A team from the Israeli Ministry of Defence on Tuesday conducted an inspection of NSO Groups following allegations about the misuse of its Pegasus spyware. In a statement, the cybersecurity firm welcomed the inspection and said it is working in full transparency with Israeli authorities.
A video of a little girl dancing to Kriti Sanon's Param Sundari has gone crazy viral on social media. The video has over 97k views.
A shallow earthquake of magnitude 8.2 struck the Alaska Peninsula late on Wednesday, prompting tsunami warnings in the region.
To mark JRD Tata's 117th birth anniversary, Ratan Tata shared an old picture from the Tata Estate launch celebration.
Two rockets were fired near the US embassy in Baghdad on Thursday, security sources said.
In an interview to a US new channel, Pakistan PM Imran Khan defended the charge of providing safe haven to the Taliban, describing them as "normal civilians" and demanding how his country was supposed to hunt them down in such a scenario.
The baby rhino was seen drinking milk from a bottle in a video that has gone viral on social media.
The delivery of the food item by a helicopter has lead to a controversy.
A group of US lawmakers has reintroduced a bill in the House of Representatives to eliminate a programme which allows foreign students to stay in the country for work after finishing studies.
Fully vaccinated travellers from the US and EU countries will be able to skip the 10-day quarantine when they arrive in England, however, travellers from India will still remain on the red list.
The man displayed upbeat steps to the Badshah remix of Bachpan Ka Pyaar as he danced to the song in full spirit. The video has gone viral.
State employees in New York will be required to get vaccinated against the coronavirus by Labor Day or face weekly Covid-19 tests.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan filed a response in a defamation case, naming a "close friend" who reportedly offered him Rs 1,000 crore on behalf of Shahbaz Sharif to withdraw the Panama Papers case against then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is on a visit to New Delhi, met a key representative of The Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government in exile, Ngodup Dongchung.
A woman carried a winning ticket in her purse for weeks without realising it was worth about USD 39 million. She plans to use her lucky windfall to live a healthy life.
Indian-American physician Dr Manisha Juthani has been nominated by Governor Ned Lamont as the commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health.
Harsh Goenka shared an important message as a part of his “Wednesday Thought” post on Twitter. He talked about the importance of hanging on to positive thoughts in his tweet.
It so happened that a British tourist had a great fall as he accidentally fell into muddy water. A video of the incident has gone viral on social media.
Torrential rains triggered by a cloudburst wreaked havoc in Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Wednesday. In Rawalpindi, the local administration sought deployment of the Pakistan Army personnel.
China said the Taliban is expected to play an important role in the process of peaceful reconciliation and reconstruction in Afghanistan.
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