Leh, June 24 (IANS) Ringzin is 65 years old but keen to report for duty on the LAC and help the Indian Army in whichever way possible.
He is one of the many porters in Ladakh who volunteered to car
BY SANJEEV SHARMA
New Delhi, June 24 (IANS) In an interview with IANS, Preetha Reddy Vice Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals and President, NATHEALTH said that there is an urgent need to revamp the Indian
New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) Amid intense Chinese propaganda and 'wolf warriors' aggressive approach to cover up its culpability in spreading coronavirus pandemic, the world powers are joining hands to cou
Targeted for their East Asian looks, people from region bordering China suffer discrimination and harassment
NEW DELHI, June 20(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One after another, people came, took on
Joint Myanmar-Finland project will venture into conflict zones to better protect Southeast Asian nation's forests
KUALA LUMPUR, June 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new five-year project in M
To many among Chile's indigenous Mapuche, the demonstrations sparked by the death of George Floyd recall their own confrontations with police over land rights
BOGOTA, June 18 (Thomson Reuters Fou
'In South Asia, unlike Southeast, East, or Central Asia, there is a natural hegemon: India. China cannot cast it aside easily'
New Delhi, June 18 (PTI): Amidst the Chinese incursion into In
New Delhi/Beijing, June 18 (IANS) China had sought to settle the border dispute with India by finalising its boundary in Tibet in 2001, but the then Atal Bihari Vajpayee government failed to respond, as per a r
Sparked by the murder of healer Domingo Choc, the #GuateRacista movement is an attempt to bring discussions of race and identity into the open
BOGOTA, June 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundred
New Delhi/Beijing, June 17 (IANS) China had sought to settle the border dispute with India by finalising its boundary in Tibet in 2001, but the then Atal Bihari Vajpayee government failed to respond, as per a r
BY NIKHILA NATARAJAN
New York, June 15 (IANS) Driven by a common passion to build world class digital public goods for India, a clutch of 10 mostly reclusive computer scientists are launching the cou
BY VISHNU MAKHIJANI
New Delhi, June 15 (IANS) Life is so fragile that even a virus could bring the world to its knees, says London-based author of Indian-origin Vish Dhamija who has eight works of crime-fic
BY PRADIP BAIJAL
IANS | June 15
India always had problems in dealing with spectrum.
-- We wasted valuable wireless spectrum for fixed line services in 1995, unlike any other country, af
Anti-racism protests in Taipei also draw attention to the rights of the island's original inhabitants
TAIPEI, June 14 (Reuters) - Hundreds packed into a park in central Taipei on Saturday for a B
BY VISHNU MAKHIJANI
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) The Reconstruction Period (1865-77) that followed the conclusion of the American Civil War gave rise to the pejorative term Carpetbaggers to describe pol
In the mountainous region, trees have been cut down as tourism ground to a halt and guards were unable to patrol under tight restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19
SRINAGAR, India, June 12 (Thom
Coronavirus pandemic may spark the first rise in child labor since 2000, the United Nations warned
NEW YORK, June 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The coronavirus pandemic has put millions of childr
Pandemic is also creating fertile ground for movements like Black Lives Matter
LONDON, June 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The coronavirus pandemic is boosting both nationalism and community spi
New Delhi/Mumbai, June 11 (IANS) Rarely have these two mighty Indian megalopolises -- one being the nation's capital and the other its commercial capital -- looked so "helpless".
As a
Only a handful of countries have women leading coronavirus responses, with many nations excluding women almost entirely
ROME, June 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Increased teenage pregnancies, c