Mohammad Tahir ul-Qadri is a Pakistani politician, former law professor and a Sufi scholar.He was the former professor of international constitutional law at the University of the...
Former attorney general of Sri Lanka, Mohan Peiris, has been appointed as the new Chief Justice of Sri Lanka after the dismissal of former Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake...
PM Manmohan Singh has selected urban development and parliamentary affairs minister Kamal Nath to lead the Indian team in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual summit in Davos,...
Halimah Yacob, a politician of Indian-origin, will be the first woman Speaker of Singapore’s Parliament when she replaces Michael Palmer, who was forced to resign over his extra-marital...
After the Parliament of Sri Lanka passed the impeachment motion with two-third majority against Chief Justice Shirani Bandarnayake, President Mahinda Rajapaksa dismissed her from the office. She is...
Playback singer Bombay Jayashri Ramnath, along with composer Mychael Danna, has been nominated in the Original Song category for the lullaby song she sung in film “Life of...
1979-batch IAS officer Rajiv Takru has been appointed as Financial Services Secretary in the Finance Ministry. Mr. Takru will take over as Secretary, Department of Financial Services, from...
President Pranab Mukherjee honored 15 NRIs with the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman awards. Mauritius President Rajkeswur Purryag, who was the chief guest at the inaugural of the Pravasi Bharatiya...
France honored Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education, withSimone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom. Malala Yousafzai was undergoing...
The chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council C. Rangarajan has suggested that increasing taxes on the “super-rich” could be one of the ways to improve the...
