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...
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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...
Space For Democratic Dissent Shrinking In India: Academics
About 2,000 academics from top institutions in India and abroad have signed petitions demanding federal authorities stop targeting people critical...
India, Japan Seal Military Logistics Co-operation Pact
India and Japan have signed an agreement that will provide their militaries access to each other’s bases for supplies and...
India Reports Record Daily Jump Of 95,735 Covid-19 Cases
India reported record jumps in new coronavirus infections and deaths on Thursday, taking its tally of cases past 4.4 million,...
Despite Lockdowns, Greenhouse Gases Hit New Record: U.N.
Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere hit a record high this year, a United Nations report showed, as...
Global Covid-19 Deaths Hit 900,000 As Cases Surge In India
The global death toll from the coronavirus passed 900,000 on Wednesday, as worldwide cases topped 27.7 million, according to a...
Donald Trump Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize
A Norwegian lawmaker has nominated US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 for helping broker a...
Actor’s Death Grips India With Frenzied TV Coverage
The demise of a young movie star has transfixed India like no other news in a year of bad headlines....
India’s Coronavirus Infections Surge To 4.3 Million
India reported 89,706 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday, taking its total caseload to 4.3 million, data from the Health Ministry...
More Than 1 Bn People Face Displacement By 2050
Rapid population growth, lack of access to food and water and increased exposure to natural disasters mean more than 1...
State-Run Banks To Step Up Loans To Street Vendors
Banks in Madhya Pradesh are scrambling to boost lending to street vendors in a bid to bolster numbers ahead of...
Rhea Chakraborty Held By Narcotics Control Bureau
Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau, India’s federal narcotics agency, on Tuesday, a spokesperson for...
India Records Highest Covid-19 Deaths In More Than A Month
India recorded its highest daily deaths from the coronavirus in more than a month on Tuesday, even as new infections...
India, China Accuse Each Other Of Aerial Firing On Border
India and China have accused each other of firing in the air during a new confrontation on their border in...
