Photo : shutterstock UN human rights experts recently warned of violence against minorities, media and citizens in India. On March 7, 2024, UN human rights experts raised concerns about violence against minorities, media and citizens in India. They emphasized that the Indian government must take immediate action to address these issues and ensure that the human rights of all citizens are protected. These tragic occurrences have sparked outrage in India, raising major concerns about human rights. UN experts asked for transparent a ..read more

Photo :shutterstock The General Elections of India, 2024 are going on and this will continue for another month. Meanwhile, long-term climate-induced heatwaves keep intruding into socio-economic and political aspects of human lives as several cities of Odisha- a province of India have touched new heights of day temperature and some of them have recorded all-time high with global ranks of second (Baripada), third (Balasore) and tenth (Bhubaneswar) on 30th April 2024 – a news that was covered by almost all the leading Indian newspapers in their front page. Amid this unprecedented cycles of heatw ..read more

Singapore has announced that Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong will take over as the country’s next leader on May 15. Wong, 51, has garnered unanimous support from lawmakers within the People’s Action Party (PAP). He will succeed Lee Hsien Loong, who has held the top job for 20 years. Wong, who earned praise for his management of the island’s pandemic response, has been regarded as Lee’s successor since April 2022. During this time, the ruling party selected him to lead the “4G” or fourth generation of leaders in Singapore’s political parlance—politicians the party aimed to have govern the ..read more

IMRAN KHAN Today, Pakistan and its people stand in confrontation with each other. Almost two years ago, an engineered vote of no confidence was moved against my government and a government cobbled together by the military establishment came into being. Since then, the military establishment, under direct guidance of Gen Asim Munir, the chief of army staff, has tried every tactic to decimate my party’s presence from the political environment of Pakistan. The oppression, torture and denial of our election symbol have been extensively documented, but nothing has worked for t ..read more

Meher Ali :  On April 5, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution urging an arms embargo on Israel and calling on countries to “cease the sale, transfer and diversion of arms, munitions and other military equipment to Israel.” India abstained from voting in favour of this resolution. The resolution came just two weeks after the publication of “Anatomy of a Genocide,” a report by Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, that gave the world evidentiary details on how Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. This report reaffirms the January pr ..read more

People carrying Palestinian flags and banners gather in front of the International Criminal Court on Oct. 18, 2023. Abdullah Asiran/Anadolu via Getty Images Victor Peskin, Arizona State University The International Criminal Court may issue arrest warrants for both Israeli and Hamas leaders, as a result of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israeli civilians and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza, according to Israeli officials and what The New York Times and other media outlets call “foreign officials.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is one of the people who might be named in an arre ..read more

Published On 1 May 2024 The Washington Post on Monday reported that an officer in India’s intelligence service was directly involved in a foiled plan to assassinate a citizen of the United States, who is a vocal critic of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The report added that the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) officer was also involved in the assassination of a Sikh activist last June in Canada. The RAW is India’s external intelligence agency. end of list However, the Ministry of External Affairs of India rejected the report, saying it made “unwarranted and unsubstantiated imputations ..read more

By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | 29 April 2024 (IDN) — At the “Second International Decade for People of African Descent: Addressing Systemic Racism, Reparatory Justice and Sustainable Development“, a European leader spoke out in support of reparations, saying that his country, Portugal, needed to pay the costs for slavery and colonialism. “My country takes full responsibility” for the wrongs of the past,” said Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, at the Forum from 16-19 April at the UN in Geneva. He added that those crimes, including colonial massacres, “had cost ..read more

MDH and Everest are among the biggest packaged spice manufacturers in India.    © Reuters SAYAN CHAKRABORTY,  BENGALURU — India’s packaged spice manufacturers MDH and Everest are under regulatory scrutiny in several countries after their products were allegedly found to contain carcinogenic elements, barely a year after cough syrups made in the South Asian nation were linked to the deaths of over 140 children in Africa. Countries like Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. are weighing investigations into the packaged spices made by the companies after Hong Kong author ..read more

Indian spies were kicked out of Australia after being caught trying to steal secrets about sensitive defence projects and airport security, as well as classified information on Australia’s trade relationships. The so-called foreign “nest of spies” disrupted by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) in 2020 was also accused of closely monitoring Indians living here and developing close relationships with current and former politicians. ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess first alluded to the spy ring in his annual threat assessment delivered in 2021, but, he did not d ..read more