China on Thursday published a report on the human rights situation in the United States. The report, titled “The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2016”, was released by the Information Office of the State Council, in response to “The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2016” issued by the US State […]
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday asserted that the Centre has taken very serious note of the hate crimes against Indians in the US and said the Narendra Modi government will come out with a statement on the issue. “Want to assure the house, that the government has taken up incidents against Indians in […]
The US has started the process to deploy an advanced missile defence system, the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (Thaad) in South Korea to better counter growing threats by North Korea, Seoul’s defence ministry announced on Tuesday. Parts of the anti-missile system arrived on Monday at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, 70 km south of […]
US President Donald Trump on Monday signed a revised version of his executive order on immigration, that places a 90-day ban on people from six predominantly Muslim nations. The new order, which excludes Iraq from the original list of seven countries, will go into effect from March 16. The executive order bars citizens from Sudan, […]
Washington Adolf Hitler’s personal phone, recovered from the Fuhrer bunker in Berlin after the fall of the Nazi regime, sold at an auction in the US for $243,000, a media report said. The Alexander Historical Auctions house sold the device to an anonymous highest bidder in Maryland. The phone was kept in a briefcase in […]
The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) on Wednesday marked Zero Discrimination Day with a “Make Some Noise” campaign, urging people to speak up against discrimination. “Discrimination takes many forms, and can be based on race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or age,” Xinhua news agency quoted UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric as saying. “For this year’s […]
The US Senate approved Ryan Zinke, a former Republican congressman and ex-Navy SEAL, as President Donald Trump’s new secretary of the interior. The 68-31 vote in his favour reflects the fact that his nomination had not generated as much controversy or rejection by upper house Democrats as other people tapped by Trump to comprise his […]
Wall Street closed with strong gains on Wednesday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), the main market indicator, rising 1.45 per cent and ending the day above 21,000 for the first time in history in the wake of President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress. All the major indexes moved into […]
With the surge in instances of people using Facebook Live to stream suicides, the social networking giant is including new options for people to report such videos. According to a report in Abc News on Wednesday, Facebook said that it’s in a “unique position,” through personal connections people have on Facebook, to help connect those […]
Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has admitted defeat in Mosul, the terror group’s biggest stronghold in Iraq, and has ordered militants to either flee or kill themselves in suicide attacks, the media reported. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made a “farewell speech” to his combatants in battlefields, ordering them to “flee and hide in mountainous […]