This Panchayat elections in Odisha is witnessing a phalanx of young and highly educated people in the arena, trying their luck in grass roots politics. The new crop of politicians, all believer of the saying, ‘action speaks louder than words’, share a common objective of serving the society. Till a few days ago, checking the tooth of…Continue Reading
The Supreme Court on Thursday held that inherited property of a female Hindu dying issueless and intestate, will either go to the heirs of her parents or husband.Explaining the provisions of the Hindu Succession Act, a bench of Justices S. Abdul Nazeer and Krishna Murari said: “The main scheme of this Act is to establish…Continue Reading
Apparently devastated by the news about wife’s death, Dillip Nayak, from Harekrushnapur village under Dhenkanal Sadar Police limits, met with an accident that took his life on Thursday.The tragic incident occurred when Dillip’s bike crashed into a tree near Biswanathpur village under Gondia Police limits when he was rushing back home after hearing about his…Continue Reading
Representational image — AFP/FileElephant has given birth to twins — one male and one female.New borns get accustomed to their savannah surroundings with their doting mother and an older sibling.Population of African savanna elephants reclassifies as “endangered” in the latest update to the IUCN’s “Red List” of threatened species.NAIROBI: An elephant in Kenya has given birth to…Continue Reading
(Representational image) a judge can be seen tapping his gavel in a courtroom in this undated photo. — Twitter/FileIn what would appear at first glance a momentous day for Pakistan’s criminal justice system, typically fraught with cases where the innocent needlessly languish in prison, a Karachi court on January 10 exonerated a woman, Saima Farhan,…Continue Reading
Capsules of the investigational antiviral pill Molnupiravir. — AFP/FileThe 105 countries include some of the world’s most heavily populated nations like Pakistan, India.Generic drug manufacturers will make a more affordable version of Merck’s anti-COVID pill for 105 poor nations.”This is a critical step toward ensuring global access to an urgently needed COVID-19 treatment,” MPP official…Continue Reading
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (Left) and recently discovered a frog named after her (Right). — instagram.com/gretathunberg/ witter.com/konradmebert/FileNew species of frog gets named after Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg. Frog has been found in an isolated mountain range in the rainforests of Panama.Researchers explain the reason to connect the frog with Greta Thunberg.A new species of frog…Continue Reading
Sonny Weems playing for the Guangdong Southern Tigers at the Chinese Basketball Association. — AFP/FileIn a video circulating on social media, basketball fans can be seen hurling the “N-word” at the athlete.Weems is seen exiting the team bus when a crowd of fans hurl racist slurs at him.The fans tell the player to “get out of…Continue Reading
Remember: With Republicans, every accusation is a confession. Nowhere is that more true than in the discourse around fair elections and voting rights, both of which Republicans stand firmly against. On Wednesday, Senate Democrats attempted to pass a bill that would both protect voting rights and strengthen elections against blatant Republican sabotage. In response, Senate…Continue Reading
Sen. Jon Ossoff, one of the two Georgia Democrats elected in last year’s runoff elections, confronted Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, on the Senate floor Wednesday over her previous support for voting rights legislation and her opposition to Democrats’ new voting rights proposal. Ossoff, the youngest member of the Senate, called out the fifth-term senator before she joined the…Continue Reading