March 29, 2018 Zhang Zhongsheng, former vice mayor of Lyuliang City in north China’s Shanxi Province, was sentenced to death on Wednesday for taking bribes, the Intermediate People’s Court of Linfen in Shanxi Province said. According to the court, Zhang received bribes in cash and property worth a total of 1.04 billion yuan (165 million […]
d Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is putting strain on Pakistan’s public finances and currency, some are saying, casting a shadow over Xi Jinping’s signature connectivity plan. Jonathan Rogers writes in The Asseton potential hiccups for the grand infrastructure scheme. “[Pakistan’s] current account worsened substantially last year on the back of a sharp increase in imports […]
Russia’s Ambassador to Australia said on Wednesday the world will enter into a “Cold War situation” should the West continue its bias against Moscow in response to the nerve agent attack against a former Soviet spy in Britain. “The West must understand that the anti-Russian campaign has no future,” Russian Ambassador Grigory Logvinov told reporters […]
Freedom fighter Bhagat Singh’s 87th death anniversary was observed in Lahore by two groups of people who demanded declaring him a “national hero” of Pakistan. Singh was hanged at the age of 23 in Lahore on March 23, 1931 along with Rajguru and Sukhdev. The capital punishment had inspired thousands of people to take up […]
President Donald Trump on Thursday directed imposition of tariffs on Chinese products, and restrictions on Chinese investments in America in a move that officials described as “historic” and is meant to push back against “economic aggression”. A senior administration official said these measures mark a fundamental change in the current American approach towards Beijing that […]
March 21, 2018 “Islamophobia? Under Islam I was raped, I was put in prison, I was lashed, I was beaten, I was sold into marriage, I was literally broken down into pieces and I had to build myself back up. Do you really think my fear is irrational? I have every single right and reason […]
India’s junior education minister Satyapal Singh said that mantras codified the ‘laws of motion’ much before they were framed by Issac Newton and suggested that Vaastu compliance of educational buildings was important for learning, according to the minutes of the meeting of the government’s highest advisory body for policymaking in education. Singh was speaking at […]
In Denmark, a prominent mosque has told their congregation that apostates, adulterers and any one who harms a Muslim should be killed. The Mosque chairman defended the sermons, saying, “we believe in Islam”. Continuing: “If someone violates their marriage, either man or woman, they commit adultery and their blood is thus halal [acceptable under Muslim […]
Do you believe in the other-worldly presence? Have you ever experienced something supernatural? Do you at times feel there’s somebody omnipresent in the room, while you’re sleeping or doing the daily chores? Horror films cater to this kind of audience. Many people say that while shooting for a horror film, the cast and crew often […]
