Tehran: Iran celebrated the 45th anniversary of the establishment of the Islamic Republic on Sunday, with different governmental bodies renewing their pledge to protect the country’s national interests and strive to achieve the Islamic Revolution of 1979’s ideals. The Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Sunday on the occasion of the Islamic Republic Day, which […]
New York: Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), has urged Israel to allow the organisation’s food and nutrition convoys reach northern Gaza and to open additional land crossings to facilitate the delivery of aid amid international warnings of famine in the coastal enclave. Lazzarini made the […]
United Nations: Russia exercised its veto power at the United Nations, blocking a resolution aimed at renewing an independent panel of experts tasked with investigating North Korea’s violations of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) sanctions, CNN reported. This move comes amidst heightened tensions between Moscow and the West over the conflict in Ukraine, with North […]
New Delhi: Tata Consultancy Services found themselves at the centre of a row in the US with American workers alleging that the company “illegally discriminated against them based on their race and age, firing them and shifting some of their work to lower-paid Indian immigrants on temporary work visas.” In a report by The Wall […]
Doha: Countries have called for Israel to obey an International Court of Justice order to allow the unimpeded delivery of aid into Gaza, where famine has set in, as it continues to flout a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in the enclave. Judges at the UN’s top court, which is examining […]
Jerusalem: As Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Easter, Palestinians in the land that birthed the religion are facing severe restrictions on entering Jerusalem’s Old City to mark the occasion. While at least 200 leaders from the occupied West Bank have been given permits to enter the area, their congregations are not being allowed […]
New Delhi: Artifact, an AI-powered news aggregation app is here to stay, at least for a while. Developed by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the creators had announced earlier this year that they were closing shop because “the market opportunity isn’t big enough to warrant continued investment in this way.” In a blog […]
New Delhi: A recent study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has caught the eyes of many in the medical fraternity due to the alarming results described in it, and is being widely discussed by many on social media. According to it, “The exposure to the micro-nano plastics from regular bottled […]
Gaza: A United Nations expert who published a report saying there were reasonable grounds to believe Israel has committed genocide in its war on Gaza says she has received threats throughout her mandate. Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, presented a report entitled “Anatomy of a […]
Kuala Lumpur: At a time when India has reiterated its two-state solution for the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that although the October 7 attack was definitely an act of terrorism, there remains the “underlying issue of the rights of the Palestinians and the fact that they have been denied their […]