Relatives have left for the east Ukrainian city of Kharkov to meet her. Timoshenko will be also met by representatives of the European Parliament, Timoshenko’s daughter, Yevgeniya, told Verkhovna Rada, the country’s parliament. The parliament had voted for her release Friday after she was sentenced to jail in October 2011 over an alleged corruption case […]
Kiev, Feb 22 (IANS/ITAR -TASS) Former Ukraine prime minister Yulia Timoshenko was released from jail Saturday, a media report said. Relatives have left for the east Ukrainian city of Kharkov to meet her. Timoshenko will be also met by representatives of the European Parliament, Timoshenko’s daughter, Yevgeniya, told Verkhovna Rada, the country’s parliament. The parliament had […]
Kabul, Feb 22 (IANS) Two policemen were killed and three others wounded when a roadside bomb struck a police van in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz Saturday, police said. “A mine planted by militants on a road in Khanabad district of Kunduz province struck a police vehicle at 1.30 p.m. today killing two police personnel […]
Dubai, Feb 19 (IANS) Ali bin Sumaikh Al Marri, chairman of Qatar’s National Human Rights Committee, has said that given the large number of Indians who live in Qatar, one cannot say the mortality rate among Indian expatriates in the country during the past two years is alarming. Al Marri said a “vested interest lobby” was […]
A senior official of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Monday hailed “good” progress in talks with Iran over its nuclear energy programme. “Since November everything has gone as planned,” said IAEA Deputy Director General for Safeguards Tero Tapio Varjoranta, adding the progress in cooperation with Tehran was “good”. Varjoranta made the remarks a day […]
Former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan Saturday presented the Infosys Science Prizes to five eminent scientists, a noted historian and a reputed linguist at an award ceremony here. The awards are set up by the Indian IT bellwether’s Infosys Science Foundation. Annan, who headed the UN for a decade from 1997 to 2006 as […]
Malala Yousafzai, the teenaged Pakistani education activist attacked by the Taliban, is among the three candidates nominated for this year’s World Children’s Prize, also known as the Children’s Nobel. Yousafzai has been nominated “for her courageous and dangerous fight for girls’ right to education”, according to the the website of the foundation that presents the […]
India and Germany, members of the G-4 grouping, have a strong partnership on regional and international issues and should continue their efforts for a fundamental reform of the UN Security Council, President Pranab Mukherjee has said. In his banquet speech for visiting German President Joachim Gauck at Rashtrapati Bhavan Wednesday night, Mukherjee said: “India attaches […]
Women and girls are major drivers of development, yet in India and elsewhere, they continue to be denied opportunities to have a voice in decisions that affect their lives, and those of their families and communities, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Thursday. Giving the keynote address at the 14th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit […]
The UN has denounced the Vatican for “systematically” adopting policies which enabled priests to sexually abuse thousands of children, BBC reported Wednesday. The Holy See must “immediately remove” all clergy who are known or suspected child abusers, said the UN watchdog for children’s rights. It heavily criticised the Vatican’s attitudes towards homosexuality, contraception and abortion, […]