Dhaka: The UN’s decision to slash food aid to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh would have catastrophic consequences, experts warned, as the World Food Program plans to reduce rations from next month. Bangladesh hosts more than 1.2 million Rohingya Muslims, most of whom escaped deadly violence and
Warsaw: Months after Russian forces occupied southern Ukraine’s Kherson province last year, they started paying visits to the home of a Ukrainian woman and her Russian husband. They smashed their refrigerator and demanded possession of their car. One day, they seized the wife and her teenage
New Delhi: India’s Finance Ministry accused the BBC of tax evasion, saying that it had not fully declared its income and profits from its operations in the country. Indian tax authorities ended three days of searches of the British broadcaster’s New Delhi and Mumbai offices on
New Delhi: Amid layoffs and a severe cost-cutting, Twitter has closed offices in Delhi and Mumbai and asked staff to work from home, according to sources. The micro-blogging platform’s Bangalore office, which largely has engineering staff, remains operational, the sources said. The Delhi and Mumbai offices
New Delhi: Billionaire George Soros has kicked up a storm in India by predicting that the Adani crisis "will significantly weaken" Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "stranglehold" on government. His remarks have led to furious pushback from both the ruling and opposition camps, with Modi's Bharatiya Janata
New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India has said that it will take a decision on the early listing of petitions challenging the Narendra Modi-led Indian government’s decision to abrogate Article 370, which granted special status to Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). A bench
New Delhi: India is a Hindu rashtra – a Hindu nation – because all citizens of the country are Hindus, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath claimed. Adityanath made the controversial statement in an interview with news channel ABP News. He also shared a clip of the
New Delhi: The Union health ministry has made a change in its organ donation policy to remove a clause that barred people aged above 65 years from receiving organs from dead bodies for transplants. An individual of any age is now eligible for organ transplants. The relevant
Haryana: Indian police said on Saturday they had arrested one man over the murder of two Muslim men whose charred bodies were found in a car after they were abducted for alleged cow smuggling. Cows are considered sacred by Hindus and their slaughter is illegal in
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