United Nations, Nov 3 (IANS) UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi has told the UN Security Council that over 800,000 Myanmar Rohingya were probably in the “most acute” situation. Grandi made the remarks…
Beijing, Nov 2 (IANS) China on Thursday blocked a move at the UN to declare Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar a global terrorist, a Foreign Ministry official told IANS. (This story has not been…
Geneva, Nov 2 (IANS) The World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced that it would take 217 years for disparities in the pay and employment opportunities of men and women to end, the media reported. The…
Washington, Nov 1 (IANS) NASA said its Mars 2020 mission will have more “eyes” than any rover before it – a grand total of 23, to create sweeping panoramas, reveal obstacles, study the atmosphere and…
Washington (AP) Exasperated US senators harshly criticised representatives of Facebook, Twitter and Google at a hearing today for not doing more to prevent Russian agents interfering with the American political process as early as 2015….
United Nations, Oct 28 (IANS) A senior UN official has called on Member States, regional organisations and civil society for greater partnership to boost women’s participation at all levels. “We will strengthen the collection and…
San Juan, Oct 24 (IANS) Puerto Rican authorities will start reopening some public schools from Tuesday, a small step towards normalcy weeks after Hurricane Maria left a trail of destruction across the US territory, the…
New Delhi, Oct 24 (IANS) Huawei and Dolby Laboratories on Tuesday announced the worlds first set-top box for Internet Protocol television (IPTV) that supports Dolby Vision high-dynamic-range (HDR) technology. The Huawei Q22 set-top box will…
San Francisco, Oct 23 (IANS) Tech giants Samsung Electronics and Apple will face each other in court for another trial looking into design patent infringement as a US federal judge has ordered a new trial…
Dhaka, Oct 23 (IANS) Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan on Monday visited Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar and urged the international community to stand up to the injustices inflicted on the community….
Dhaka, Oct 23 (IANS) Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday said that Bangladesh gets priority among all of India’s neighbours and bilateral ties were moving ahead at a fast pace. She also laid…
Sydney, Oct 19 (IANS) Climate change and warmer oceans are likely to change reef ecosystems worldwide, reducing the diversity of invertebrates such as crabs, lobsters and sea urchins, Australian scientists have revealed. As the oceans…
Washington, Oct 18 (IANS) US Navy Seal commandos were ready to conduct a raid inside Pakistan, similar to the one that killed Osama bin Laden, if Islamabad failed to rescue a Canadian-American family seized in…
Islamabad, Oct 17 (IANS) The Pakistan Army on Tuesday said there had been no US drone strikes on the Pakistani side of the border in recent days and all military operations had been conducted on…
Muscat, Oct 16 (IANS) The sixth round of Quadrilateral Coordination Group’s (QCG) meeting between the US, Pakistan, China and Afghanistan is being held here to revive peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban….
Dhaka, Oct 16 (IANS) A boat carrying Rohingya migrants capsized off the coast of Bangladesh, leaving 12 dead and over 20 missing, a police official said on Monday. Captain Shahidul Islam, commander of the Bangladesh…
Washington, Oct 10 (IANS) The Democratic Senator for California, Dianne Feinstein, 84, the oldest member of the US Senate, announced that she will stand for re-election in 2018. “I am running for re-election to the…
San Francisco, Oct 9 (IANS) After Facebook and Twitter admitting the presence of Russian operatives on their platforms to influence the 2016 US presidential election, Google has reportedly discovered that millions were spent on ads…
Copenhagen, Oct 7 (IANS) Danish Police on Saturday announced finding a bag containing the dismembered head and legs of a Swedish journalist who disappeared two months ago during a trip with a Danish submariner. The…
Rome, Oct 5 (IANS/AKI) Police here on Thursday arrested a 51-year-old Moroccan man who terrified passsers-by as he wandered outside Rome’s central Termini rail station brandishing a knife. The Moroccan, who is of no fixed…