Founder of the MeToo movement Tarana Burke has said that her campaign that had initially served to fight against sexual violence has now become unrecognisable and misrepresented: “Suddenly, a movement to centre survivors of sexual violence is being talked about as a vindictive plot against men”. Burke has warned that the MeToo campaign is at risk of losing[…]
On Wednesday, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has began a visa-free corridor to allow Indian religious devotees to access a holy site in Kartarpur, Pakistan’s Punjab province. The temple, known as Gurdwara Durbar Sahib, is reportedly the first temple ever built and the resting place of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak who was worshipped by both Hindus and Muslims.[…]
The NASA InSight mission has successfully touched down on the red planet after travelling for seven months through space. The spacecraft had cruised for 301,223,981 miles and was followed by two cube satellites. After the anxious wait, InSight had sent a signal to NASA reporting that it was still alive and safe on the ground. NASA’s mission control[…]
On Friday morning, armed attackers raided a Chinese consulate in the southern Pakistani city Karachi. The gunmen first killed two policemen before entering the consulate, security officials have said. All three gunmen were killed by police and the building was secured just after the attack. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has stated at a press conference: “All[…]
American Christian John Allen Chau has been killed by a tribe as he set foot on the North Sentinel Island which is part of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. The island is home to a 30,000-year-old tribe, the Sentinelese. The tribe is protected by an Indian law that allows them to keep their way of[…]