Justin Trudeau is set to become the next prime minister of Canada after he led his Liberal Party to a sensational victory in the general election, ending the ten-year Conservative rule of Stephen Harper. According to preliminary results, the Liberals have bagged 184 seats, comfortably above the 170 needed to form a majority in the […]
Month: October 2015
All you need to know about Halloween
The meaning of Halloween Halloween is also spelt as Hallowe’en. This festival is celebrated primarily in Ireland and Northern Ireland along with the U.S. and Canada. The name of this festival can be regarded as a shorter form of All Hallow’s Evening. The other names of this festival are Allhalloween, All Saint’s Eve, and All […]
Violence against Women – Worldwide Statistics
Global data for 2013 provided by UN Women shows that 35% of the women across the world have experienced some sort of violence – physical or sexual – from either their partners or people who were not their partners. However, in some countries the percentage of women who have experienced sexual or physical violence from […]
Israelis and Palestinians in the grip of fresh wave of tension
Israelis and Palestinians are in the grip of fresh wave of tension. In fact, weeks of renewed violence, which included stabbings of Israeli civilians and clashes between Palestinian and Israeli forces, climaxed when a group of Palestinians in the West Bank set afire a compound that housed Joseph’s Tomb – a religious site which is […]
Libya continues to trudge in crisis as UN peace plan fails to fructify
Libyans, it appears, will not get rid of the crisis soon. Though the UN has handed over Libya a peace plan that on implementation promises to end chaos it is afflicted with since the fall of dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, yet no one is ready to support it within the North African country. Drafted […]
10 unusual North Korea Facts that may surprise you
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, better known as North Korea is certainly an enigma. Having distanced itself from the rest of the world and having idolized its leaders as living god did not help. As the curiosity of the world increased, rumors from North Korea became more implausible and outrageous. Here are 10 weird facts […]
Top 10 Favorite Wines
“Wine makes every meal an occasion”, they say. Most people from across the world will agree. Though there are thousands of wines available throughout the world, here is our selection of the top 10 wines consumed across the globe. Sauvignon Blanc Named the UK’s favorite wine this year, the Sauvignon Blanc is a classic wine […]
How is the ISIS funded?
The jihadist militant group called the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), also sometimes referred to as the Islamic State (IS), has emerged as the biggest terrorist threat faced by the world in recent times. In April 2015, the BBC called it the World’s Richest Terror Army. The net worth of this militant organization […]
Life after Fukushima
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster The meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant in March 2011 was one of the worst nuclear disasters of recent times. The plant was one of Japan’s premier nuclear energy producing stations and among the top 15 power plants in the world. Commissioned in 1971 to help fuel the nation’s growing […]
Cochin: The World’s First Solar Powered Airport
India has mega plans for generating 100,000 MW of electricity from solar power by 2022. Towards this, the government has been encouraging the use of solar power generating options from roof-top solar systems to commercial grid-level farms. For a country that gets 300 days of clear sunshine in a year in most parts of the […]