United Nations: A staggering 78 million girls and boys around the world today “don’t go to school at all” because of conflict, climate disasters and displacement – while tens of millions more receive only sporadic teaching – UN Secretary-General António Guterres said. Lending his support to
Washington: President Joe Biden has said that he expects to speak with China's president, Xi Jinping, about what the United States says was a Chinese spy balloon that a US fighter jet shot down early this month after it transited the United States. "We are not
Mumbai: The Income Tax department’s surveys at the Mumbai and Delhi offices of British broadcaster BBC ended on Thursday night after nearly 60 hours. The BBC, in an update on Twitter, said it stands by its colleagues and journalists “who will continue to report without fear
Haryana: The charred bodies of two men were found in a car in Haryana’s Bhiwani district after they were allegedly abducted by cow vigilantes from Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district, PTI reported. The development came a day after the families of two Muslim men from Bharatpur – Nasir
New Delhi: Speakers at two events held at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar openly called for the slaughter of Muslims and Christians. The first programme, the ‘Sanatan Dharma Sansad’, was organized in support of Dhirendra Shastri, a religious leader of Bageshwar Dham. In Delhi Janter Manter area, a
New Delhi: The India’s dreaded National Investigation Agency (NIA) launched raids and searches in Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka, today, in connection with two cases of blasts in Coimbatore and Mangaluru. The dreaded NIA along with Indian police personnel raided and searched at
New Delhi: The Congress demanded a probe into the possible use of an Israeli firm’s services to interfere in Indian elections and spread disinformation. A recent report by a collaboration of international publications aided by Paris-based Forbidden Stories, published in The Guardian, said that elections
New Delhi: India has failed to acknowledge and act on its international legal obligations to protect them and has instead created societal as well as legal barriers for arrival and acceptance of Rohingya refugees. In 2015, the BJP led government altered the Passport Act, 1967 and
Geneva: An inflatable rubber boat carrying migrants wrecked off the coast of Libya and 73 people were missing and presumed dead, the U.N. migration agency said. It was the latest tragedy involving migrants seeking better lives in Europe. The U.N. International Organization for Migration said in
United Nations: Marking one year since Russia invaded Ukraine, the UN General Assembly will vote next week on a draft resolution stressing "the need to reach, as soon as possible, a comprehensive, just and lasting peace" in line with the founding United Nations Charter. It again