New York, Sep 19 (IANS) A group of countries, led by the UK, met with representatives of the Myanmar government in New York, calling on them to stop the violence against the Rohingya Muslim minority…
Nay Pyi Taw, Sep 19 (IANS) Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday said her country “does not fear international scrutiny” over the ongoing Rohingya Muslim refugee crisis and was “aware of the…
Brasilia, Sep 19 (IANS) For the first time in Brazil’s history, a woman has taken over the prosecutor general’s post, replacing Rodrigo Janot, who held the position for four years. Raquel Dodge was sworn in…
Nay Pyi Taw, Sep 19 (IANS) Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday said that her country does not fear the scrutiny of the international community as over 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have crossed…
United Nations, Sep 19 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed the role of the UN to help reshape “unproductive and unrewarding” finance and redirect investment to creating a better world for all. “The choices we…
Washington, Sep 19 (IANS) Six young undocumented migrants filed suit in San Francisco federal court against President Donald Trump for committing an “unprecedented violation” of their rights by abruptly ending the so-called DACA immigration program….
United Nations, Sep 19 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said at the UN that the international organisation was in need of reform, but he praised the policies being implemented by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. “In recent…
Kolkata, Sep 18 (IANS) Terming the Rohinhya issue as humanitarian, a Bangladesh minister on Monday said the presence of the refugees in his country also had a security angle because of which the administration has…
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) The Congress on Monday said that the delay in action by the Tamil Nadu Governor and Speaker is something “which is seriously liable to be questioned in court” adding that…
Islamabad, Sep 18 (IANS) The Pakistan Peoples Party on Monday lodged three appeals against an Anti-Terror Court verdict that absolved five suspects of conspiring to assassinate the nation’s first woman Prime Minister in 2007. PPP…
Agartala, Sep 18 (IANS) Tripura on Monday became the first state in the country to set up family welfare district committees to deal with the issue of fake and biased complaints by women against their…
Hyderabad, Sep 18 (IANS) AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said the Centre has no legal leg to stand on over the Rohingya refugees’ issue in view of a Supreme Court ruling that refugees are…
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Monday asked School of Open Learning (SOL), Delhi University, to consider the application of a youth who has lost his father in a blast and…
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) The Supreme Court will hear on September 22 (Friday) a CBI plea that challenges the Madras High Court order staying the lookout notice against Karti Chidambaram — son of former…
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) Asserting that the Rohingya issue was very sensitive and the government’s blanket approach will not help sort out matters, the Congress on Monday demanded that the government take all across…
New Delhi, Sep 18 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday was told that Gurugram Bar Association has withdrawn its resolution asking its members not to represent accused officials of Ryan Public School in the case…
Dhaka, Sep 18 (IANS) The UN office in Bangladesh on Monday said that around 415,000 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority community have crossed into the country from Myanmar over the last three weeks. Around…
Kolkata, Sep 18 (IANS) Branding as “inhuman” and “anti-human” the Central governments’ stand on deportation of Rohingyas refugees to Myanmar, the West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) on Monday said it has…
Kolkata, Sep 18 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday asserted that all Rohingyas are not terrorists even as the central government stuck to its stand of deporting the embattled community and said…
Rabat, Sep 18 (IANS/MAP) A Moroccan national has been arrested by security and customs services at the port of Tangier for his involvement in drug trafficking. The man was carrying 6,700 psychotropic pills when he…