UK Asian Business Council (UKABC), a UK-based consultancy firm, brings Paras Hospitals, Gurgaon to Kashmir Valley to tie-up for super speciality facilities with Ramzaan Hospital Srinagar. “Paras Hospitals and Ramzaan Hospital Srinagar have come together to conduct OPD and IPD facilities in Srinagar for 16th and 17th September 2017,” chairman UKABC Taha Islam Coburn-Kutay said. […]
International divisions emerged today ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on a worsening refugee crisis in Myanmar, with China voicing support for a military crackdown that has been criticised by the US, slammed as “ethnic cleansing” and forced 370,000 Rohingya to flee the violence, AFP reported. Beijing’s intervention appears aimed at heading off any […]
Up to a million Catalans have gathered in Barcelona to call for independence less than three weeks before the region is due to hold a vote on whether to break away from Spain, the Guardian reported. For the sixth successive year, Catalonia’s national day – La Diada de Catalunya – was used as a political rally by the […]
A 22-year-old man was thrashed allegedly by five men for speaking with his friend in fluent English while dropping him off at a five-star hotel in Lutyens’ Delhi, police said on Monday, news agency PTI reported. The incident was reported in the early hours of Saturday and three people have been arrested in this connection, […]
The world is more dangerous today than it has been in a generation, the head of Nato has said, days before the mobilisation of an estimated 100,000 Russian troops on the EU’s eastern borders, and as a nuclear crisis grows on the Korean peninsula, the Guardian reported today. Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of the military alliance, […]
One of Myanmar’s most influential Buddhist preachers, Ashin Wirathu, preaches compassion towards mosquitoes but death for Muslims. The UK newspaper the Guardian has termed the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar “a crime against humanity”. In its editorial on September 4, the newspaper said, “…the military in Myanmar will not even tolerate their [Rohingya Muslims] existence, and […]
Twitter has blocked more than a dozen accounts and about hundred tweets related to Kashmir after it received official communication from the Indian government asking it to block accounts and tweets. In a letter dated August 24, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology asked Twitter to block 19 accounts, most of these with tweets […]
A recent survey by the Transparency International states that India is the most corrupt country in Asia, a media report said. Depicting how pervasive the problem is across Asia, a list released by Forbes – Asia’s Five Most Corrupt Countries - says that India beats Vietnam, Thailand, Pakistan and Myanmar, when it comes to bribery […]
Srinagar As the genocide of Rohingya Muslims continues in Myanmar, the Israeli government continues supplying weapons to the regime, an opinion piece carried by Haaretz said today. “Despite what is known at this point from the report of the United Nations envoy to the country and a report by Harvard University researchers that said the […]
A delegation led by former Union minister and BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has released its third report on the current situation in Kashmir. The earlier such visit was in November 2016. The Concerned Citizens Group (CCG) has put forth its findings in the form of this report. Here is the full text of the report: The […]