President Xi Jinping gave a strong signal that Beijing is not about to back away from its growing assertiveness in Asia, especially in disputed waters as China announces its biggest rise in military spending in three years. The government has stated that it would increase the defense budget by Continue Reading
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Most designers try to make consumers dream at their fashion shows, but Karl Lagerfeld sought to bring them back into real life by presenting his latest collection in a spoof Chanel supermarket. Paris’ prestigious Grand Palais, where the French brand traditionally hosts its glamorous shows, was filled with endless rows of Chanel-branded pasta, cheeses, sauces, […]Continue Reading
Abhishikta Shetty, the winner of the Miss. South India 2014 title is more than just a beauty queen. She is software engineer at Accenture as well as a part time model. She studied at Little Rock Indian School in Brahmavar, later on went onto do her pre university from Vidyodaya Pre University College in Udupi […]Continue Reading
As the 3rd edition of Miss. & Mr. Mangalore 2014 beauty pageant organized by Fashion ABCD, Mangalore’s 1st model training studio held at Pandit Resort, in Moodbidri wraped up glamorously on Sunday, March 2, Mr. Puneet Jayadev was titled Mr. Mangalore 2014, and Miss. Faheema Fathima was crowned as Miss. Mangalore 2014. The event which […]Continue Reading
After the devastating gang rape that occurred in December 2012 in India’s capital, a 24 hour hotline for women in Delhi had been launched, but now the hotline is at risk of closing down because there is a lack of funds and political upheaval. The helpline had been started in order to address the sexual […]Continue Reading
Japanese regulators are increasing the pressure on regional banks to consolidate, worried that shrinking populations outside the nation’s major cities will leave lenders too weak to stand on their own. After direct prodding from the head of the Financial Services Agency (FSA) for the more than 100 regional banks to slim down through mergers or […]Continue Reading
President Barack Obama will strike a firmly populist tone in his 2015 budget plan on Tuesday, proposing to pay for an expansion of a popular tax credit for the working poor by eliminating tax breaks claimed by wealthy Americans. The proposal to expand one of the most popular U.S. government poverty reduction programs, the Earned […]Continue Reading
The status of five kidnapped Iranian border guards remains unclear, Iran said on Sunday, retracting earlier reports by Iranian military officials that they had been freed in Pakistan. According to an Iranian Interior Ministry, “until now, reports about the fate of the five border guards are not reliable,” An Iranian Sunni Muslim rebel group called […]Continue Reading
There were nine bodies, found in a mass grave in Sri Lanka in the area where the last bloody battle of a 26 year war with Tamil separatists was fought in 2009m Most of the nine bodies were women. The international pressure is growing on Sri Lanka’s government to address the allegations that tens of […]Continue Reading
After a “terrorist attack” occurred at a crowded train station where at least 29 people were killed, China is putting forth all their efforts to seek justice according to the domestic security chief after the militants from the restive region of Xinjiang were blamed for the violence. The authorities stated that a group of knife […]Continue Reading



















