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New Delhi: The national capital has been witnessing a steady rise in the number of Covid-19 cases over the last week. Delhi is nearing 1,000 Covid cases a day, and has so far recorded 238 Omicron cases, mostly from travellers coming from abroad. The positivity
Seville, Spain: Margot Wallström, former Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, introduced SIPRI’s Environment of Peace initiative during her keynote address to the ‘Workshop on Climate, Peace and Security: How to Operationalise Principles on Environmental Peacebuilding’, held in Seville, Spain. ‘The security trends and environmental trends we
New York: The United Nations warned that human rights violations will not go on with “impunity” in war-torn Yemen. We stress “that violations of international humanitarian and human rights law in Yemen cannot continue with impunity,” UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Hans Grundberg,
Moscow: Russia’s Supreme Court ordered the closure of Memorial, the country’s most prominent rights group that chronicled Stalin-era purges and symbolised post-Soviet democratisation, sparking an international outcry. The court ruling against Memorial International, the group’s central structure, caps a year that began with the jailing of
Vienna: European negotiators stressed that talks to save the landmark Iran nuclear deal are "urgent", the day after discussions between world powers resumed in Vienna. Negotiations to restore the 2015 agreement began earlier this year but stopped in June as Iran elected a new ultraconservative government.
New York: Apple said on Wednesday it has put the Indian plant of its main supplier “on probation” after a mass food poisoning and protests over workers' living conditions. Some 250 women working at Foxconn's iPhone factory in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu were
London: Cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in India rose from 653 to 781 on Wednesday, data from the Union health ministry showed. Cases of the new strain were first reported in the country on December 2 and has now spread to 21
Madhya Pradesh: A Catholic Church priest and a pastor were among three people arrested by the Madhya Pradesh Police for allegedly luring tribals from a village in the state’s Jhabua district to convert to Christianity. A first information report was filed at Kalyanpura police station based
Sheikh Fakhar-e-Alam In pre-partition British India, Junagadh was a princely state. It was the leading state in the Western Kathiawar region of India, commanding great strategic importance as a maritime state. It was bound on three sides by territory that had acceded to the dominion of
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Wednesday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government was targeting Christians in India after the home ministry refused to renew the Missionaries of Charity’s permission to receive funds from abroad. “After Muslims, Christians are the new target of
Sheikh Fakhar-e-Alam During a period of absurd showdown and uncertainty in the subcontinent, Pakistan has made a significant stride towards harmony by opening the Kartarpur Corridor. Kartarpur Corridor was inaugurated by PM Imran Khan on 09 November 2019 which provides visa-free entry to Sikh pilgrims from
New Delhi: One of India’s highly regarded actors, Naseeruddin Shah, has warned of a civil war in India if the anti-Muslim campaign by the Hindu extremists continues. He said if attempts at Muslim genocide and ethnic cleansing did not stop immediately, India’s Muslims were going to