Sat 24 December 2022: The Indian Health Ministry has given a fresh six-point advisory to the states to face any Covid emergency amid rising cases in neighbouring China. India has reported a handful of the BF.7 strain that’s running amok in China. All travellers coming from China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand will […]
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Sat 24 December 2022: The COVID-19 virus may have infected about 37 million individuals in China on a single day this week, according to a report from the Bloomberg news agency, which was based on information from the minutes of a National Health Commission meeting that took place on Wednesday. Overall, according to the estimate, […]
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Fri 23 December 2022: French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, also known as the ‘Bikini Killer’, has been released from a Nepali jail on Friday (Dec 23). As per an AFP report, Sobhraj was being transferred to the immigration detention centre ahead of his deportation to France. Sobhraj’s lawyer, however, said his client wanted to get […]
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Fri 23 December 2022: The minister of higher education in Afghanistan’s Taliban government has defended his decision to ban women from universities – a decree that triggered a global backlash and protests inside the country. Afghanistan’s Taliban-run administration announced earlier this week it had closed universities to women partly due to female students not adhering to its interpretation of […]
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Fri 23 December 2022: Setting an example of dedication and devotion, Arbin Tahir, a high school student from Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora has written the Holy Quran consisting of 900 pages with her own hands in six months. According to a report, Arbin is a student of Giariyan Jamaat in 11th standard and has always […]
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Thu 22 December 2022: A Texas-based Hindu charity reportedly held a local fundraiser in Frisco, Texas last month, circulating a flyer that listed “the destruction of illegal Christian churches” as one of its goals. American Family News (AFN) reports a coalition of Texas Christian and interfaith leaders are now calling for congressional lawmakers to investigate the […]
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Thu 22 December 2022: India’s Union minister Anurag Thakur on Thursday said 104 YouTube channels, 45 videos, four Facebook accounts, three Instagram accounts, five Twitter handles and six websites have been blocked for spreading misinformation and threatening national security. Responding to questions in the Rajya Sabha, Mr Thakur said section 69A of the Information Technology […]
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Thu 22 December 2022: Turkey and Saudi Arabia have strongly condemned the Taliban’s nationwide ban on women attending private and public universities. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday that the ban was “neither Islamic nor humane”. Speaking at a joint news conference with his Yemeni counterpart, Cavusoglu urged the Taliban to reverse the decision. “What […]
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Thu 22 December 2022: With the surge in Covid cases in China and other countries, one of the most popular tourist attractions of the country Taj Mahal in Agra is put on alert, confirmed the District Health Information Officer in Agra. Domestic and foreign tourists come every day in large numbers to visit the Taj […]
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Thu 22 December 2022: The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that amid an ongoing resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic in China, hospitals across the country seem to be filling up. Addressing the media here on Wednesday, Michael Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, said: “In China, what’s been reported is relatively […]
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