New York: Current and former staffers have accused the top director of the World Health Organization in the Western Pacific of racist, unethical and abusive behavior that has undermined the U.N. health agency’s efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic. The allegations were laid out in an
Washington: Top US General Mark Milley spoke by telephone with his Russian counterpart General Valery Gerasimov, the Pentagon said, amid US warnings that Russia is poised to potentially invade Ukraine. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gerasimov, chief of the Russian General
Male: Maldives National Party (MNP) led by MP Col rt. Mohamed Nazim and former Commissioned of Police Abdulla Riyaz has stated that they are against the controversial law criminalizing the “India Out” movement. At a press conference held by MNP, MP Col ® Mohamed Nazim stated
Washington: World-renowned scholar, author and activist Noam Chomsky has said that Islamophobia has taken a “most lethal form” in India, turning some 250 million Indian Muslims into a “persecuted minority.” “The pathology of Islamophobia is growing throughout the West — [but] it is taking its most
New Delhi: Congress leader and Member of Parliament, Shashi Tharoor, has demanded the Indian Home Minister to facilitate immediate and unconditional release of Kashmiri journalists Fahad Shah, Sajad Gul and Indian scribe Siddique Kappan who have been arrested on various charges. Raising the issue in Lok
Male: The opposition alliance Progressive Congress Coalition has held another rally as a part of the “India Out” campaign. Today’s rally was held in R.Meedhoo. The rally was joined by the opposition leader and Presidential candidate former President Abdulla Yameen. He was welcomed to the island
Qaisar Mansoor Politicisation of the Indian Army is no more a matter of dispute. The debate now is more on the desirability or otherwise of some amount of politicisation. The issue was triggered by the late chief of defence staff Bipin Rawat’s political activism. Commentators, including
Uttar Pradesh: The decomposed body of a Dalit woman was found in a vacant plot near a hermitage built by former Samajwadi Party minister Fateh Bahadur Singh in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district, PTI reported citing the police. The woman from Unnao district had gone missing
Karnataka: Ayesha Imthiaz, a devout Indian Muslim who considers wearing a hijab an expression of devotion to Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), says a move by her college to expel hijab-wearing girls is an insult that will force her to choose between religion and
New Delhi: Late CDS Bipin Rawat’s life was full of controversies and his death also put a lot of questions which are yet to be answered. In 2015, when he was in charge of the 3 Corps, Gen Rawat initiated India's first officially declared surgical