London: The reports of sexual exploitation of the disaster victims, by the employees of the international voluntary organisation, ‘Oxfam’ have surfaced. There are 123 incidences in three countries of such abuse. After the senior officers of the organisation, based in Britain, exposed this matter, Penny Lawrence, the Deputy chief executive of the organisation, resigned. European […]
New Delhi : India signed a significant military agreement with Seychelles, an archipelago nation in the Indian Ocean. This agreement states that India will set up military infrastructural facilities for Seychelles on Assumption Island, and also have access to use them. Last year China had erected a military base on Djibouti Island in the Indian […]
Mumbai : The Mumbai Coast guard squad has seized narcotics worth 3500 Crores from a ship near Gujrat-Porbandar. An international racket of smuggling narcotics is suspected to be behind this. This is claimed to be the biggest case in India till date of smuggling narcotics using oceanic route. There is news that the Intelligence Agency, […]
Tehran: Nations that participate in the coalition to fight against terrorists must answer as to why no action has been taken against terrorists in their own land, demanded Iran while castigating Pakistan. The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has rebuked Pakistan while asking it to seek an account for the proceedings carried out by it […]
Damascus/Beirut: In the early hours of Thursday morning, Israeli fighter planes launched air strikes on Syria destroying an arms depot under Iran’s possession. The head of the Israeli intelligence agency informed that Israel launched this attack as Hezbollah was being supplied weapons from this depot. Israeli Minister of Intelligence ‘Israel Katz’ informed this to the […]
Kolkata: The infiltration of terrorists smuggling along with them arms, drugs and fake currency from Bangladesh to India has been a source of perennial concern to India. Adding to this now, ‘wheat blast’ a fungal disease has been spreading over the crops in West Bengal via Bangladesh. On account of ‘wheat blast’ the wheat crop in […]
Gaza: Hamas has elected Yahya Sinwar, a hardliner, as its next leader in the Gaza Strip. Current Prime Minister of the Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, made Sinwar’s announcement. It is claimed that Haniyeh will be handling other responsibilities after the election of Sinwar. It is believed that Hamas’ announcement of Sinwar as their new leader, known […]
Khyber : Pakistan completed the construction of border gate along the Torkham Border which was one of the recent reasons of conflict between Afghanistan & Pakistan. Pakistan claims that the constructed check post will help to control the infiltration from Afghanistan. However Afghanistan claims that the construction work at Torkham is illegal and will have […]
Caracas : Venezuela, a Latin American country whose economy is known to be mainly dependent on oil is now facing acute shortage of food and essential commodities, creating chaos in the country. In the last two days, 125 thousand of Venezuelans are desperate to leave their country and enter neighboring Colombia for their basic needs like […]