Makrauli: Blasting catchy pro-farmer songs from a speaker, an electric-blue tractor rattled down an Indian village road collecting pails of milk -- just some of the donations sustaining massive protest camps outside New Delhi. More than two months after the first farmers set up camps on
Bengaluru: South Africa has asked the Serum Institute of India to take back the one million COVID-19 vaccine doses the company had sent in early February, The Economic Times reported on Tuesday, a week after the country said it will put on hold use of
United Nations: The United Nations’ peacekeeping activity should continue developing despite the restrictions over the coronavirus pandemic, Deputy Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Anna Evstigneeva said. "Despite the unprecedented circumstances caused by the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, it is important that UN peacekeeping
Kabul: Sixty-five journalists, media professionals and human rights defenders were killed in Afghanistan between 1 January 2018 and 31 January 2021, with 11 losing their lives since the start of peace negotiations last September, the UN Mission in the country said on Tuesday. “This trend, combined
New Delhi: Government and police are more enthusiastic in filing cases under the "colonial" era sedition law but they fail miserably when it comes convicting those accused of committing the offence. The number of sedition cases filed in the past four years since 2015 stood at 191,
Yangon: Myanmar s junta deployed extra troops around the country and choked the internet for the second night in a row as it intensified a crackdown on anti-coup protests, but defiant demonstrators again took to the streets. The military has steadily escalated efforts to quell an
Colombo: Sri Lanka's Election Commission Chairman Nimal Punchihewa shot down reports of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) planning to set up a political unit in the island nation, saying the country's electoral law does not permit such an arrangement. "Any Sri Lankan political party
United Nations: Noting that UN peacekeeping operations are currently not in a position to resolve conflicts, insurgencies and cross-border attacks, Pakistan underscored the need for the Security Council to utilize its mechanisms to promote political solutions for establishing peace in troubled regions. “UN peacekeeping has so
Srinagar: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has appealed to the freedom-loving people of Kashmir to observe a complete shutdown on Wednesday against the expected visit of a selected European parliamentary group to the territory at the behest of India to hoodwink the international community. The APHC
Karachi: Pakistan persistently contributes to "peace and stability in the region", Chief of the Naval Staff (CONS) Admiral Muhammad Amjad Khan Niazi said while addressing the 7th multinational AMAN 2021 naval exercise. Admiral Niazi visited the ships of the foreign navies participating in the naval exercise