Kathmandu: The United Nations has recognised a troop of Nepal’s Armed Police Force that is currently in Juba of South Sudan as a part of the UN peacekeeping mission as the best team among the peacekeepers in the country. The APF says its Formed Police Unit
New York: UN humanitarian agency says the risk of large-scale famine in the Arab world’s poorest country “has never been more acute." Aftermath of bombardment on a home near Yemen's strategic rebel-held Red Sea port of Hudaida where several civilians including a child were killed on
Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Iran on Monday for a blast aboard an Israeli-owned ship in the Gulf of Oman last week but sidestepped a question on whether Israel would retaliate. The MV Helios Ray, a vehicle-carrier ship, was hit overnight by a blast above
Yangoon: Police in Myanmar have fired tear gas, water cannon and stun grenades at pro-democracy protestors, killing at least 18 people dead, the UN has said. The UN's human rights office said it has received "credible information" that the crackdown on people demonstrating against a military
By Astha Kumari Election times are one of the most unstable times in India. Today, we can easily observe the hegemony of candidates with criminal backgrounds in our elections and the phenomena of criminalisation of Indian politics. As election dates approach, the ruthlessness and desperation to
Justice Markandey Katju 26th January celebrated all over India as Republic Day, the day on which in 1950 the Indian Constitution was promulgated and India declared a Republic. However. I refuse to join this tomfoolery, and I have renamed it Cheer Haran (disrobing) Day. The truth is
Tunis: At least three participants in UN-led Libya peace talks were bribed for votes, experts from the world body found in a report for the Security Council seen by AFP Sunday. Interim prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah was selected early this month during Libyan Political Dialogue
Washington: Members of the Kashmiri diaspora in the US have expressed concern over the death threat to Sushil Pandit, a Kashmiri human rights activist, urging the Indian government to take a stern action against those responsible behind the plot to assassinate him. Pandit is a human
Tehran: Amid the international pressure to suspend its nuclear programme, Iran on Sunday dismissed Europe’s offer for an informal meeting on the troubled 2015 deal, saying the time is not "suitable" as Washington has failed to lift sanctions. The European Union’s political director earlier this month
