Ankara: Global food prices went down modestly in May for the second consecutive month, although prices of wheat and poultry rose, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said. The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of a basket of
Sochi: The head of the African Union Macky Sall has told Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting that African countries are innocent victims of the war in Ukraine and Russia should help ease their suffering. After talks in Sochi, Macky Sall said the Russian leader
New York: The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said has said that it was aware of more than 700 global cases of monkeypox, including 21 in the US, with investigations now suggesting it is spreading inside the country. Sixteen of the first 17
United Nations: Two UN peacekeepers were killed when their armored personnel carrier hit an improvised explosive device in central Mali in the sixth incident in less than two weeks targeting the UN mission in the West African nation that has faced a decade-long Islamic insurgency. UN
Qaisar Mansoor The world observed International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression on every June 4 since 1982. The purpose of the day is to acknowledge the pain suffered by children throughout the world who are the victims of physical, mental and emotional abuse. This day
New York: A scheduled talk by US-based Dalit activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan was cancelled by Google after the company allegedly buckled under pressure from employees who claimed that their “lives were at risk” if Thenmozhi went ahead. The presentation was supposed to be part of the
Srinagar: The Indian government, like it did in the decade of 1990s, was again forcing the Kashmiri Pandits to migrate from the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), and the blame for this migration was once again being put on Pakistan and the Kashmiri
Islamabad: Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari wrote a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to apprise him of the circumstances of Yasin Malik’s conviction in a manifestly-dubious and politically-motivated case filed by the Indian National Investigation Agency, his chronic ailment and
Kochi: Numbers tell several worrying tales in ‘State of India’s Environment: In Figures’, a report published by the Centre for Science and Environment and Down to Earth magazine on June 2. Two-thirds of India’s rivers are contaminated with heavy metals. Climate change is increasing internal migration in
Allahabad: The Allahabad high court has granted bail to an accused in a cow slaughter case on the condition that he will serve at a cow shelter for a month. The accused was further asked to deposit Rs 1 lakh in favour of a registered cow