National India News
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal at a function here over the weekend suggested that the management committees of private schools should adopt government schools in their neighbourhood. But a similar project launched in his own constituency had sank without a trace five years ago because of alleged lack of coordination and apathy of the government […]
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday said that the nation’s unity was inviolable, notwithstanding the discordant voices being raised in the current scenario. Pointing out that the resolution passed by the Punjab Assembly (on Citizenship Amendment Act) was there for all to see, the Chief Minister made it clear that the State would not […]
Activists, lawyers, academicians and many others have written collectively to the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) asking it to counsel its own top brass on the law from which it derives its powers as well as international covenants it was created to safeguard instead of issuing orders to ‘identify’ and ‘counsel’ children […]
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said the resolutions against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, passed by several Assemblies recently, were “political statements” through which they had conveyed their apprehensions over the Centre’s intent behind linking nationality with religion. “The States want the Union government to know of their unhappiness,” he said. Interacting with journalists […]
A coalition of diaspora organisations marked Republic Day in Washington D.C. by gathering to protest the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and related recent policies of the government as part of a U.S. wide “Day of Action”. Among the demands of the protesters are that the U.S. State Department “heed the recommendation of the USCIRF [U.S. […]
Gunmen attacked an army camp in Mali near the border with Mauritania, killing 20 soldiers Sunday, the government and armed forces said. The camp in Sokolo in the Segou region remains under the control of Mali’s military, the armed forces said in a statement on Twitter. Mali’s government said there was significant material damage in […]
A volley of rockets landed near the U.S. Embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Sunday, two security sources told AFP, in the latest unclaimed attack on American installations in the country. Reporters heard loud thuds emanating from the western bank of the Tigris, where the U.S. Embassy and most other foreign diplomatic missions are […]
Donald Trump demanded the dismissal of Marie Yovanovitch, the Ambassador to Ukraine and a key figure in the President’s impeachment trial, according to a video recording released to U.S. media on Saturday. The footage was reportedly taken during an April 2018 donor dinner at a hotel and released to news outlets by an attorney for […]
The United Nations decried “continued blatant violations” by several countries of an arms embargo on war-torn Libya, flying in the face of recent pledges made last week at an international conference in Berlin. The UN support mission in Libya didn’t name any specific nations, but said they included “several who participated in the Berlin Conference.” […]
The United States will not lift sanctions on Iran in order to negotiate, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted late on Saturday, seemingly in response to a Der Spiegel interview with Iran’s Foreign Minister. “Iranian Foreign Minister says Iran wants to negotiate with The United States, but wants sanctions removed. @FoxNews @OANN No Thanks!” Mr. Trump […]