Politics

Daddy teaser: Who is Arun Gawli, what is the BRA gang and everything else you need to know about the Arjun Rampal film

Here is an effort by International Business Times, India, to shed some light on who Arun Gawli is, and what he is (in)famous for.

Nov 30, 2016

Nick Clegg: Government are ‘completely clueless’ about Brexit

The Liberal Democrats can pull off an astonishing win and dethrone Zac Goldsmith in the Richmond Park and North Kingston by-election on Thursday (1 December), Nick Clegg has claimed. The former deputy prime minister told IBTimes UK that Liberal Democrat candidate Sarah Olney will beat Eurosceptic Goldsmith because of fears of a hard Brexit.

Nov 30, 2016

Why Donald Trump's presidency is a reason to worry for the US porn industry

The GOP, on its party platform, has called porn a "public menace" and a "public health crisis."

Nov 30, 2016

Donald Trump to leave business operations to focus on presidency

Trump says it is 'visually' important that there is no conflict of interest.

Nov 30, 2016

Austria election: Holocaust survivor urges people not to vote for far-right party

A Holocaust survivors plea to the people of Austria has gone viral ahead of the countrys presidential election. Gertrude, known only by her first name, has appealed to Austrians not to allow the far-right Freedom Party to gain power. In the video published on Facebook she says that the actions of the Freedom Party and its candidate Norbert Hofer are similar to that of the Nazis in Austria and Germany in the 1930s. It’s the humiliation of others, the demonisation of others, that alarms me the most. And that was the case once before, she said. Austrias presidential vote re-run is on 4 December and if Hofer wins, he will be the European Unions first far-right head of state.

Nov 29, 2016

Global warming has caused biggest ever coral die-off on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Experts says that warm seas have killed more than two-thirds of largest stretch Great Barrier Reef in the world.

Nov 29, 2016

Evening wrap: J&K terror attack in Nagrota, Sonia Gandhi in hospital, Radhika Apte to play nude MMS victim, and more

Read about the Lok Sabha passing the income tax amendment bill, and scientists saying aliens are already on Earth.

Nov 29, 2016

Jaitley calls Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu to head committee of CMs to suggest ways to move to cashless economy

Naidu is an ally of the BJP and has supported the move to ban Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes to curb the menace of black money.

Nov 29, 2016

Sonia Gandhi admitted to hospital; will her continued ill-health pave the way for Rahul to be Congress president?

Sonia Gandhi has been admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi for viral fever.

Nov 29, 2016

What is the Khalistan Movement, and why does it want a separate nation?

International Business Times, India, takes a look at what led to the beginning of the movement, and how it played out.

Nov 28, 2016

Paul Nuttall succeeds Nigel Farage as new Ukip leader

North West MEP Paul Nuttall has been elected as the new leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip), succeeding interim leader Nigel Farage.

Nov 28, 2016

Evening wrap: Bharat Bandh details, Indo-Pak talks, Victoria's Secret models sizzle, and more

Read about I-T Department seizing Rs 40 crore from Delhi bank, and reindeer to deliver Dominos pizzas in Japan.

Nov 28, 2016

Pakistan wants talks with India, but why does it want New Delhi to propose the dialogue?

The talks could take place next week, when Pakistan's Foreign Affairs Advisor Sartaj Aziz visits India for the Heart of Asia conference.

Nov 28, 2016

Francois Fillon achieves landslide primary win for French conservative party The Republicans

Francois Fillon, a social conservative from France’s Catholic right and former prime minister, won Frances Les Republicains party primary on 27 November. He will now contest next springs presidential election.With votes from four-fifths of 10,228 polling stations counted, Fillon, who went into the second-round run-off as firm favourite, had won over 67% of the vote in a head-to-head battle with another ex-prime minister, Alain Juppe.All eyes now turn to the ruling Socialist party and to whether President Francois Hollande will decide to run for the left-wing ticket in his partys primaries in January.Opinion polls suggest neither he nor any left-wing candidate would make the second round of the presidential election itself next May, leaving Fillon a clear run at the anti-EU, anti-immigration National Front leader Le Pen that the surveys predict him to win.

Nov 28, 2016

Why are Italians protesting against their Prime Minister Matteo Renzi?

Renzi has said that he has no intention of hanging around if he loses the referendum on December 4.

Nov 28, 2016