Sat 04 May 2019: Cyclone Fani weakened to a depression as it barrelled into Bangladesh on Saturday after leaving a trail of deadly destruction in India, although a major human disaster looked to have been averted. Press reports said 12 people had died in India and police in Bangladesh put the death toll there at the […]
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Sat 04 May 2019: At least 90 people, including 65 children, are believed to have been infected with the HIV virus in Pakistan by a doctor using a contaminated syringe, officials said Friday. “We have arrested a doctor after receiving complaints from the health authorities,” said Kamran Nawaz, the local police chief heading the case […]
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Fri 03 May 2019: Locations could include Middle East, Pakistan, and western Pacific to protect Belt and Road Initiative, report says The US Defense Department expects China to add military bases around the world to protect its investments in it ambitious One Belt One Road global infrastructure program, according to an official report released on Thursday. Beijing currently […]
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Fri 03 May 2019: Tropical Cyclone Fani made landfall on the coast of the Indian state of Odisha at around 8 a.m. local time (0330 UTC) on Friday, with forecasters predicting that the storm would cause widespread devastation. The storm is the fiercest in the region since a 1999 cyclone that killed some 10,000 people in Odisha. Winds brought by […]
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Fri 03 May 2019: NEW DELHI (Reuters) – PepsiCo Inc has agreed to withdraw lawsuits against Indian potato farmers it alleged infringed a patent by cultivating a variety grown exclusively for its Lay’s potato chips. The U.S. snack food and drinks maker, which in addition to filing the lawsuit against the four farmers in April […]
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Thu 02 May 2019: Both the United Nations and the International Criminal Court consider the way civilians said they were used by the Indian army to search houses in south Kashmir to be illegal under international law, experts said. However, the soldiers involved were unlikely to have committed crimes under Indian law, they said. Many […]
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Thu 3 May 2019: Is that Tyrion Lannister serving mutton and flatbread at a Kashmiri restaurant in Pakistan? No, it’s his doppelganger Rozi Khan, but one can see why people would get so confused by the uncanny resemblance. The two practically share the same face, and are also 135 cms tall. Until a few months […]
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Thu 3 May 2019: A southern Indian state is inspecting more than 7,000 garment factories and spinning mills after the national human rights watchdog raised concerns over “miserable” working conditions. India’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) ordered authorities in Tamil Nadu to act after a report by the Thomson Reuters Foundation about female garment workers […]
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Thu 02 May 2019: NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An Indian Hindu nationalist group allied with Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on Wednesday for a ban on veils after Sri Lanka prohibited the garments worn by some Muslim women following militant bomb attacks there. Sri Lanka imposed its ban on Monday to help security forces identify […]
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Thu 3 May 2019: Chinese authorities are using a mobile app designed for mass surveillance to profile, investigate and detain Muslims in Xinjiang by labelling “completely lawful” behaviour as suspicious, a Human Rights Watch report said Thursday. Beijing has come under international criticism over its policies in the northwest region of Xinjiang, where as many […]
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