New Delhi: The Supreme Court allowed the pleas of several women SSC officers seeking grant of permanent commission in the Army and held that the ACR evaluation process was flawed and discriminatory in nature. The apex court said the Annual Confidential Report (ACR) evaluation criteria for
New Delhi: The Brazilian health regulator Anvisa – short for Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitári – has denied a request to import doses of Covaxin, made in India by Hyderabad-based pharma company Bharat Biotech, for use in the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination drive. Bharat Biotech has an
Islamabad: Cabinet has approved the Harassment of Women at Workplace (Amendment) Bill 2021, which will now be laid before the National Assembly for further approval and implementation, Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari confirmed on Friday. The minister on Twitter said the bill seeks to
Hualieni: A Taiwan express train with almost 500 aboard derailed in a tunnel on Friday, killing at least 48 passengers and injuring 66 in the island’s worst rail disaster in almost four decades. Images from the scene showed carriages in the tunnel ripped apart by the
Tokyo: Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will hold face-to-face talks with Joe Biden in Washington on April 16, as the first foreign leader hosted by the US president, the Japanese government said Friday. Local media had reported the trip would take place next week, but top
Karen: Civilians wounded in Myanmar airstrikes on rebel positions spoke of their terrifying ordeal after trekking through the jungle to seek medical treatment across the border in Thailand. Military jets hit targets in eastern Karen state as Myanmar reeled from the deadliest day so far in
London: A 121-year-old chocolate bar, from a batch commissioned by Queen Victoria for British troops fighting in South Africa, has been found in its original tin in the attic of an English manor. The chocolate belonged to an English aristocrat who fought in the Second Boer
Washington: US President Joe Biden s administration said that Israel s control of the West Bank is indeed "occupation," clarifying its stance after the release of a report that seemed to downplay the term, adopting language used by Donald Trump s government. The State Department s
New Delhi: India is on the verge of losing its status as a democracy due to the severely shrinking of space for the media, civil society and the opposition under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, the 2020 ‘Democracy Report’ by the Sweden-based V-Dem Institute has
Riyadh: A senior Saudi official said on Thursday he rejected claims that he issued a death threat against UN investigator Agnes Callamard following her probe into journalist Jamal Khashoggi's 2018 murder. At a meeting with UN officials in Geneva in January 2020, a senior Saudi official