Chennai: As protests against agricultural reforms catch global attention, India’s neglected women farmers are seizing the moment to dust off their own long-standing demands - from land rights and farm credit to grains subsidies. Hundreds of miles from the sit-in demonstrations near the capital, Ponnuthai said
Ankara: Turkey, Russia, and Iran are expected to discuss the situation on the ground in Syria and the political process as well as efforts to draw up a new constitution for the country. The Astana process guarantors will meet in the 15th round of Syria peace
New York: The United Nations has highlighted the important work carried out by Morocco in pushing forwards the peace process in Libya. In this regard, the new UN envoy to Libya, Jan Kubis, has had various contacts on the Libyan issue with the Moroccan Minister
Daoud Kuttab Amman: As the contours of US President Joe Biden’s foreign policy become increasingly apparent, doubts about his commitment to resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict continue to grow. And those doubts raise an urgent question: Can anyone fill the diplomatic vacuum the United States leaves behind? The
Makrauli: Blasting catchy pro-farmer songs from a speaker, an electric-blue tractor rattled down an Indian village road collecting pails of milk -- just some of the donations sustaining massive protest camps outside New Delhi. More than two months after the first farmers set up camps on
Bengaluru: South Africa has asked the Serum Institute of India to take back the one million COVID-19 vaccine doses the company had sent in early February, The Economic Times reported on Tuesday, a week after the country said it will put on hold use of
United Nations: The United Nations’ peacekeeping activity should continue developing despite the restrictions over the coronavirus pandemic, Deputy Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Anna Evstigneeva said. "Despite the unprecedented circumstances caused by the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, it is important that UN peacekeeping
Kabul: Sixty-five journalists, media professionals and human rights defenders were killed in Afghanistan between 1 January 2018 and 31 January 2021, with 11 losing their lives since the start of peace negotiations last September, the UN Mission in the country said on Tuesday. “This trend, combined
New Delhi: Government and police are more enthusiastic in filing cases under the "colonial" era sedition law but they fail miserably when it comes convicting those accused of committing the offence. The number of sedition cases filed in the past four years since 2015 stood at 191,
Yangon: Myanmar s junta deployed extra troops around the country and choked the internet for the second night in a row as it intensified a crackdown on anti-coup protests, but defiant demonstrators again took to the streets. The military has steadily escalated efforts to quell an