NEW YORK: In a possible hate crime, unidentified persons have destroyed a handcrafted statue of Mahatma Gandhi with a sledgehammer at a Hindu temple here after vandalising it earlier this month, media reports said on Friday. Surveillance video shows a person thrashing a statue of Gandhi with a sledgehammer on Tuesday, before smashing the head […]
UNITED NATION: Child labour, caste-based discrimination and poverty are closely inter-linked in India, according to a UN report which highlighted contemporary forms of slavery, including severe discrimination against Dalit women in South Asia due to which they are systematically denied choices and freedoms in all spheres of life. Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Tomoya Obokata […]
NEW DELHI: US Senator Jon Ossoff will lead a delegation to India on an eight-day visit beginning August 30 to explore ways to strengthen bilateral economic, scientific and security ties. “I am leading this US delegation to strengthen the friendship between our nations and to meet the next generation of Indian leaders,” said Senator Ossoff. […]
KABUL: A bombing at a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul during evening prayers killed at least 21 people, including a prominent cleric, and wounded at least 33 others, eyewitnesses and police said Thursday. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack Wednesday night, the latest to strike the country in the […]
KYIV, UKRAINE: Russian strikes battered the northeast Ukraine region of Kharkiv Thursday, killing at least five people, hours ahead of the first face-to-face meeting since the start of the war between the Turkish and Ukrainian leaders. Moscow meanwhile denied it had deployed any heavy weapons at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine […]
Increased risk of neurological and psychiatric conditions such as dementia and seizures is still higher two years after COVID-19 compared to other respiratory infections, suggests an observational study of over 1.25 million patient health records published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal. The increased risk of depression and anxiety in adults lasts less than two months […]
Bangkok: India monitors any development in its neighbourhood which has a bearing on its security, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday, as a high-tech Chinese research vessel docked at a strategic port in Sri Lanka. Jaishankar, who arrived here on Tuesday to attend the 9th India-Thailand Joint Commission Meeting, made the remarks when […]
Colombo: China’s high-tech research vessel ‘Yuan Wang 5’ is on a “mission of peace and friendship” and its docking at a Sri Lankan port will deepen bilateral relations in the field of space, science and technology, according to the controversial ship’s captain. Chinese ballistic missile and satellite tracking ship ‘Yuan Wang 5’ is berthed at […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is likely to have a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping next month on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Uzbekistan, according to a media report on Wednesday. President Xi is expected to attend the SCO summit scheduled for September 15 and September 16 […]
TAIWAN: Taiwan is staging military exercises to show its ability to resist Chinese pressure to accept Beijing’s political control over the self-governing island, following new rounds of threatening drills from China. The exercises Wednesday off the southeastern county of Hualien follow days of Chinese missile firings and incursions into Taiwan’s sea and airspace by ships […]