Farmers To Call In Reinforcements During Harvest Season
Indian farmers have drawn up plans to continue their protests during the harvest season from March by bringing reinforcements from...
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What Caused The Deadly Avalanche In Uttarakhand?
An estimated 200 people are missing and 18 are confirmed killed after an avalanche in India’s Himalayan region broke dams,...
Breaking From Tradition, Pope Elects First Woman To Senior Post
Pope Francis has broken with Catholic tradition to appoint a woman as an undersecretary of the synod of bishops, the...
Monks Join Street Protests Against Myanmar Coup
Thousands of anti-coup protesters marched in towns and cities across Myanmar on Monday, witnesses said, demonstrating for a third straight...
Rescuers Search For 125 Missing After Uttarakhand Glacier Burst
Hundreds of military personnel were deployed in the Himalayas on Monday to help find at least 125 people unaccounted for...
‘Chakka Jam’ Held Across India As Farm Protests Widen
Thousands of farmers across India blocked roads on Saturday with makeshift tents, tractors, trucks and boulders to pressure the government...
4G Mobile Internet To Be Restored In Kashmir After 18 Months
India said on Friday it was restoring high-speed mobile internet in the federal territory of Jammu and Kashmir for the...
Here’s Why India’s Coronavirus Cases Have Fallen Sharply
With its 1.3 billion population, India has the world's second-highest number of coronavirus infections -- more than 10.8 million --...
U.N. Seeks ‘Maximum Restraint’ As Farm Protesters Widen Blockade
The United Nations human rights office called on Indian authorities and protesting farmers to exercise “maximum restraint” hours before the...
SC Grants Bail To Comedian Munawar Faruqui
India’s top court on Friday granted interim bail to a stand-up comedian who was jailed for more than a month...
Russia To Try Navalny For Slander Amid EU Talks
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is due back in court today for a slander trial despite Western calls for his...
“Won’t Be Silenced”: Meena Harris On Protest Over Her Tweets
American lawyer Meena Harris, the niece of U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris, has shared a photo of a protest against her...
Protests Against Agriculture Reforms Attract New Supporters
Thousands of farmers in a politically important Indian state on Friday rallied in opposition to new agricultural laws, signalling growing...
Ropeways’ Green Image Masks Potential Damage In Himalayas
“We are not against the ropeway or development. We are only concerned about the environment and local livelihoods,” said Sundar...
Vaccine Passports: A Path Back To Normality?
Governments and developers around the world are exploring the potential use of “vaccine passports” as a way of reopening the...
Over 300 Million Indians May Have Covid-19
About one in four of India’s 1.35 billion people may have been infected with the coronavirus, said a source with...
Farmers To Scale Up Protests As Supporters Weigh In
Farmers’ leaders on Wednesday outlined plans to scale up months of protests against agricultural reforms, as their cause gained high-profile...
Climate Crisis Is Foundation Of Farmers’ Protests
The protests by Indian farmers against three laws initially passed as ordinances have gone from sporadic in August 2020 to...
With Social Media Solidarity, Farmers Win Global Attention
Protesting Indian farmers won global attention on Wednesday with prominent Western activists joining pop superstar Rihanna in support of their...
Alexei Navalny Jailed, Declares Putin ‘The Underwear Poisoner’
A Russian court jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Tuesday, ignoring the West in a ruling the opposition politician blamed...
“In Solidarity”: Greta Thunberg Extends Support To Farmers
Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has extended her support to the farmers' protest at Delhi borders against the controversial agricultural...
Over Half In New Delhi May Have Had Covid: Govt Survey
More than half of New Delhi’s 20 million inhabitants may have been infected with the coronavirus, according to a government...
“Build Bridges, Not Walls”: Rahul Gandhi’s Swipe At Centre
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday attacked the government over barricades and road blocks set up at farmer agitation sites...
Twitter Blocks Dozens Of Accounts On Govt Demand
Twitter blocked dozens of accounts in India on Monday, including that of a leading newsmagazine, on the demand of the...
12 Children Given Sanitiser Instead Of Polio Drops In Maharashtra
Twelve children under five years of age were admitted to a hospital after they were administered sanitiser drops instead of...
