Headlines- In a Hellfire missile attack in the Gulf of Oman, US Central Command claims to have "disabled" a commercial ship flying the Gambia flag while it was attempting to travel for an Iranian port.
- The US has enough weapons stockpiles, according to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, to resume military operations if needed.
- Nawaf Salam, the prime minister of Lebanon, has cautioned that Israel cannot guarantee its security via a "scorched-earth policy."
- After the finding of a "object suspected to be a floating mine" in the Strait of Hormuz, Omani authorities issued an alert on Saturday advising ships to proceed with caution.
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo's Minister of Communication, Patrick Muyaya, says that the Ebola outbreak doesn't "need to be in panic."
Tag: Indian News
India Urged to Rethink Its Policy...
India must now “be bolder” in considering its policy regarding questions on Tibet, deputy speaker of Tibet’s India-based exile parliament Yeshi Phuntsok told RFA’s Tibetan Service in an interview last week
Sino-Indian Border Clash Unlikely to Escalate...
Thousands of Indian and Chinese troops have faced off in recent weeks at three or four locations in the western Himalayas after Beijing’s forces intruded into Indian territory, according to Indian security officials and local media.
Coronavirus Pandemic In India Has Seen...
In Delhi, police arrested a man for allegedly calling a woman “coronavirus” after he had spit ‘paan’ on her face. The woman has filed a police complaint alleging that the discriminatory remarks made by the man. The man was arrested under Section 506 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which deals with the crime of using words, gestures or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman
Terrorists In India Are Using Online...
The NIA found that the youth chemicals like ammonium powder for making IEDs, batteries, clothing and other accessories were bought by him from Amazon using his online shopping account on the retailer’s platform. He disclosed to the NIA sleuths that he was acting on the directions of Pakistan based terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammad
The 5 Most Recent Banking Frauds...
Over The Last Couple Of Years There Has Been At Least Seven Cases Of Bank Fraud That Have Rocked India As Well As Put Millions Of Customers And Their Hard Earned Money At Risk. In All Of The Cases, Senior Bank Officials Were Found To Have Been Involved In The Scandals Either Through Forgery Or Intentional Irresponsible Behaviour Amounting To Criminal Activities
Missing women in India Rise More...
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) Global report 2018 on human trafficking, the majority of the detected victims of human trafficking for sexual exploitation were women. The report also stated that 35% of the trafficked persons were sent to forced labour – including a large number of women
India: Sharp Increase in Use of...
In 2015, only dour cases reached trail stage and there was conviction in none of them. The conviction rate – the percentage of people booked under the sedition charges being convicted in court, was just 15.4% in 2018, 16.7% in 2016 and 33.3% in 2017, according to data available in the Crime in India 2018 report by the NCRB
A Village Benefits as India Links...
India spends billions of dollars on social welfare support for the poor but corruption, fraud and inefficiencies often prevent the benefits from reaching them. But now, the government is starting to transform the way it gets welfare to the poor by linking welfare programs to the world’s biggest biometric identity project under which more than one billion people have been given biometric cards. Anjana Pasricha reports on how residents of a rural hamlet in the northern Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh are benefiting after it switched from cash to digital payments