Athens : Three large wildfires churned across Greece on Saturday, with one threatening whole towns and cutting a line across Evia, the country”s second-largest island, isolating its northern part. Others engulfed forested mountainsides and skirted ancient sites, leaving behind a trail of destruction that one official described as “a biblical catastrophe.” A flotilla of 10 … Read more
Fort Lauderdale : The COVID-19 outbreak in the United States crossed 100,000 new confirmed daily infections Saturday, a milestone last exceeded during the winter surge and driven by the highly transmissible delta variant and low vaccination rates in the South. Health officials fear that cases, hospitalizations and deaths will continue to soar if more Americans … Read more
Lahore : Police in Pakistan”s Punjab province on Saturday said they have arrested 20 people and booked over 150 others for their alleged involvement in an attack on a Hindu temple in a remote town of the country, a day after the Supreme Court admonished the authorities for their failure to protect the shrine. A … Read more
Hindus are urging for a permanent and dedicated Prayer Room at University of Western Australia (UWA), a public research institution which claims to be a “leading global university”. UWA already has a Chapel and Muslim Prayer Room; and lists Anglican, Catholic and Islamic Chaplains on its website. Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in … Read more
Washington : A newly married Indian woman who arrived in the United States in March has been running from pillar to post for the past several weeks to get justice, alleging torture by her husband. “My husband has abandoned me without any financial support. I have no place to go. My parents in India sought … Read more