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 […]
I was so outraged when an American friend said that Asian males were kind of “girly” that I almost hit him with my shoulder bag. But instead I just gave him a cold stare and turned back to my Hello Kitty collection. Westerners have bizarre ideas about gender. A recent book said that the original […]
Dubai, July 22 (IANS) Researchers have detected genetic fragments of deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in the air of a barn housing a camel infected with the virus. MERS is a serious viral respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus and can be transmitted by air to humans. For the study, researchers collected three air […]
Phnom Penh, July 4 (IANS) The Thai military junta has released 14 Cambodian migrant workers imprisoned last month for holding fake work visas, Cambodia’s foreign ministry said Friday. “Thai authorities released them after they determined that the workers were also victims because their brokers made fake documents for them,” Xinhua quoted a ministry spokesman as saying. […]
Damascus, July 4 (IANS) The Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria(ISIS) captured the biggest oil field in eastern Syria Thursday, according to human rights activists. The Al Qaeda splinter group seized al-Omar oil field, the biggest oil field in Syria’s eastern province of Deir al-Zour, after the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front withdrew from the field, […]
Dar es Salaam, July 3 (IANS) The acting Libyan ambassador to Tanzania, Ismail Nwairat, committed suicide Tuesday afternoon, Tanzanian government announced Wednesday. A statement issued by Tanzanian ministry of foreign affairs and international cooperation said Nwairat shot himself to death in his office, Xinhua reported. “Information we have received from the Libyan embassy said Nwairat shot […]