BBC News: Kansas voters have chosen to uphold abortion rights in the first electoral test of the deeply polarising issue since the US Supreme Court allowed states to ban the procedure outright. Voters overwhelmingly said they did not wish to amend the state constitution to assert there is no right to abortion. If the ballot […]
BBC News: Russia has accused the US of direct involvement in the war in Ukraine for the first time. A spokesperson for Moscow’s defence ministry alleged the US was approving targets for American-made Himars artillery used by Kyiv’s forces. Lt Gen Igor Konashenkov said intercepted calls between Ukrainian officials revealed the link. The BBC could […]
BBC News: US Speaker Nancy Pelosi has met Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen in a visit that has been strongly condemned by China. Ms Pelosi, the most senior US politician in 25 years to visit Taiwan, said her delegation had come to make it “unequivocally clear” that the US would not “abandon” the island. China had […]
India Today: Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has a 34 point lead over former finance minister Rishi Sunak among the Conservative Party members who will decide Britain’s next prime minister, a YouGov poll for The Times newspaper showed on Tuesday. The poll, which The Times said was conducted over the past five days, showed 60% support […]
NDTV News: Former Nepal prime minister K P Sharma Oli has claimed that he was removed from power last year after his government published a new map of Nepal that included Kalapani, Limpiyadhura and Lipulekh as its territories. The Lipulekh pass is a far western point near Kalapani, a disputed border area between Nepal and India. […]
Hindustan Times: Senior diplomat Ruchira Kamboj who took charge as India’s new permanent representative to the United Nations on Tuesday presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. In a tweet, she said it was a privilege to be the first Indian woman to be given the honour to hold this position. She also slipped […]
BBC News: China has branded a landmark visit to Taiwan by US Speaker Nancy Pelosi as “extremely dangerous”. It accused Ms Pelosi, the most senior US politician in 25 years to visit the island China claims as its own, of “playing with fire”. “Those who play with fire will perish by it,” Beijing warned in […]
NDTV News: A Bangkok-bound Indian man was caught at the Delhi airport today for carrying US dollars worth over ₹ 15 lakh by allegedly concealing them inside layers of crunchy ‘papad’ packets, a senior officer said. The passenger was intercepted around 5 am during security checks at the terminal-III of the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) […]
ABC News: India will give a $100 million line of credit to the Maldives to support development projects, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday after holding talks with his counterpart, President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. Solih arrived in India on Monday for a four-day visit. The two countries inked six agreements to boost cooperation in […]
BBC News: The first signs of an operation that was months in the making erupted when an attack rocked the centre of Kabul in the early hours of Sunday morning: we heard two thunderous blasts on our street nearby. Speculation swirled around who or what had hit this “empty house” in Sherpur. It is a […]
June 2022 THIMPHU-BHUTAN: In the last six months from January to June 2022, the Ministry of Healthhas detected 40 new HIV cases (19 male and 21 female). This is one of the highest cases detected in thesix-monthly reports until now. Out of 40 newly diagnosed cases, the majority (70%, n=28) are between theages of 25-49 […]
NDTV News: A 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped multiple times by two men, one of them aged 76 years, who lured her with ₹ 10 whenever they committed the crime recently in Chhattisgarh’s Balodabazar district, police said on Tuesday. As per the preliminary investigation, the girl was raped over a couple of days before the […]
