Vatican City: Pope Francis expressed his concern over rising tensions in Ukraine that threaten peace, and called for political talks that put at the centre human brotherhood instead of partisan interests.” I am following with concern the rising tensions that threaten to inflict a new blow
London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered an inquiry into claims by a lawmaker who said she was fired from a ministerial job in the government partly because her Muslim faith was making colleagues uncomfortable. Nusrat Ghani, 49, who lost her job as a junior
Geneva: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which is best known for helping war victims, says hackers broke into servers hosting its data and gained access to personal, confidential information on more than a half-million vulnerable people. The Geneva-based agency said on Wednesday that
Kabul: A couple of days after US special representative for Afghanistan Thomas West's remarks on girls' education in Afghanistan, officials of the Afghan ministry of education promised to reopen schools for all age groups, both girls and boys, at the start of the new academic
Copenhagen: The Omicron variant has moved the Covid-19 pandemic into a new phase and could bring it to an end in Europe, the WHO Europe director said. "It s plausible that the region is moving towards a kind of pandemic endgame," Hans Kluge told AFP in
Qaisar Mansoor In today’s India, minorities are facing the worst kind of persecution as intolerance has become a basic hallmark of Modi’s regime. Muslims are beaten up in day’s light, Sikhs are protesting on the roads while Christians are also facing severe persecution. In the Hindutva
Damascus: Three Syrian children have died, with hundreds of thousands of people "at great risk" following heavy winter storms in Syria and neighboring countries, according to humanitarian organization CARE. CARE warne that the onslaught of heavy winter storms is exacerbating the living situation of internally displaced
P. Raman 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
New Delhi: India on Monday registered 3,06,064 new Covid-19 cases, taking the overall count in the country to 3,95,43,328. The new cases on Monday were 8.23% lower than Sunday’s figure of 3,33,533 cases. The positivity rate, however, increased to 20.75% from 17.78% on Sunday. The country’s active
New Delhi: A US government organisation that monitors international religious freedom has recommended that India be designated as a “country of particular concern” for the second consecutive year. The chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), Gayle Manchin, said that the past