Tag: #GretaThunberg
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How Rihanna’s tweet infuriated the Indians
Lahore, 4th February: US pop star Rihanna shared a message on her Twitter account on Wednesday supporting the farmers in India who are protesting for the last two months. Baaghi TV: A single tweet from the American icon angered not only the Indian government but the supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi including showbiz personalities…
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India warns Twitter to block accounts posting about Farmers’ Protests
New Delhi, 3rd February: India warns the micro-blogging website Twitter to block accounts posting about the ongoing farmers’ protests. Baaghi TV: India has issued a warning to the Twitter platform to comply with orders to block accounts and content related to farmers’ protest, a technology ministry source said on Wednesday. According to reports, after the…
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Kangana Ranaut lashes out at Rihanna and Greta Thunberg
Lahore, 3rd February: The American pop star Rihanna has recently expressed her reaction to the farmers protesting in India. Baaghi TV: Singer Rihanna shared a news piece on her Twitter account from a foreign news agency stating that a ‘tractor rally’ was organized by farmers in New Delhi on January 26 during which protesters broke…
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Swedish activist trolls Trump amidst US Elections?
NEW YORK: Greta Thunberg, renowned Swedish activist working for environmental change, has reportedly responded to a tweet by US President, Donald Trump. Kaun Banega Crorepati 12 to get its first crorepati Shraddha Kapoor beats Deepika Padukone on Instagram as 3rd most followed Indian, with 56.5 mn According to sources, about 11 months ago today, when…
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Teenager Greta Thunberg returns to school
25th August: Greta Thunberg is back in class after a year off for the climate change campaign. According to reports from the AFP, Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg has returned to school on Monday after a year off due to her campaign to curb climate change. My gap year from school is over, and it…
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Pakistani Student Wins International Film Award
Sarah Jehaan Khan, a Pakistani student at Manfield College Oxford University recently won the first prize at Girls Impact the World Film Festival. Sarah’s film Passoon (پاسون) which means; rising for a good cause revolves around a female protagonist Manal Shad – a young climate activist in Dir, Pakistan. In an interview with, Sarah shared…
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Thunberg, Trump to offer competing visions at climate-focused Davos
Davos, Switzerland, Jan 21 (AFP/APP): The starkly opposed visions of US President Donald Trump and Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg on climate change will clash in Davos on Tuesday as the World Economic Forum tries to face up to the perils of global warming on its 50th meeting. The four-day gathering of the world’s top…
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time’ 2019 person of the year
New York, Dec 11 (AFP/APP): Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg was chosen as Time magazine’s 2019 Person of the Year, the magazine announced Wednesday. The 16-year-old has found herself in the role of spokesperson for a generation haunted by climate emergency since her solo strike against global warming outside Sweden’s parliament last year. The…
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Climate change poses ‘lifelong’ child health risk
Paris, Nov 14 (AFP/APP): Climate change will damage the health of an entire generation unless there are immediate cuts to fossil fuel emissions, from a rise in deadly infectious diseases to surging malnutrition, experts warned Thursday. Children across the world were already suffering the ill effects of air pollution and extreme weather events, said The…
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Trump ‘so extreme’ on climate, Greta Thunberg tells AFP
Hampton, United States, Nov 13 (AFP/APP): Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg said Tuesday that US President Donald Trump’s climate change denialism was “so extreme” that it had helped galvanize the movement to halt long term planetary warming. She spoke in an interview with AFP on the eve of her departure from North America where she…