Category: World
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Australian deputy PM Barnaby Joyce kicked out because of dual citizenship
News Desk Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and four other politicians have been disqualified from office by the country’s high court for holding dual citizenship. Australia’s constitution says that legislators must have only Australian nationality. Though he was born in New South Wales, Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce also held New Zealand nationality when…
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Astrology, homeopathy bogus, says Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
By Dinesh K Sharma NEW DELHI: Indian-born Nobel laureate scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has rubbished astrology and homeopathy as `bogus’ and harmful. Delivering the Har Gobind Khorana lecture on ‘On Nobody’s Word: Evidence and Modern Science’ at Panjab University in Chandigarh on Tuesday, Ramakrishnan, who is a structural biologist at Cambridge University and was awarded the…
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Pakistani Sikh girl Manbir Kaur tops matriculation exams
Topper Pakistani Sikh girl Manbir Kaur is the daughter of Gurdwara Sri Nankana Sahib head priest Giani Prem Singh News East West NEW DELHI: A 15-year-old Sikh girl in Pakistan has topped the matriculation exams. Manbir Kaur, a student at Shri Guru Nanak Devji High School at Nankana Sahib, topped the exams by scoring 1,035 marks…
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UN declares June 21 as International Yoga Day
News East West NEW YORK: The United Nations on December 11 declared June 21 as International Yoga day. Introduced by India and co-sponsored by 175 other nations, the resolution on International Yoga Day was adopted unanimously by the 193-member UN general assembly. The adoption of International Yoga Day comes after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi…