Damascus: At the children’s cancer ward in a hospital in the Syrian capital of Damascus, children walk down brightly painted corridors, hooked up to IV needles delivering critical treatment into their bloodstream. Nurses tend to babies and teenagers getting chemotherapy sit in reclining chairs. Other children,
London: The war in Ukraine is the conflict where spies came in from the cold and took center stage. Since Russia invaded its neighbor in late February, intelligence agencies in the U.S. and Britain have been remarkably willing to go public with their secret intelligence assessments
German Lopez Among the headline-grabbing wildfires, droughts and floods, it is easy to feel disheartened about climate change. I felt this myself when a United Nations panel released the latest major report on global warming. It said that humanity was running out of time to avert some
Washington: The United Nations, US and Nato leaders voiced shock and horror at new evidence of atrocities against civilians in Ukraine, and warned that Russian troop movements away from Kyiv did not signal a withdrawal or end to the violence. Evidence of possible civilian killings around
Telangana: A 38-year-old man bitten by rats in the respiratory intensive care unit (ICU) was left bleeding in a hospital in Telangana and passed away after being transferred to a different hospital, NDTV reported. Srinivas reportedly had a history of alcoholism with his liver and pancreas
Lakhimpur Kheri: The Supreme Court-appointed committee has filed its status report in the Lakhimpur Kheri case. It said that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case had recommended the cancellation of the bail granted to prime accused Ashish Mishra twice to the Uttar Pradesh
Qaisar Mansoor Communist Party of India (CPI) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury has called India's foreign policy a “destroyed one" by BJP government which is not in the best interest of the country. He said, "When the Ukraine war broke out, India was in a dilemma with
Karnataka: In the latest campaign targeting Muslims, Hindutva organizations and BJP leaders in the Karnataka state have begun raising objections to sale of ‘Halal’ meat. The development comes in the wake of the recent ban calls made by the right wing groups on Muslim shops
London: Amnesty International in its ‘Annual Report’ 2021-22 slammed India for “putting human rights defenders at heightened risk of surveillance” by Modi government agencies in IIOJK. Indian authorities used repressive laws to silence critics by curbing freedom of expression both offline and online. Human rights defenders,
Shoaib Daniyal For months now, the southern state of Karnataka has been on the boil as Hindutva groups launch campaign after campaign against the state’s minorities. January saw mobilisation against the wearing of the hijab in some colleges. Some Hindu male students started a coordinated campaign