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WASHINGTON: Air pollution is more dangerous to the health of the average person on planet Earth than smoking or alcohol, with the threat worsening in its global epicenter South Asia even as China fast improves, a study showed on Tuesday. Yet the level of funding set
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations is in the throes of what Secretary-General António Guterres calls an “unprecedented” six-month exit from Mali on orders of the West African nation’s military junta, which has brought in mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group to help fight an Islamic insurgency. The
LONDON: Thousands of passengers stranded as Britain's National Air Traffic Service (NATS) was hit by a technical problem for several hours on Monday, causing widespread disruption to flights in UK airspace that it said would continue for some time even though the issue was fixed. The
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NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court has asked the Narendra Modi-led government if there was a “timeframe” and a “roadmap of progression” to restore the special status of held Kashmir, Indian media outlets reported on Tuesday. The remarks were passed by a five-member bench headed by Chief
MADHYA PRADESH: In view of rising incidents of killings, torture and rape of Dalit people in India particularly in Madhya Pradesh, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party saying that the ruling party has made the country a “laboratory” for
NEW DELHI: A school in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, where a school teacher reportedly encouraged students to slap a Muslim student, has been ordered shut until an investigation against the school authorities is completed. The schoolteacher has been booked and an investigation into
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has lamented what he called a “reactionary” Catholic Church in the United States, where he said political ideology has replaced faith in some cases. In the 10 years since his election, Francis has been criticized by conservative sectors of the US Church
ISLAMABAD: The Indian High Commission in Islamabad is set to welcome Geetika Srivastava as its first-ever female chargé d’affaires. Another addition to the “Female Diplomatic Club,” Srivastava's appointment comes soon after Great Britain posted its first woman high commissioner to Pakistan. Srivastava is expected to take up
ROME: Italy was struggling on Monday to accommodate arrivals from North Africa and the Balkans as the country's Red Cross called for more international efforts against migration "chaos". On Lampedusa island, Italy's southernmost outpost, more than 4,200 people landed over the weekend, local police chief Emanuele
UNITED NATIONS: A new global environmental fund marks a major step towards securing the wellbeing of biodiversity in developing countries and will help to ensure sustainable utilization of their natural resources, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a Rome-based UN agency, has said. The Global Biodiversity
CHENNAI: The Hindutva Brahmin goons ruthlessly assaulted a 14-year-old Dalit student and his grandmother in Tamil Nadu state in India. The Brahmin upper caste Hindutva men beat up the Dalit boy when the Dalit boy entered into a verbal spat with an intermediate caste boy leading