Media watchdog warns India over spike in journos’ killings in first Incident Report
Agencies India may slip further from its current 138th place in the World Press Freedom Index as four journalists were murdered in less than six months amidst a sharp rise in hate speech, a global media watchdog warned today in its first report on the country. The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said it had come out with a report exclusively […]
Uruguay Army official appointed head of UNMOGIP
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed a veteran Uruguay Army general as the chief military observer of the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan. Major General Jose Eladio Alcain will succeed the incumbent UNMOGIP chief Major General Per Gustaf Lodin of Sweden, who will complete his two-year assignment this month, an […]
Dozens killed as another ferry sinks in Indonesia
JAKARTA, — Passengers trapped for a night on a stricken ferry off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi were rescued early Wednesday, officials said, as the death toll rose to 31 with three people missing and believed drowned inside the vessel. The latest in a succession of boat tragedies in Indonesia began on the same day that […]
Bomb kills 3 oil company employees in southwestern Pakistan
Pakistani police say a bomb detonated by remote control killed three workers doing a survey for a local oil exploration company in the country’s southwest. Local police official Mohammad Hussain says Tuesday’s bombing near the town of Dera Bugti in the Baluchistan province also wounded five surveyors. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but […]
UN, World Bank Chiefs Visit Rohingya Refugee Camps
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he heard “unimaginable” accounts of atrocities during a visit today to vast camps in Bangladesh that are home to a million Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar. Guterres described the situation for the persecuted Muslim minority as “a humanitarian and human rights nightmare”, as he prepared to tour […]
Afghan Sikhs, Hindus grieve after suicide attack kills 19
At least 19 people were killed and 21 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of Afghan Sikhs and Hindus waiting to meet President Ashraf Ghani in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Sunday. Scores of mourners shouted “death to Ashraf Ghani” and “death to the government” as they placed coffins […]
Trump, Putin to hold summit meeting in Helsinki on July 16
US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will hold a summit meeting on July 16 in Helsinki, Finland, the White House announced today. They “will meet on July 16, 2018, in Helsinki, Finland,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said. “The two leaders will discuss relations between the United States and Russia […]
India preparing for cut in oil imports from Iran
NEW DELHI: India’s oil ministry has asked refiners to prepare for a ‘drastic reduction or zero’ imports of Iranian oil from November, two industry sources said, the first sign that New Delhi is responding to a push by the United States to cut trade ties with Iran. India has said it does not recognize unilateral […]
Pakistan’s NSA Naseer Khan Janjua resigns
Islamabad: Pakistans National Security Adviser Nasser Khan Janjua resigned from his post on Wednesday. A statement released by his office stated that his resignation “is to morally coincide and principally support the process of democracy upon completion of the tenure of the previous government”, the Express Tribune reported. Janjua’s resignation was accepted by caretaker Prime […]
Here to make India-US relations stronger, says Nikki Haley on three day visit to India
United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley said the major focus of her visit to India is to strengthen the relation between Washington and New Delhi. The 45-year-old Nikki Haley, begins a three-day visit to India on Tuesday. Haley, who is the Permanent Representative to the UN with cabinet rank, is to meet senior Indian government […]
