By Rohini Chatterji While BJP workers were seen trying to break police barricades in West Bengal’s Howrah, the police stopped the march with water canons and tear gas. The West Bengal police on Thursday used water canons, tear gas and lathicharged BJP workers Howrah’s Santragachi during the ‘Nabanno Chalo’ march to the state secretariat. Police sources told PTI that […]
By Lee Moran People pointed out the grand irony of the president’s criticism of the Democratic vice-presidential candidate. US President Donald Trump was raked over the coals on Twitter for his praise of Vice President Mike Pence ― and criticism of Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris ― during Wednesday’s vice presidential debate. Trump tweeted almost an hour into the […]
By Meryl Sebastian NBSA said Aaj Tak, Zee News and News 24 had violated guidelines on reportage and directed the channels to air an apology. National Broadcasting Standard Authority on Wednesday imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on the television channel Aaj Tak for telecasting fake tweets related to late actor Sushant Singh Rajput. NBSA […]
EU Parliament’s Rights Body Chair expressed concerns over deteriorating rule of law in India. By Akshita Jain The Chair of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights, Maria Arena has expressed concern over the deteriorating rule of law in India and the closure of Amnesty International India’s operations. In a statement on Monday, Arena said […]
The prime minister of Kyrgyzstan has quit after post-election protests plunged the ex-Soviet republic into political chaos. Protesters replaced Kubatbek Boronov with another politician they had freed from prison, Sadyr Japarov, and the election results were annulled. Opposition groups had earlier seized control of parliament, saying the ballot had been rigged. Russia and China have […]
By Reuters Staff KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwait’s new ruler on Wednesday named veteran security chief Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad as crown prince, retaining power firmly within the ruling family’s oldest ranks and signalling the OPEC member state is unlikely to pursue disruptive change. The selection of the octogenarian Sheikh Meshal, deputy head of the country’s National […]
By Reuters Staff (Reuters) – China said on Wednesday that the United States should stop its unprovoked attacks and accusations against China, accusing U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of maliciously creating political confrontation and smearing Beijing. Pompeo on Tuesday visited Japan and called for deeper cooperation with Australia, India and Japan to counter China’s […]
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing, the award-giving body said on Wednesday. “Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna have discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences […]
By Rupam Jain (Reuters) – Taliban and Afghan peace negotiators have agreed on a code of conduct to safeguard against the risk of any breakdown in talks that began last month in Qatar to bring an end to decades of war, three official sources told Reuters on Tuesday. The breakthrough was achieved with the help […]
By Danish Siddiqui NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Workers were clearing undergrowth from wasteland on Tuesday to add 400 graves to the Indian capital’s oldest functioning cemetery beside the ruins of historic city walls, as the death toll from the coronavirus grows. With more than 100,000 deaths nationwide, India’s tally of infections has crossed 6.6 million, […]
