Author: Parnika Shriyan

With the release of their title song, Guerrilla, Ateez has launched their new series, The World Ep.1: Movement.

“Flowers for Kanwariyas, Bulldozers for Us”: Owaisi slams the BJP-led govt that previously accused his politics to be “divisive” On Wednesday, AIMIM Chief and Hyderabad MP, Asaduddin Owaisi, questioned the UP-Government’s actions of showering the Kanwar Yatris with flower petals. He called out the BJP-led Government’s blatant religious discrimination wherein there is such a disparity in the gestures towards Hindus and Muslims in this country. The communities are treated such that Indian Hindus are received with aerial flower showers while Indian Muslims have had to suffer through the demolition of their homes.  “The UP government is using taxpayers’ money to…

The Taliban-led Afghanistan government has taken a major step towards renovating Gurdwara Karte Parwan in Kabul which suffered damage in a terror attack. Recently, the Taliban has made claims that their security situation in Afghanistan has been resolved and has furthermore, tried prompting its minorities, Hindus and Sikhs, to return back to the country. This proclamation was made post the meeting of the Director General of the Office of the Minister of State of Taliban, Dr Mullah Abdul Wasi, with several members of the Hindu and Sikh Council of Afghanistan on July 24th. This meeting was shed light on in…

In the midst of war, Moscow and Kyiv set hostilities aside to sign a landmark deal to relieve a global food crisis. On Friday, Ukraine and Russia signed a landmark deal directed toward relieving a global food crisis, a result of blocked Black Sea grain deliveries. This deal put an end to months of negotiations and sent wheat prices as low as levels seen before only during Moscow’s invasion.  This deal signifies the first major deal between the two presently warring parties since Russia’s February invasion of Russia. The deal will aid in easing the “acute hunger” that the United…

The protestors that forced Wickremesinghe’s predecessor to flee the country are skeptical of the new rule. On Thursday, Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s eighth executive President at a ceremony in the Parliament in the country’s capital, Colombo. He took the oath of office before the Chief Justice following an inspection of a guard of honour alongside the Speaker of the Parliament at the entrance of the Parliamentary Complex. Wickremesinghe roundly defeated his main rival for the position, Dullus Alahapperuma, with 134 votes to 82 in a parliamentary vote. He is due to serve the rest of the presidential term…

Agnipath Scheme requires Agniveers to submit caste and religion certificates, however, BJP clarifies that caste does not play a role in the selection process. Recent Controversy revolving around Agniveers In a recent controversy regarding the Agnipath Scheme, Opposition parties have alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party has now made the submission of the aspirants’ caste and religion certificates mandatory for their recruitment. Furthermore, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has accused BJP of aiming to create an army of “Jaativeers” by manipulating the Agnipath Scheme. Meanwhile, the Rashtriya Janata Dal’s (RJD) leader, Tejashwi Yadav has made claims that there is an RSS-influenced caste bias…

Wickremesinghe strives to follow the constitutional process and establish law and order in the crisis-hit country by making his first two promises as acting president. On Friday, July 15, Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Acting President in the wake of the Speaker of Parliament, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, accepting former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation letter sent once he fled the country. Upon taking on his new position, the Acting President describes the current situation in Sri Lanka as “dangerous,” and that he would not “allow anything unconstitutional” to occur. This move serves as a precedent for the parliamentary process to…

In a recent civil miscellaneous appeal, the court regarded the mangalsutra as the symbol of the continuance of married life and can only be removed at the husband’s death. As a result of a recent civil miscellaneous appeal filed by C Sivakumar, a professor in a medical college in Erode, a division bench of Justices V. M. Velumani and S. Sounthar of the Madras High Court has observed the removal of the mangalsutra by an estranged wife as subjecting the husband to “mental cruelty of the highest order.” Furthermore, they have granted divorce to the appellant, Sivakumar, on the same…

Tetsuya Yamagami’s mother belonged to the South Korean-founded Unification Church. From the church, an ongoing police investigation into the assassination has elicited confirmation from Tomihiro Tanaka, president of the Japanese branch of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, known as the Unification Church, that Yamagami’s mother is a member of their church. This revelation comes after Yamagami, 41, confessed to the police that he held a “grudge” against a religious organization, without naming it, because his mother had made significant donations to them, leading to the subsequent financial ruin of the family. The church declined to comment on the alleged donation to the church organization. According to…

MacGann, who lobbied for Uber’s Europe, Africa and the Middle East expansion between 2014 and 2016 leaked 124,000 comprising documents to The Guardian that constitutes The Uber Files. Mark MacGann, a longtime former top executive and lobbyist of Uber’s European expansion, revealed his identity as the whistleblower behind Uber Files, the astonishing revelations into the popular cab-service company’s inner functioning. The cache of internal emails, text messages from Uber executives and other crucial documents, presentations, notes and invoices which MacGann leaked to The Guardian, who consequently shared it with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The Uber Files date…