New Delhi: In a distressing interview to The Wire, the chairman and managing director of Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices (HMD), India’s largest maker of medical syringes, said the country faces a shortage of auto-disable syringes – to be used and thrown away – for

Arunachal Pradesh: Indian and Chinese troops were engaged in a face-off near the Line of Actual Control in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang district last week, News18 reported on Friday, citing unidentified officials. The incident happened between the border pass of Yangtse and Bum La. An official told

Islamabad: India is a fit case to be blacklisted by Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for its money laundering and terrorism sponsoring. According to a research report 44 Indian banks had been flagged for carrying out suspicious transactions worth more than $1 billion but FATF is

Jeddah: Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), an organization of Islamic countries, has criticized the Indian government over eviction of hundreds of Muslim families from government land in Assam. The OIC, on its official Twitter handle, called the police action in Darrang district in India’s northeastern state

Srinagar: Chairman of All Parties Sikh Coordination Committee (APSCC), Jagmohan Singh Raina, has said that BJP and RSS are trying to communalize the situation in the territory after the killing of two civilians from minority communities. He expressed these views while commenting on the killing of

Srinagar: While deeming India as a ‘Dangerous Place for Minorities’, the South Asia State of Minorities report has noted that Muslim-majority Kashmir—where regressive constitutional changes in August 2019 were accompanied by a communication blackout, mass detentions, and a movement lockdown—demonstrates “how civic space can be

Srinagar: Hurriyat leaders and organizations have strongly condemned the killing of two teachers, Satinder Kour and Deepak Chand, chemist Makhan Lal Bindroo and other Kashmiris by unknown men backed by Indian forces and their secret agencies in Indian Illegally Occupied Kashmir (IIOJK). In a statement, they

New York: The United Nations Human Rights Council should renew the mandate of the Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen and support the group’s work investigating human rights abuses in the country, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. “The U.N.’s Group of Eminent Experts on

United Nations: Afghanistan s humanitarian crisis is growing alarmingly worse, a top UN official warned Wednesday, calling on the international community to do more to help the war-torn nation. "It is the first time I ve seen a crisis like this escalate and accelerate at the

London: The UK is eager to show off its environmental credentials an important UN summit in the coming days but for the moment, is having trouble dealing with mounting protests at home from climate activists.Direct action group Extinction Rebellion has brought cities to a standstill

Alaska: The United States and China have agreed in principle for their presidents to hold a virtual meeting before the end of the year, a senior US administration official said on Wednesday, after high-level talks aimed at improving communication between the two countries. The closed-door meeting

Stockholm: Germany’s Benja­min List and US-based David MacMillan won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for developing a tool to build molecules which has helped make chemistry more environmentally friendly. Their tool, which they developed independently of each other in 2000, can be used to control and accelerate