The world is seeing a clearer picture of exactly how seriously Covid-19 is ravaging India. With reports and gutting images emerging from New Delhi’s overrun hospitals and cremation sites, experts say that the death toll is much greater than...
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12th May 2021 | Updated at 12:48pm 12th May 2021
Lancet sees flaws in govt response to Covid crisis
- 12 May 2021
India needs to overcome its shortcomings in combating Covid quickly by adopting a two-pronged strategy to control the outbreak that include setting right the vaccination campaign and measures to ensure poorer and rural citizens are not left...
Kamala pledges more aid to India
- 12 May 2021
Asserting that the “welfare of India is critically important to the US,” Vice-President Kamala Harris, whose mother hailed from India and whose aunt is a physician in Chennai, pledged that the Biden administration will do even more for India...
London law graduate strangled and shot on visit to Pakistan
- 12 May 2021
Lahore: A British law graduate was strangled and shot to dead on a visit to Pakistan, local reports claim. Mayra Zulfiqar, 26, is said to have been shot by suspects who broke into her apartment in Lahore. She moved to Pakistan two months ago...
Pak army ‘biggest land grabber’: Lahore HC
- 05 May 2021
Lahore: In a rare rebuke of Pakistan’s army, the Lahore high court has called it the country’s “biggest land grabber” and said its uniform is for the service to the nation and “not to rule as a king”.
Bangladesh imposes 7 day nationwide lockdown amid coronavirus surge
- 05 May 2021
Dhaka: Amid surging coronavirus cases, Bangladesh has decided to impose a seven-day nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the deadly virus. The announcement was made by the Road Transport Minister Obaidul Quader during a media briefing....
Hefazat leaders want to turn Bangladesh into Taliban state
- 28 Apr 2021
Dhaka: Mamunul Haque, an influential leader of hardcore Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam in Bangladesh, along with other leaders, has confessed to wanting to turn Bangladesh into a Taliban state like Afghanistan if they came to power.Haque was...
“NO BETTER ALLY THAN THE UK”
- 25 Nov 2020
Recently appointed Indian-American Chief of Staff to Acting Defence Secretary speaks about 9/11, Kashmir, safeguarding regional security in the Indian Ocean through the Quad and the UK-USA special relationship.
Harvey Weinstein rape trial begins in New York
- 08 Jan 2020
Dressed in a black suit, former film producer Harvey Weinstein arrived at a Manhattan court on Monday for the start of his landmark rape trial, met by celebrity accusers including Rosanna Arquette who helped fuel the #MeToo movement in the wake...
Gotabaya Rajapaksa calls for constitutional changes to curb minority parties
- 08 Jan 2020
Sri Lanka’s new president endorsed amending the constitution to reduce the power of minority political parties, saying the country wasn’t suited to a system that creates unstable governments “constantly under the influence of extremism”.
Trouble brewing in post-election Sri Lanka
- 11 Dec 2019
Weeks after the election of hardliner Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the president of Sri Lanka, the prospects for justice and reconciliation between the different communities on the island lie in tatters.
Nepal runs out of hospital beds as India’s outbreak spills across the border
- 05 May 2021
Kathmandu: The coronavirus outbreak in India has spilled across the border into Nepal, where health officials have warned that hospital beds are unavailable, vaccines are running short and the number of new infections is rising faster than what...
Nepal’s reinstated parliament begins session, Prachanda faction walks out
- 10 Mar 2021
Kathmandu: Nepal’s reinstated lower house of parliament held its first meeting on Sunday during which the lawmakers belonging to the ruling Nepal Communist Party's (NCP) splinter faction led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ boycotted the session....
China seizes 150 hectares of Nepal
- 09 Nov 2020
UK diaspora and students protest against anti-Muslim violence in Delhi
Braving snow and rain, more than 200 members of the Indian diaspora and student communities in London gathered outside the Indian High Commission on Saturday 29 January afternoon, to protest the targeted anti-Muslim pogrom in Delhi which has...
Kerala Chief Minister opens trading floor at the London Stock Exchange
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan rang the bell at the London Stock Exchange, opening the Market on Friday 17 May, marking the listing of Masala Bonds sold by Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB). It is a government owned...
The United States on Sunday said it is rushing therapeutics, rapid diagnostic test kits, ventilators and personal protective equipment (PPE) to help treat...
Washington: The Asian Americans recorded the fastest population growth rate among all racial and ethnic groups in the United States between 2000 and 2019. The Asian population in the US grew 81 per cent during that span, from roughly 10.5 million...
Baghdad: The death toll from a massive fire in a Baghdad hospital for coronavirus patients rose to 82 on Sunday, as anxious relatives searched for those missing and the government suspended key health officials for alleged negligence. The blaze,...
WASHINGTON: The US Senate voted overwhelmingly to pass a bill combating surging hate crimes against Asian Americans during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Senate...
Washington: Indian American activist Vanita Gupta, who headed up the civil rights division of the Justice Department in the Obama administration, was narrowly...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka is keen on strengthening regional ties and the need to accelerate South-South cooperation, said Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on...
Pretoria: In another blow to former South African President Jacob Zuma, lawyers representing him in the corruption case have filed a notice seeking to...
Kinshasa: The Democratic Repblic of Congo is making a claim for billions as it accuses Uganda of ''barbarity'' over a brutal war 20 years ago. The accusation...
Kampala: Former Senior Presidential Press Secretary Joseph Tamale Mirundi has said President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s family is Uganda’s biggest problem....
