London: Rising global temperatures have shifted at least twice the amount of freshwater from warm regions towards the Earth’s poles than previously thought as the water cycle intensifies, according to new analysis. Climate change has intensified the global water cycle by up to 7.4% – compared
Bangui: The U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic has rejected accusations that four of its personnel who were arrested were engaged in suspicious activity. The C.A.R.’s public prosecutor said the four men, arrested at the airport shortly before the arrival of the country’s
Bengaluru: Students in the Indian state of Karnataka, especially those studying in Class 10 and Class 12, who are being barred from entering the schools and colleges for wearing Hijab, are likely to miss their annual exams. As per the Karnataka High Court’s interim order, students
New Delhi: India has announced a 2022–23 defence budget of INR5.25 trillion (USD70.2 billion), an increase of almost 10% over the initial allocation in 2021–22. The allocation is equal to about 13% of the government's total expenditure for the year, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD)
Samar Halarnkar “A journalist must run the risk of being misunderstood, and should take care to make his meaning plain. If his intentions are really loyal, there can be no difficulty in doing so. If not, he cannot complain of being punished.” That was how a
New York: UN human rights experts have said that investigative journalist Rana Ayyub has been subjected to “judicial harassment” and urged Indian authorities to “promptly” investigate “relentless misogynistic and sectarian” attacks on social media against her. Ayyub, who is a columnist with the Washington Post, has
Lucknow: Amid ongoing hijab row in the Indian state of Karnataka, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Member of Indian Parliament from Uttar Pradesh, Sakshi Maharaj, has said that a law should be made to ban hijab across India. The BJP MP, after casting vote in
New Delhi: After six Muslim students were denied entry into their classroom for wearing hijabs at the Government Women’s PU College in Karnataka’s Udupi in December last year, many similar incidents have cropped up in educational institutes, first in the state and now across the
Bihar: “This is Hindutva, merely making an organisation is not enough. It has to be run also. That man was with me in my NGO, this is a case of cow slaughter… we just beat him up, i didn't kill him. He died on his
Bengaluru: A college in Bengaluru allegedly asked a 17-year-old Sikh girl to remove her turban citing the Karnataka High Court’s order banning religious attire in educational institutions, The Times of India reported on Thursday. The college was citing the directive of a three-judge bench of the