UN Food Chief Urges Billionaires To Help World’s Starving
United Nations food chief David Beasley has called on the world’s billionaires to step up to help save some 30...
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COVID-19 Driving Discrimination In Asia: Red Cross
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned on Thursday that the novel coronavirus is driving...
Delhi Police File Rioting Charges Against Govt Critics
Delhi Police have filed charges against 15 people over Hindu-Muslim riots in the capital, a spokesman said on Thursday, prompting...
Egypt Cuts Highways Across Pyramids Plateau, Alarming Conservationists
Egypt is building two highways across the pyramids plateau outside Cairo, reviving and expanding a project that was suspended in...
Global Coronavirus Cases To Soon Cross 30 Million
Global coronavirus cases are expected to pass 30 million on Thursday, according to a Reuters tally, with the pandemic showing...
World’s Longest Highway Tunnel Above 10,000 Ft Ready
The construction of the Atal Tunnel connecting Manali with Leh, which is the world's longest highway tunnel above 10,000 feet,...
29 German Cops Suspended For Sharing Pictures Of Hitler
Twenty-nine police officers have been suspended in Germany for sharing pictures of Adolf Hitler and doctored depictions of refugees in...
India’s Coronavirus Cases Surpass 5 Million Mark
India’s coronavirus cases surged past 5 million on Wednesday with a single-day jump of 90,123 infections in the last 24...
Government To Infuse $2.72 Bn In State-Run Banks
The government has sought Parliamentary approval to inject Rs 200 billion rupees ($2.72 billion) in state-run banks in the current...
Atleast 17 MPs Infected With Coronavirus
At least 17 members of Parliament have tested positive for the coronavirus, government officials said on Tuesday, underlining the widening...
India’s Tally Of COVID-19 Infections Nears 5 Million
India reported 83,809 new coronavirus infections for its lowest daily jump in a week, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday....
India Says China Laying Cables At Border Flashpoint
Two Indian officials said Chinese troops were laying a network of optical fibre cables at a western Himalayan flashpoint with...
‘COVID-19 Has Set Global Health Progress Back Decades’
The knock-on effects of the coronavirus pandemic have halted and reversed global health progress, setting it back 25 years and...
Myanmar Casualties May Represent War Crimes: Bachelet
The U.N. Human Rights Chief said on Monday that three years after a Rohingya exodus “no concrete measures” on accountability...
Umar Khalid Arrested Over Delhi Riots, To Activists’ Fury
Delhi Police arrested a former student leader on Monday for his alleged role in deadly riots in the capital New...
Pandemic Panel Slams Collective Failure To Heed Warnings
A collective failure by political leaders to heed warnings and prepare for an infectious disease pandemic has transformed “a world...
India Considers Emergency Authorisation Of Vaccine
India said on Sunday it was considering granting an emergency authorisation for a COVID-19 vaccine, particularly for the elderly and...
Record Daily Jump In Covid Cases For 2nd Straight Day
India reported a record daily jump in coronavirus cases for a second consecutive day, logging 97,570 new infections on Saturday,...
Afghan Peace Talks Open In Doha, 19 Yrs After 9/11
Talks between the Afghan government and Taliban insurgents start in Qatar’s capital Doha today, with the goal of bringing an...
Hundreds Of Homes Torched In Massive US Wildfires
Around half a million people in the state of Oregon, US, were under evacuation alerts on Friday, with residents of...
Maharashtra Exceeds 1 Mn Covid-19 Cases, Rivalling Russia
India’s biggest and richest state, Maharashtra, recorded its millionth coronavirus infection on Friday, putting it on par with Russia in...
‘Millions Of Covid-19 Cases Went Undetected In India’
Millions of coronavirus cases may have gone undetected in India earlier this year, a research paper estimates, saying that for...
UP Uses Draconian Law To Detain Those Accused Of Killing Cows
More than half the arrests this year under a tough national security law in India’s most populous state of Uttar...
India, China Agree To Disengage Troops On Border
China and India said they had agreed to de-escalate renewed tensions on their contested Himalayan border and take steps to...
India Reports Record Daily Jump Of 96,551 Covid-19 Cases
India reported another record daily jump of 96,551 coronavirus cases on Friday, taking its case load to 4.5 million, data...
