Citizens take to the streets to rejoice over cease-fire between Israel and Islamic Jihad; Photo: File Gaza: After 5 days of fighting between Israel and the Islamic Jihad organization, the leader of the Palestinian freedom struggle, a ceasefire was agreed upon. According to the World News Agency, Egypt has announced that a ceasefire has been…
“Hundreds of thousands of Tibetans have reportedly been ‘transferred’ from their traditional rural lives to low-skilled and low-paid employment since 2015, through a programme described as voluntary, but in practice their participation has reportedly been coerced,” they said in a statement. ‘Cultural and political indoctrination’ They noted that the labour transfer programme is facilitated by…
Collage courtesy of Twitter A shocking incident has come to light in India where a 70-year-old woman had to walk barefoot for several kilometers to collect her pension from the bank. A video from the Indian state of Odisha is going viral on social media, in which a weak woman can be seen walking barefoot…
“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…
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…
