New Delhi: India reported on Friday 132,364 new coronavirus infections over the last 24 hours, while deaths rose by 2,713. The tally of infections stood at 28.6 million and the death toll at 340,702, the health ministry said. Due to the unprecedented deadly second wave of coronavirus,
Aceh: A boat filled with dozens of Rohingya, mostly women and children, landed on an island off the Indonesian coast early Friday, according to an AFP reporter and the UN refugee agency. It is the latest wave of arrivals by the persecuted minority in Muslim-majority Indonesia,
Islamabad: Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Economic Cooperation Organization (PAECO) on Tuesday strongly condemned human rights violations in Indian-Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), a statement by the National Assembly said. The unanimous declaration was made by the organization’s Executive Council meeting, attended by
Tehran: Iran slammed the United Nations’ decision to suspend its voting rights for failing to pay its dues as “fundamentally flawed, entirely unacceptable and completely unjustified”. Tehran argues that the $16.2 million it owes to the UN is the result of Washington’s crippling sanctions, imposed after
Melbourne: Australian health officials say that the new Delta coronavirus variant which originated in India has been detected in Melbourne. Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said the Delta variant had been identified in two cases. He said the cases were “unrelated to all of the other
United Nations: The United Nations Security Council called on Huthi rebels to allow inspectors to visit a long-abandoned fuel tanker off Yemen "without further delay". The 15-member council held a special meeting on FSO Safer at the request of Britain after the rebels said an agreement
New Delhi: A large number of farmers had reached Delhi’s borders on 26 November last year after facing water cannons and police barriers as part of their 'Delhi Chalo' march against the Centre’s farm laws The government is conspiring to shift the farmers' agitation from Delhi
Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh High Court directed the striking junior doctors in the state to resume their duties within 24 hours but the protesting medicos remained defiant and nearly 3,000 of them resigned from their posts and announced they will challenge the ruling. The HC termed
New Delhi: Expectations for India’s economic growth are being revised sharply lower as a surge in people losing their jobs and defaulting on debt suggest a more halting recovery from the financial shock of the COVID-19 pandemic. Economists are downgrading their estimates as a range of
New Delhi: The Kisan Ekta Morcha, spearheading the farmers' stir on Delhi borders for over six months, on Friday slammed Hindi TV channel Aaj Tak for "misreporting about the farmers' protest. It tweeted, "In one way or other, farmers' voices are being suppressed due to fake