The George Floyds of India
by D Samarender Reddy | courtesy: Telangana Today Mobs roaming the streets and creating mayhem. Widespread rioting. Police cars and...
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Delhi Reserves Hospital Beds For Residents As Virus Cases Surge
The city of New Delhi on Sunday ordered many of its hospital beds to be reserved solely for residents of...
Floyd Killing: Protesters March Again, Demand Police Reforms
A mounting wave of protests demanding police reform after the killing of a black man in Minneapolis swept across the...
Global Coronavirus Deaths Top 400,000
Global deaths from the novel coronavirus topped 400,000 on Sunday, as case numbers surge in Brazil and India, according to...
India Overtakes Italy’s Covid-19 Tally As Lockdown Easing Looms
India reported a record 9,887 new coronavirus cases in one day on Saturday and overtook Italy to become the country...
George Floyd’s Death Sparks New Generation Of Activists In US
Kristina Knox, a 25-year-old child development teacher from Maryland, cried for days after watching video footage of George Floyd, a...
Thousands In Australia Defy Bans At ‘Black Lives Matter’ Protests
Thousands of Australians gathered in protests on Saturday embracing the cause of U.S. protesters angered by the death of a...
India Set To Reopen Temples, Malls From Monday
India will throw open shopping malls, restaurants and places of worship that typically attract large crowds next week, officials said,...
Yamuna Regains Sparkle As Lockdown Banishes Waste
The sparkle has returned to the Yamuna river flowing through New Delhi, India’s capital, residents say, after decades of filthy...
Family Of Black Man Shot By Colorado Police Files Lawsuit
The family of a 19-year-old African-American man who was fatally shot in the back by Colorado Springs police last year...
Children Speak Up At Memorial For George Floyd
At a New York City memorial for George Floyd on Thursday, Corte Ellis held a sign he had made using...
Hong Kong’s Free Media Fears Being Silenced By China
When a team of producers at Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) heard on May 19 that the publicly funded broadcaster...
Centre Spells Out Rules For Re-opening Offices
Any employee residing in a COVID-19 containment zone should be allowed to work from home and not attend office till...
Urban COVID-19 Outbreak Is Morphing Into A Rural Health Crisis
Rural parts of India have begun to see a surge in novel coronavirus infections, as millions of migrant workers returning...
Covid-19 Sours Saudi Women’s Bid For Financial Independence
Abeer al-Howayan despaired of ever working after spending eight years trying to find a job that would put her chemistry...
“Address ‘Appalling Impact’ Of COVID-19 On Minorities”
The coronavirus disease is exposing alarming inequalities in some countries: disparities similar to those fuelling current protests for greater racial...
New Charges Against Minneapolis Policemen As Protests Go On
Prosecutors on Wednesday leveled new criminal charges against four Minneapolis policemen implicated in the death of a black man pinned...
‘I Want Justice’: Mother Of Floyd’s Daughter
The grieving mother of George Floyd’s daughter on Tuesday demanded justice for him, saying he was a good father who...
George Floyd Death: Protests Expose Raw Race Relations Worldwide
Images of a white police officer kneeling on the neck of African-American George Floyd, who then died, have sparked protests...
Punjab’s Dalit Women Break Shackles, Seek Share In Reserved Land
Having stayed behind the veil for many years, Dalit women in Punjab's Sangrur have finally begun to stand up for...
Mumbai Streets Deserted As It Braces For Cyclone Nisarga
The streets of Mumbai emptied on Wednesday as a rare cyclone headed for India’s most populous metropolis and thousands of...
Covid-19: Cases Cross 200,000, Peak Still Weeks Away
India’s coronavirus infections crossed 200,000, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday, and a peak could still be weeks away in...
Cyclone Nisarga: Parts Of West Coast Evacuated
India began evacuating people from low-lying areas in and around Mumbai ahead of a cyclone that is expected to hit...
COVID-19: India Approves Emergency Use Of Remdesivir
The government said on Tuesday it has approved Gilead Sciences Inc’s antiviral drug remdesivir for emergency use in treating COVID-19...
Relatives Queue To Cremate Covid-19 Dead In Delhi
A queue of ambulances formed outside the main crematorium in India’s capital New Delhi on Monday, as the number of...
