Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale was not a ‘terrorist’, declassify Operation Blue Star files: Subramanian Swamy

Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale was not a ‘terrorist’, declassify Operation Blue Star files: Subramanian Swamy

New Delhi : Bhartiya Janata Party leader and newly appointed Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy on Saturday termed the 1984 Operation Blue Star “foolishness on the part of the then prime minister Indira Gandhi”. Swamy while addressing the students said the leader of Damdami Taksal, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale was not a terrorist and demanded to […]

Obama says he is adamant against racially profiling Sikhs

Obama says he is adamant against racially profiling Sikhs

New York : US President Barack Obama insisted on Saturday that it was not his administration’s policy to target people based on their looks at airports, but said keeping people safe and preventing terrorism was one of his “biggest challenges”. Responding to questions from a young Sikh at a town hall-type meeting in Westminster on […]

First signs of coral bleaching in Sydney Harbour

First signs of coral bleaching in Sydney Harbour

SYDNEY : Coral bleaching has been detected in Sydney Harbour for the first time, Australian scientists said Tuesday, blaming the damaging phenomenon also found in the Great Barrier Reef on warming sea-surface temperatures. Aerial surveys of the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef off Queensland’s coast last month revealed the worst bleaching on record along a […]

Tokyo cat cafe shut down for animal neglect

Tokyo cat cafe shut down for animal neglect

TOKYO : A Tokyo “cat cafe” has been raided by health inspectors and ordered to close its doors due to animal neglect after complaints about nasty smells coming from the premises. The “Neko no Te” (cat’s paw) cafe – one of many in Tokyo where guests can stroke the fluffy felines while sipping on a […]

Fossilised tooth of gigantic ‘killer’ whale found

Fossilised tooth of gigantic ‘killer’ whale found

SYDNEY: A huge, five-million-year-old whale tooth has been discovered on an Australian beach, providing the first evidence of the now extinct killer sperm whale outside the Americas. The 30-centimetre-long (12-inch) fossilised tooth, which is larger than that of a Tyrannosaurus rex, was found by a fossil enthusiast at Beaumaris Bay near Melbourne in February. “After I […]