Assam: Last week, 21-year-old Biki Ali and 38-year-old Rajesh Munda were shot dead by the Assam Police. Both were rape accused, killed within a day of their arrest. The police claimed they were trying to flee custody when they were shot. At least 35 people have
Haryana: The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) will hold a nationwide protest on Monday (today) to protest against Modi govt for not ‘fulfilling its promises’, including setting up of a panel on MSP and withdrawal of cases against farmers, according to its functionaries. The decision was taken
Male: Former President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom has said that everyone in the current government was a slave of India. Speaking at a gathering held as part of the opposition’s ‘India Out’ campaign protesting against the presence of the Indian military in Maldives, the former President
New Delhi: Quratulain Rehbar was on a public bus in northern India earlier this month when a friend alerted her that her picture had appeared on an app, where she was being advertised as for sale. At first she was numb, she said, but gradually the
Yukta Maheshwari The Black Lives Matter movement observed the death anniversary of George Floyd on 25th May. When the world was talking about racism against black people, India saw its own version of racism. On 25th May itself, a Punjab based YouTuber Paras Singh questioned the
Dr. Diana Galeeva Officials from both Russia and Ukraine expressed cautious optimism this week that peace talks were making progress. However, both sides stress the difficulty of the talks. Among the key disagreements are concerns about what Ukrainian “neutrality” may mean, security guarantees, what this status means
Dubai: The United Nations and aid groups have warned of grave consequences for Yemen after an international pledging conference failed to raise enough money to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in the war-torn country. Overshadowed by the conflict in Ukraine, aid-starved Yemen -- already suffering the world's
Melbourne: The Great Barrier Reef has been hit by bleaching due to heat stress, the Australian agency that manages the reef said on Friday, ahead of a visit by United Nations officials reviewing whether the reef should be listed as being “in danger”. Australia last year
Helsinki: Finland has been named the world’s happiest country for the fifth year running, in an annual UN-sponsored index that ranked Afghanistan as the unhappiest, closely followed by Lebanon. The latest list was completed before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia recorded the biggest
Rome: Aid agencies are struggling to reach people trapped in Ukrainian cities ringed by Russian forces, the UN’s World Food Programme said Saturday, including hundreds of thousands of women and children. “The challenge is to get to the cities that are encircled or about to be