New Delhi: As coronavirus cases ravaged India this spring, Anil Sharma visited his 24-year-old son Saurav at a private hospital in northwest New Delhi every day for more than two months. In May, as India’s new COVID-19 cases broke global records to reach 400,000 a

Islamabad: National Security Adviser (NSA) Dr Moeed Yusuf said Afghanistan was forced to become a “sanctuary for terrorists” by India in the past 20 years to fuel terrorism in Pakistan, emphasising that “it must now stop”. In a virtual interview with The Wire journalist Karan Thapar,

Assam: According to NDTV, nine Rohingya refugees, including three women and a child, were arrested from the railway station in Assam’s Guwahati. They were allegedly carrying fake UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) ID cards. A GRP, or Government Railway Police, personnel said the group

Geneva: The death in custody of 84-year-old Catholic priest Stan Swamy, a renowned human rights advocate for over four decades, will forever remain "a stain on India's human rights record," a UN human rights expert said. Swamy, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, was jailed in October

Paris: Their fairy-tale marriage 40 years ago this month was dubbed the “wedding of the century”. But for Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer it would all end in tears, recriminations and tragedy, with the after-effects still being felt by the British royals today. Presidents and prime

Brussels: The European Union warned Bosnian Serb leaders against denying the massacre at Srebrenica as a genocide after they opposed a ban on genocide denial instituted by UN’s representative in Bosnia. “Revisionism and the denial of genocides are in contradiction with the most fundamental European values,”

Baghdad: A drone attack has been carried out on a military base in Iraqi Kurdistan that hosts American troops, without causing any casualties, the US-led coalition said Saturday. The attack comes with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhemi expected to meet US President Joe Biden in Washington

Naples: Energy and environment ministers from the Group of 20 rich nations have failed to agree on the wording of a key climate change commitment in their final communique, Italy’s Ecological Transition Minister Roberto Cingolani said. The G20 meeting was seen as a decisive step ahead

London: The next fortnight will be “crucial” in understanding whether the UK’s third wave of coronavirus is slowing down, or whether the slightly lower case rates of the past few days merely represent another “false peak”, an epidemiologist has said. For six consecutive days, there have