BBC: India’s Supreme Court prides itself on defending the rights of Dalits – historically the country’s most oppressed citizens. But a new study argues that the court’s own language has frequently reflected the caste hierarchies it aims to erase. About 160 million Indians are Dalits, once called “untouchables”, yet many remain trapped in menial jobs and shut […]
BBC: President Zelensky has said Kyiv’s priorities in peace talks to end the war with Russia are maintaining Ukraine’s sovereignty and securing strong security guarantees. Zelensky said “the territorial issue is the most difficult”, as Russia continues to demand that Ukraine give up areas of the eastern Donbas region that it still holds – which […]
Zee news: Indian Railways Update: In a major comfort upgrade for train travellers, Southern Railway’s Chennai Division has announced that sleeper-class passengers in non-AC coaches will soon enjoy access to pillows and bed sheets onboard. Starting 1 January, passengers will be able to rent clean, mechanized-washed linens during their journey, ending the long-standing practice of carrying […]
Reuters: HONG KONG, Dec 1 – Hong Kong authorities said on Monday they had arrested 13 people for suspected manslaughter in a probe into the city’s deadliest fire in decades, pointing to substandard renovation materials for fuelling a blaze that has claimed at least 151 lives. Police continued to sweep the seven burnt-out towers engulfed in Wednesday’s […]
ABC: THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The president of the International Criminal Court said during the institution’s annual meeting Monday that it will not bow to pressure from the United States and Russia. Nine staff members, including six judges and the court’s chief prosecutor, have been sanctioned by U.S. President Donald Trump for pursuing investigations into U.S. and Israeli officials, while Moscow […]
ཨེ་བི་སི། སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༡༢ པའི་ཚེས་ ༡ ལུ་ འགོ་དཔོན་ཚུ་གིས་ བཤད་དོ་བཟུམ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ པ་ཀིཛ་ཏཱན་གྱི་ ནུབ་བྱང་ཁ་ཐུག་ལུ་ ཨཕ་གྷ་ནིཛ་ཏཱན་དང་ མཐུན་སྦྲེལ་ཡོད་མི་ ས་མཚམས་ཁར་ རང་སྲོག་བཅད་ཐོག་ལས་ རྫས་བམ་ཅིག་ འགས་བཅུག་མིའི་ནང་ ཁྲིམས་སྲུང་འགག་སྡེའི་ འགོ་དཔོན་ཅིག་ལུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་མ་ཚད་ གཞན་མི་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་ལུ་ཡང་ རྨ་སྐྱོན་བྱུང་ནུག་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས། རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཕྱི་ནང་ ༢ ཀྱི་ གནས་ཚུལ་ཁ་གསལ་ཚུ་ གློག་རིག་སྒྲིག་བཀོད་ (PDF) ཐོག་ལུ་ གཟིགས་འདོད་ཡོད་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ འགྲུལ་འཕྲིན་ཨང་ ༡༧༡༡༡༡༠༧ ཐོག་ལུ་ འབྲེལ་བ་འཐབ་གནང་།
ABC: ISLAMABAD — A suicide bomb attack near a police vehicle in restive northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan killed at least one officer on Monday and wounded several others, officials said. The attack happened in Lakki Marwat, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, local police official Ashfaq Khan said, without providing further details. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in a […]
BBC: At least four people,including three children,have been killed in a mass shooting at afamily gatheringin California, authorities say. The victims were eight, nine, 14 and 21 years old, a spokesperson for the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office said on Sunday. Eleven others were injured in the incident at a restaurant in the state’s northern […]
BBC: In an interview on Sunday with NBC, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that Mr Lakanwal had been “radicalised since he’s been here in this country” and that officials believed this happened “through connections in his home community and state”. Mr Lakanwal, an Afghan national, entered the US as part of the Biden-era Operation […]
BBC: A Russian missile attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro has killed four people and injured 40, authorities have said. Unconfirmed reports say a ballistic missile was used in the strike, which took place on Monday morning. Videos shared online showed a large explosion occur on the side of a motorway, and local […]