Al Kontar had to spend seven months at the airport in Kuala Lumpur where he survived on rice packets and slept on chair. The world came to know about his ordeal through popular video channel Nas Daily and today, while staying in the assuring ambience in Whistler, Canada, Al Kontar looks back at his life and turns philosophical.
Getting delayed in returning a book borrowed from a library is not uncommon but what if the delay is by over seven decades? Well, a recent incident in the US showed that even that is not something impossible. The borrower of a children's book called 'The Postman' recently returned it to a public library in Washington DC and it got late by 73 years...
Iranian Army chief Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri on Monday, February 18, said that Pakistan has begun operations against terrorists since Saturday, February 16. On Wednesday, February 13, a car laden with explosives hit a bus packed with Iran's Revolutionary Guards near the Iran-Pakistan border, killing 27 soldiers while injuring another 13.
Someone's loss is always someone else's gain. As the US continues with its de facto ban on import of crudes from Venezuela, the Latin American nation which is in the middle of a political crisis after Opposition leader Juan Guaido challenged President Nicolas Maduro to proclaim himself as the interim president, India has gained.