PM Modi Warns Of Coronavirus ‘Negligence’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday warned citizens against flouting rules to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, as...
Month: June 2020
India Must Raise Tibet Issue With China, Says Exiled Leader
The political leader of Tibetans in exile on Monday urged India to take a more prominent role in resolving the...
China Passes Feared Hong Kong Security Law
China passed a sweeping national security law for Hong Kong on Tuesday, a historic move that critics and many Western...
India Bans 59 Mostly Chinese Apps Amid Border Crisis
India on Monday banned 59, mostly Chinese, mobile apps including Bytedance’s TikTok and Tencent’s WeChat in its strongest move yet...
Trump Retweets, Then Deletes, Video With Slogan ‘White Power’
U.S. President Donald Trump retweeted a video showing one of his supporters in Florida shouting “white power” at protesters of...
Floods In Assam Force A Million From Their Homes
Heavy flooding triggered by monsoon rains has forced more than a million people to flee their homes in the northeastern...
26/11: India Seeks Extradition Of Attack Mastermind
India is seeking the extradition of a top Pakistan militant suspected to have planned the 2008 Mumbai attacks after the...
Global Coronavirus Deaths Top Half A Million
The death toll from COVID-19 surpassed half a million people on Sunday, according to a Reuters tally, a grim milestone...
‘India’s George Floyds’: Father-Son Death Sparks Outrage
Outrage at the death of a father-son duo in the custody of Indian police earlier this week mounted on Saturday,...
CAA Protests: UN Experts Seek Release Of Activists
In a statement published on June 26, several experts from the United Nations have called upon India to immediately release...
Coronavirus Cases In India Cross 500,000
India reported over 17,000 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours, pushing the country’s total above 500,000, federal Health...
Coronavirus Impact Worsens Gender Gap In India
Women around the world have been hurt financially by the coronavirus outbreak, but the situation in India is more precarious...
A Draft Policy To Tackle Single Women’s Challenges
Single women are among the most vulnerable groups in India—though that term is taken to generally mean women who are...
Children, Minorities In Pak Vulnerable To Trafficking: US Report
Asserting that Pakistan did not demonstrate overall increasing efforts to eliminate human trafficking, the United States has downgraded Islamabad to...
‘China Amassed Troops In Violation Of Agreements’
China has deployed large numbers of troops and weapons along a disputed Himalayan border in violation of bilateral agreements, India’s...
Covid-19: Delhi Readies Vast Quarantine Centre As Cases Mount
Authorities in New Delhi worked to convert a spiritual centre into a huge quarantine facility on Thursday as novel coronavirus...
BLM Effect: Unilever To Drop ‘Fair & Lovely’ Product Name
Unilever will drop the word “fair” from its “Fair & Lovely” brand of skin lightening products which are popular in...
Manu Statue Removal: 600 Dalit Activists Seek Sonia’s Intervention
A letter by well-known Dalit rights leader Martin Macwan, signed by over 600 concerned citizens, including scholars, writers, teachers, activists...
Siberian Heat Wave A ‘Warning Cry’, Say Climate Scientists
Pine trees are bursting into flames. Boggy peatlands are tinderbox dry. And towns in northern Russia are sweltering under conditions...
U.S. Goods From China Held Up At Indian Ports
Apple, Cisco and Dell products are among the goods from U.S. companies being caught up in India’s border tensions with...
Huawei, Hikvision Backed By Chinese Military: Trump Admn
The Trump administration has determined that top Chinese firms, including telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies and video surveillance company Hikvision,...
Migrant Workers Need Support, Jobs At Home: ILO
The U.N. labour agency appealed to governments on Wednesday to support tens of millions of migrant workers forced to return...
Army Called In To Run Facilities In Delhi As Cases Surge
India reported 16,000 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, its highest daily increase since the outbreak began, and the government called...
Veganism: Ensuring Animal Justice And Human Emancipation
“It is not an act of Kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of Justice.” -- Tom Regan...
Coronavirus Cases In India Cross 4.56 Lakh
With a record 15,968 coronavirus cases reported in the past 24 hours, the total count in India has risen to...
