Srinagar: At least 23 prisoners are COVID positive and 219 inmates are under quarantine across prisons of the territory in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). An official handout released by the authorities reads that 4,572 inmates are lodged in 13 jails of the territory.

Vatican: Pope Francis calls for peace and a shared solution to the violence occurring in Jerusalem, as Palestinian protesters continue to clash with Israeli police. After renewed clashes in the streets of Jerusalem, Pope Francis  urged all parties to seek a common solution and put aside

London: Prince Michael of Kent was willing to use his royal status for personal profit, and provide access to Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime, a Sunday Times and Channel 4 report says. The Queen's cousin was filmed at a meeting in which undercover reporters were told

New Delhi: Covid-19 is surging through India, resulting in record-breaking numbers of new cases with medicine, oxygen, and vaccines in tragically short supply. Amy Braunschweiger speaks with South Asia director Meenakshi Ganguly about how this humanitarian crisis is exposing India’s underlying human rights issues, and

Gaza: At least 22 Palestinians were martyred, among them nine children, as Israel launched military strikes in Gaza following heightened tensions between the law enforcement agencies in Jerusalem with Palestinian civilians. On the other hand, Israel claimed it had struck 130 "military targets" in Gaza and

Bengaluru: The Indian government has told doctors to look out for signs of mucormycosis or “black fungus” in Covid-19 patients as hospitals report a rise in cases of the rare but potentially fatal infection. The state-run Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said at the weekend

Moscow: At least seven school children and one teacher were killed on Tuesday and many more wounded after a lone teenage gunman opened fire in a school in the Russian city of Kazan, the mayor s office said, prompting a Kremlin call for tighter gun

Brussels: The European Union’s top economy official said on Monday that the recovery measures the EU and its 27 member states have in the works to emerge from the pandemic total around $5.85 trillion. EU Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni told a European Parliament committee that if

Islamabad: The arrest of two persons with 7kgs of natural uranium by Maharashtra police has authenticated that Modi-led Indian regime is a threat to global security, particularly in the backdrop of the revelation that the duo had advertised the offered price of about Rs. 21

Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) said that the coronavirus variant first identified in India last year was being classified as a variant of global concern, with some preliminary studies showing that it spreads more easily. The B.1.617 variant is the fourth variant to be designated