More than three days after the brutalized body of a missing teenage girl was found in the northern Indian state of Haryana, police had yet to identify her alleged rapists and killers, an official said Tuesday. The 15-year-old victim went missing on Jan. 9 after she left her home in Kurukshetra town for private tutoring, […]
A Muslim scholar who is the prayer leader of India’s second largest Mosque told Sputnik that as taking grants and subsidies for embarking on the pilgrimage is not mentioned in Islam, therefore, the Muslim community is unlikely to oppose the move. New Delhi (Sputnik) — The government of India has announced the abolition of a […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Despite its fearsome, Velociraptor-like skull, a 161-million-year-old dinosaur the size of a duck would have been a shining, shimmering and splendid sight to behold — mostly because it sported gleaming, iridescent feathers that were rainbow-colored, a new study finds, according to Live Science. Iridescent feathers glistened on the dinosaur’s head, wings and tail, […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An Iranian oil tanker that had caught fire during a crash in the East China Sea on January 6 went under water on Sunday after burning for eight days. The Iranian oil tanker sank around midday Sunday after the spread of fire to new oil condensate tanks created blazes as high as […]
Military Police used excavators and dynamite to destroy the Golden Lampstand Church. “This might be a new pattern against any independent churches”, Christian advocacy groups warn. Golden Lampstand Church in Linfen, Shanxi, China’s northern province, was demolished this week. It is the second in less than one month, sparking fears of a wider campaign against […]
Russia’s Defence Ministry has issued a statement in which claims to have completely eliminated the Jihadi group which carried out the drone attack on Russia’s Syrian bases in Khmeimim and Tartus on 6th January 2018. The Defence Ministry’s report reads in part as follows “When the terrorists arrived at the facility where they were to […]
A court in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh sentenced a Cambodian woman to a one-year jail term on Thursday for posting a video on her Facebook page accusing Prime Minister Hun Sen of ordering the murder more than a year ago of government critic Kem Ley. Hin Van Sreypov, aged 37 and a former member of […]
Two planes were forced to abort their scheduled landings at Ahmedabad Airport in India and head to Mumbai instead after a cow decided to take a stroll on the runway. Cows are sacred in Hinduism, so the sight of these large animals promenading as they please in India, regardless of who they inconvenience, is commonplace. […]
