Tehran, Aug 9 (IANS) The recent bilateral talks between Iran and the US over outstanding sticking points in Tehran’s nuclear programme were useful, a senior Iranian nuclear negotiator said Saturday. “The main focus of bilateral talks with the US in Geneva Thursday was the existing differences” between Iran and the world powers pertaining to the country’s […]
Riyadh, Aug 9 (IANS) The Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Saturday called for a united stand to show solidarity with the Palestinians against the Israeli atrocities. In a GCC statement during a forum in Morocco, Abdul Latif bin Rashid Al Zayani demanded a united stand to put an end to the Israeli crimes against […]
Manama, Aug 8 (IANS) Three clerics in Bahrain have been forbidden from preaching in mosques following allegations that they incited sectarian hate. Sunni cleric and Bahrain Quran Society chairman Adel Hassan Al Hamad was summoned to the interior ministry Thursday where he was told “he could no longer conduct Friday sermons”, Gulf Daily News reported. Shi’ite […]
Agartala, Aug 6 (IANS) The first confirmed case of dengue has been reported in Tripura, an official said here Wednesday. “A man was found with dengue virus at the G.B. Pant Medical College and Hospital here. This is the first case of dengue in Tripura,” health department spokesperson Pranab Chatterjee told IANS. He said the state […]
Santiago, Aug 6 (IANS) Greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural activity in Latin America doubled in the past 50 years and will continue to worsen if nothing is done to reverse the trend, a UN agency has said. Emissions of carbon dioxide from agricultural and animal farming in the region increased from 388 million tonnes to more […]
Hiroshima, Aug 6 (IANS) Hiroshima, the Japanese city that suffered US atomic bombing in 1945 during the World War II, commemorated the 69th anniversary of the bombing Wednesday at the city’s Peace Memorial Park. Addressing survivors of the attack, their descendants, peace activists and officials, including Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US Ambassador to Japan […]
Aligarh, July 31 (IANS) The Muslim Chamber of Industries and Commerce here Thursday demanded that beef export should be stopped immediately while buffalo meat export must be contained. The demand was made in a resolution unanimously passed at its meeting here. In another resolution, the MCCI suggested steps be taken to increase production and export of […]
Ramallah, July 26 (IANS) At least two Palestinian teenagers were killed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, officials said Saturday. A 16-year-old boy was killed in the West Bank city of Bethlehem during violent protests over the Israeli offensive in Gaza, Xinhua reported. The other teenager was killed during clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian […]
Gaza, July 26 (IANS) At least eight people were killed and 10 injured Saturday in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip, taking the toll in Gaza since the beginning of an Israeli offensive July 8 to 878. On Saturday, eight people, including four children, died in their house in the southern Gaza Strip city of […]
Title: The Half Mother; Author: Shahnaz Bashir; Publisher: Hachette; Pages: 182; Price: Rs.295. There are many untold stories from the Kashmir Valley, and the ones that have been told are merely a dot in the vast expanse of lives permanently scarred with haunted memories, bitter experiences and mournful ambiguities. In between this unknown space is […]