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 […]
Kathmandu, July 3 (IANS) The Nepal government has for the first time set a minimum limit for the amount under foreign aid, government officials said here Wednesday. Endorsing the new Development Cooperation Policy-2014 this week, the government also has introduced a minimum amount for foreign grants, soft and commercial loans from the country’s development partners, Xinhua […]
The wizard is in his element. Only he doesn’t have a magic wand in his hand. No Abracadabras or if you are a desi no ‘Choo mantars’. No long diversionary talk or showmanship. Just a run up to what is to come. And plain act. Everyone in the small private audience is skeptical. Fingers crossed. […]
Violence against the women and children is an evil of the society that everyone is trying to fight from a long time. The male-dominated world, as they call it has always seen the women being subjugated by the men or the patriarch. Be it any social structure, the women have also been lowered down. The west looks down […]
By Prantick Majumder, Jhadol (Rajasthan) Craving a mobile phone but unable to afford it, a boy, not even in his teens, dropped out of school in his Rajasthan village to join friends working at a cotton plantation in neighbouring Gujarat. What followed was a harrowing two months that not only shows how child labour is flourishing […]
Isha Sahni Poor Shane Warne! The Australian cricketer has suffered his share of angst. There was this time he walked out of a press where he was to unveil a likeness of himself in soap that was to be auctioned for a children’s charity when a reporter remarked: “Hey Shanie, that looks rather lean.” It […]
Violence against the women and children is an evil of the society that everyone is trying to fight from a long time. The male-dominated world, as they call it has always seen the women being subjugated by the men or the patriarch. Be it any social structure, the women have also been lowered down. The west looks down […]
Recently, actress Preity Zinta raised allegations of molestation against her former beau and business partner Ness Wadia. The news spread in the country like fire, with every newspaper, news channels and blogs posting with the answers to the WHY and WHAT of the masses. The news has not got much reaction from the film fraternity, […]