“UN national personnel – women and men – have been instructed not to report to UN offices, with only limited and calibrated exceptions made for critical tasks,” according to a statement issued on Tuesday by its office in Afghanistan. The ban is the latest in a series of discriminatory measures that restrict Afghan women and girls…
Ambulance delays in the UK have led to people taking the sick or injured to hospital on their own rather than waiting for an ambulance to arrive. According to a recent study, people who needed urgent medical attention, including accident and emergency cases, managed to get themselves to the hospital instead of waiting for an…
America rejected China’s claim; Photo: File Beijing: China has claimed that the Air Force forced the American plane to flee illegally entering the country’s airspace. According to the World News Agency, the Chinese military has alleged that the US warplane illegally entered the airspace of the maritime boundary in South China, which threatened the peace…
Iconic photo Due to power outages in India, people living in villages are facing severe problems and they are forced to pay money to charge their mobile phones and water pumping. According to Indian media reports, the series of power cuts in the city of Gorakhpur in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh has been…
Photo, screen grab A traffic jam in the Indian state of Bihar forced the students to flee. According to Indian media, hundreds of students of class 10 left their homes to take the exam with their parents, but due to the traffic jam on the highway, they were surrounded by difficulties. According to reports, many…
Congresswoman Angie Craig Congresswoman Angie Craig belonging to the Democratic Party of America was attacked in Washington, she saved her life by pouring hot coffee on the attacker. Angie’s chief of staff, Nick Coe, said in a statement that the congressman defended herself from the attacker, but she was injured. Angie called 911 but the…
“We are very disturbed that in recent years the residential school system for Tibetan children appears to act as a mandatory large-scale programme intended to assimilate Tibetans into majority Han culture, contrary to international human rights standards,” they said in a statement. Erosion of identity Residential schools provide educational content and an environment centred around…
