IN February 2021, Covid-19 numbers started rising again in South Asia with official daily case counts rising beyond 400,000 in India, 6,000 in Pakistan and 7,500 in Bangladesh, straining health systems. The massive surge in India soon spilled over across the border into Nepal, leading
Washington: The Democratic-led House, with the backing of President Joe Biden, passed legislation on Thursday to repeal the 2002 authorisation for use of military force in Iraq, a step supporters said was necessary for Congress to reassert its constitutional duty to weigh in on matters
Marwan Bishara The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is trying to find its way back to “normalcy” after four years of drama under the fitful leadership of former US President Donald Trump. This will prove a challenging task. NATO seems to have lost its mojo after Trump deformed
Kuala Lumpur: The United Nations climate chief said that a “significant amount of work” remains to be done ahead of November’s COP26 summit in Britain, with developing nations warning issues of finance and vaccine inequity could derail a successful outcome. At the end of three weeks
Yangon: The Rohingya refugee crisis which escalated in 2017 caused a massive influx of refugees into Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported in March 2019, that over 909,000 Rohingya refugees resided in Ukhiya and Teknaf Upazilas
Peshawar: Owing to a rise in the number of coronavirus cases in Afghanistan, Pakistan has imposed new travel bans on the Pak-Afghan border and has closed the Pak-Afghan friendship gate in Chaman for bilateral pedestrian traffic. According to Deputy Commissioner Chaman Tariq Mengal, as per the
Jalandhar: Two villages of Malerkotla and Moga districts of Punjab have become examples of Sikh-Muslim unity at a time when hate crimes have become everyday news. In the newly formed Malerkotla district, a Sikh man has donated his ancestral land to seven Muslim families to construct
New Delhi: Four days after popular political cartoonist Manjul received a notice from Twitter stating that Indian authorities had instructed it to take action against his page, he was suspended with “immediate effect” from Network 18 on June 8, The Wire has learned. He had
New Delhi: With the ongoing farmers’ agitation in and around the national capital in its 204th day, more than 500 farmers linked to the protests have passed away. According to South Asian Wire, the toll at the farmers’ protest stands at 512 on Thursday. This data
Rohan Venkataramakrishnan New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government cannot stand its narratives being questioned. Control of the narrative is the very foundation of Modi’s hold on power. As a consequence, any entity that threatens to puncture the balloon is treated like an enemy. That is why the