Unemployment In India Rose To 8.3 Percent In December: CMIE
According to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), India’s unemployment rate increased to a 16-month high of 8.3 percent in December, from a flat 8 percent in November. In December, the urban unemployment rate rose to 10.09 percent from 8.96 percent the previous month, while the rural unemployment rate declined to 7.44 percent from […]
Pakistan Highlights Bilateral Terms With Other Nations, Says India Needs To Take Responsibility For Improving Relations
In a new attack on India, Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has criticised New Delhi, saying that it should show some seriousness in engaging in dialogue to resolve all outstanding issues, including Kashmir. During the weekly briefing, Pakistani Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch stated that the country continues to pursue a policy of peaceful […]
‘West Bank Settlement Is Top Priority’: Netanyahu Govt
As part of a coalition deal with its ultra-national allies, Benjamin Netanyahu’s incoming hard-line government put the expansion of West Bank settlements at the top of its priorities on Wednesday, vowing to legalise and annex dozens of illegally built outposts, as reported by the Indian Express. Aside from supporting discrimination against people belonging to the […]
Rohingya Refugees Get Emergency Care In Indonesia After Month At Sea
On Monday, a boat carrying nearly 200 Rohingya refugees reached ashore in Indonesia, the fourth such landing in recent months. The Rohingya, mostly Muslim, are a heavily persecuted community in the Buddhist-majority Myanmar, from where their attempts to escape to Malaysia or Indonesia often involve long, expensive sea journeys on poor-quality vessels. Local police spokesman […]
CBI Arrests Videocon CEO Venugopal Dhoot In ICICI Loan Fraud Case
Two days after Chanda Kochhar, the former managing director and CEO of ICICI Bank was arrested with her husband Deepak in connection with the loan fraud case on Friday, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Videocon Group’s Venugopal Dhoot today. A CBI custody order was later issued for the couple until Monday. The Enforcement […]
Rise And Fall Of The ‘Crypto King’: An Explainer On Sam Bankman-Fried’s Fraud Of The Century
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the now defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has consented to be extradited to the United States to face charges, as reported by the BBC. On Tuesday, the cryptocurrency tycoon was charged in Manhattan’s federal court by the US government’s prosecutors, with a number of offences such as conspiracy to launder […]
547 Detained Syrians Including Children Reported Dead: Syrian Network For Human Rights
Since the Syrian regime imprisoned Yehya Hijazi and his two boys in 2012, their families have held out hope that they are still alive and would be liberated one day. However, their expectations were dashed after a decade of silence from the government, when the independent monitoring organisation – Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) […]
Indian Ministers React After Pakistan’s Nuclear Threat
After India criticised Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari for his “uncivilised outburst” towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the UN Security Council last week, Pakistan Peoples Party leader Shazia Marri threatened New Delhi with nuclear war . Spewing venom against India during her press conference in support of Bilawal Bhutto, Marri said, “India should […]
Existing Laws Sufficient To Deter “Love Jihad”: Karnataka Home Minister
Reportedly, Karnataka Home Minister Araga Jnanendra has said that a separate law isn’t necessary for “love jihad” cases as requested, as the anti-conversion law handles them effectively. Furthermore, the minister has ruled out the necessity of forming a special task force to deal with suspected cases of “love jihad” as demanded by some pro-Hindu outfits. […]
Pakistan Indicts India For Suicide Bombing Near Hafiz Saeed’s Home
Pakistani Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has accused India of orchestrating the 2021 bombing near the house of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) founder Hafiz Saeed, who was blamed for the deadly Mumbai attacks in 2008. In 2021, a suicide bomber attacked a police checkpoint just outside Saeed’s house in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. The blast killed […]
