Headlines- On Monday at 14:00 GMT, the US military says it would start blockading Iranian ports, preventing ships from entering or leaving Iran from passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
- In the southern town of Biyyada, Hezbollah claims that its men have attacked Israeli soldiers with "a swarm of attack drones."
- US President Donald Trump's threat to block the Strait of Hormuz was deemed "ridiculous" by Iran's navy chief, Shahram Irani.
- Any military ships approaching the Strait of Hormuz "will be considered a violation of the ceasefire and will be met with severe force," according to a statement released on Sunday by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
- The speaker of Iran's parliament Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf is leading the delegation that has arrived to Pakistan for talks with the United States.
- Nawaf Salam, the prime minister of Lebanon, stated that he was working to ensure the withdrawal of Israeli forces and to put an end to the Israel-Hezbollah conflict.
- Viktor Orban, the longtime prime minister of Hungary, has conceded defeat to Peter Magyar in the country's legislative election.
Tag: Indian Women
Political Parties Woo Women Voters in...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other political leaders are wooing female voters ahead of the upcoming national election in India. These voters have been turning up in large numbers to vote in recent polls.
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
Community Radio Station Empowers Women in...
A community radio station in one of northern India’s most backward districts is empowering women by encouraging them to work at the station and helping them tackle issues such as domestic violence in a patriarchal society. Anjana Pasricha visited the station in Haryana state’s Mewat district to see the transformative role it is playing across 170 villages that it reaches~VO
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
As they Close the Gap with...
In India, as the number of women voters surges, the country’s on-going general election is expected to close the gap with men. That is making political parties pay more attention to women’s issues
Female Politicians Aim to Secure Seats...
In the ongoing elections in India, two regional parties have created a stir because of the number of women they’ve chosen as candidates. The Trinamool Congress has fielded 40 percent women contestants and 33 percent of the candidates for the Biju Janta Dal are women
What’s In a Name?
In India’s northern Haryana state, a campaign that aims to empower women and give them equal status in a deeply patriarchal society is encouraging residents in scores of villages to display their daughters names outside their village homes