Notwithstanding intense pressure by Tamil parties, India on Wednesday maintained suspense over its position on a resolution on human rights to be moved against Sri Lanka at the United Nations, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying it will depend on the final draft.
You don't prep for 2028 but for 2040, or even 2044. Sustained sporting excellence is based on mass support, grassroots development, and funding - and it is this trifecta India needs to work on, systematically, asserts Prem Panicker.
Britain has granted refugee status to Mohamed Nasheed, the former president of the Maldives who was jailed in 2015 after a trial that drew international criticism.
After making a dramatic appeal for political asylum at the Ecuador embassy in Knightsbridge, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said he was "grateful" to the government of the south American country for considering his application. After Assange arrived in the embassy on Tuesday afternoon and sought political asylum, the Ecuador embassy said that he was "under the protection of the Ecuadorian government".
"Our parents talked to us about Maradona, and we will talk to our sons about Messi. We hope that we will win the cup, and we can celebrate with him and all the people in Argentina," said Nicolas Gomez, a fan from Argentina.
Addressing the 34th Session of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Ajit Kumar hit out at Pakistan for destabilising the situation in Jammu and Kashmir by promoting infiltration and cross-border terrorism, inciting, promoting and glorifying violence.
Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid said that women should not go to work for their own safety.
The Tibetans were participating in a global 'Solidarity Rally for Tibet' initiated by the Tibetan Parliament in Exile on Monday, coinciding with the World Human Rights Day, which was also declared as the Tibet Solidarity Day.
Dr S Nambi Narayanan, the retired Indian Space Research Organisation scientist whose bio-pic the film is, has tested positive for COVID-19.
Sri Lankan President Mahindra Rajapaksa on Tuesday told the United Nations General Assembly that Colombo is concerned over the growing trend of international interference in the internal affairs of developing countries in the guise of concern for security and human rights.
Seven aid workers who were working for the World Central Kitchen, a charity delivering food to besieged Palestinians, were killed in the Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Tuesday. The victims comprised three British nationals, an Australian, a Polish national, an American-Canadian dual citizen and a Palestinian.
Dr K Rashmi and Rajath from Hyderabad share a special memory from July 1999 about their father, Raghu Vir Kurmati.
In a tough message hours after the United Nations slapped 'biting' sanctions on the Libyan regime, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told a bellicose Muammar Gaddafi to leave the country and end his regime as soon as possible.
More than 300 monuments, landscapes, museums, bridges and other landmarks across more than 75 countries were lit up in the official colour of the United Nations.
'The credibility of the messenger here is highly suspect. This is something which the global community is aware of'
Hard-line Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Monday rejected the Truth and Reconciliation Commission proposed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and demanded a United Nations-appointed factfinding mission to probe the unmarked graves in Jammu and Kashmir. "We vehemently reject the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as we do not expect justice from the system which is perpetuating human rights violations in the state," Geelani said.
"Getting to Zero" means zero new infection, zero discrimination, zero HIV/TB infection, zero human rights violation against HIV-affected people, and zero AIDS-related deaths.
The coveted QS rankings indicate that India is slowly but steadily overtaking other nations in the field of education.
The envoys of member-nations of the council, which has often condemned human rights violations in member-states, have been very clear that the issue is not likely to come up during the meetings, and some have even questioned whether it posed a threat to international peace and security, a yardstick for council action. The Chinese diplomats said the issue did not come up in the council on Monday, maintaining it does not pose threat to international and peace and security.
By passing this bill, Congress is showing that the US will not turn a blind eye to the suffering of the oppressed, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said.
The United Sikhs, a United Nations-affiliated international non-governmental organisation, has moved the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg challenging a French law, passed in March 2004, which bans wearing of conspicuous religious signs, including the Sikh turban, in public schools in France.The United Sikhs lawyers filed a petition against France, on behalf of Jasvir Singh and Ranjit Singh, who were 14 and 17 respectively at the time when they were expelled.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has asked Sri Lanka to find a speedy political solution to the underlying factors behind the country's civil war which ended three years ago.
There is the problem of regions in the North East being theatre for power-play by nations with borders and influences converging in those parts, which in turn requires a sizable presence of the armed forces, notes Shyam G Menon.
Sri Lanka has refused to cooperate with a United Nations investigation into alleged war crimes during the final phase of the country's civil war, saying it will not subject itself to the jurisdiction of the top rights body.
India has told the United Nations that governance of cyber space should be democratic and transparent and cannot be managed as a "private property".
Irrespective of all the criticism that he is facing in America, Ahmadinejad's meeting with Dr Singh looks almost certain, sources have revealed.
With the rift in AAP deepening, NRI supporters of the party have appealed to its leadership to stand united and resolve all their differences peacefully.
Pakistan on Monday summoned the Indian High Commissioner to express serious concerns over the killings of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani and many civilians in Kashmir and called for "fair and transparent" inquiry against individuals responsible for "blatant" violation of fundamental rights.
Pakistan on Thursday accused India of adopting an 'untenable, illegal and amoral' position on the issue of Kashmir and said New Delhi should come forward for meaningful and result-oriented talks aimed at resolving the decades-old issue.
India has said the multiple terror attacks in Paris and Beirut highlight the urgent need to finalise a global convention on terrorism.
'We should not believe that our ability to expand production is infinite. 16 per cent of cultivated land is already almost exhausted.' Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on food, in an exclusive interview.
Indian-Americans are taking over the country, United States President Joe Biden said on Thursday, referring to the high number of people from the community getting a place in his administration.
The Srinagar police detained chairman of the moderate All Parties Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Moulvi Umar Farooq along with other senior leaders of the group in Srinagar on Thursday.
'The problems that the film explores still remain. It was a different time when we made the film. We were young and we thought we could change the world.'
The anti-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Assam, on Monday condemned the arrest of Pallab Borbora, a human rights activist and director of a private school by the National Investigation Agency from Merapani in Golaghat district of Assam on charges of having links with Maoists.
India is one of the countries aiming for a seat on an expanded UNSC.
Iran's ambassador to the UN said the US allocation of $3 million for 'promoting democracy and human rights' in Iran was a clear violation of a 1981 US-Iranian agreement signed at Algiers.
'We should not use and confuse the word Right to define Hindutva.' 'Doing so blurs the issue because it gives the BJP attributes that it does not have and does not even want,' says Aakar Patel.
The rankings were prepared after examining the volume of terrorist and rebel alerts, messaging traffic, videos, photos, incidents and the number of killed and injured in a country over the past 30 days.
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