Zurich: Climate activists briefly blocked the entrances to the UBS and Credit Suisse headquarters in Zurich in protest against fossil fuel funding by Switzerland’s two biggest banks. Environmentalist organisations including Extinction Rebellion and Climate Strike staged the demonstration in which groups of around 30 to 40
Moscow: Russia's ambassador to the United States said Washington had asked 24 Russian diplomats to leave the country by September 3 after their visas expired. Anatoly Antonov did not say whether the US request was prompted by any particular dispute, and there was no immediate comment
Seattle: The divorce between Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, cofounders of one of the world’s largest private charitable foundations, was finalized, a court document showed. The couple filed for divorce on May 3 after 27 years of marriage but pledged to continue their philanthropic work
Geneva: The United Nations on Tuesday called on the Ukrainian authorities to conduct a thorough investigation after a missing Belarusian activist was found hanged in a park in Kiev. The UN human rights office said the intimidation of civil society in Belarus had to stop, but
London: Britain opened its borders to fully vaccinated travelers from the US and the European Union as travel industry leaders urged the government to further ease restrictions and allow people to enjoy the benefits of a successful Covid-19 inoculation programme. The new rules came into effect
Islamabad: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has said that nuclear clash between Pakistan and India on the Kashmir dispute is "not merely an apprehension but a visible reality". "If the international community does not come forward to resolve the Kashmir issue and
Gurgaon: A Dalit man who runs a school was allegedly thrashed, stripped and paraded around a Sohna village by a group of 40, all of them purportedly from the dominant caste group in the locality, from for helping a 19-year-old rape survivor file a police
Islamabad: President of the Arab Parliament Adel Abdul Rahman Al-Asoomi appreciated the role Pakistan has played in Muslim causes and promotion of peace in the region during a meeting with Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi. It was the first visit to the country by a delegation
New Delhi: India recorded 30,549 new Covid-19 cases, 422 deaths in last 24 hours, said the data released by the Union health ministry on Tuesday. The active Covid-19 cases have declined to 4,04,958. India's total tally of cases is now 3,17,26,507 and total death toll reached 4,25,195,
New Delhi: Five journalists, reported to have been under surveillance through Pegasus software, have moved the Supreme Court for a judicial oversight mechanism to be set up to deal with complaints. Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, S.N.M. Abdi, Prem Shankar Jha, Rupesh Kumar Singh and Ipsa Shataksi have