The university may have broken its convocation ‘jinx’ but issues regarding its functioning – visas for students and campus construction – continue to plague the institution.
No matter what role the ports play in the future – intensifying regional and global rivalries or stimulating development – the Makran coast finds itself at the brink of emerging from isolation.
A group of Hindu zealots celebrates US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trumps’ birthday
The BJP’s reliance on divisive politics over Kairana may end up strengthening the BSP.
Firing between Pakistani and Afghan forces first broke out on Sunday evening at the crossing, about 45 km west of Peshawar, over the construction of a new border post on the Pakistani side.
While the prime minister has stepped up cooperation with Washington, it is important for India to engage skilfully in play-offs with both the US and China.
G4S Security, where Mateen worked as a security guard for nine years, profits from both US border militarisation and the Israeli occupation.
There is still a possibility to make it an institution that can provide some degree of truth, justice and reparations to families of disappeared.
The fate of Himachal’s monkeys are sub judice. Maharashtra and Telangana have killed hundreds of boars. At the moment, it seems innovative and long-term solutions will only be found after this year’s gunfire.
The court has also ordered that a special panel watch the film on June 14, and submit a report on whether it is fit for public viewing on June 16.
Officials said on Sunday the death toll was 50. On Monday, they clarified that the figure included Mateen. Some 53 people were wounded and 29 remain hospitalised at Orlando Regional Medical Center.
The United Nations in 2000 deployed a ceasefire monitoring force on the Eritrean-Ethiopian border but withdrew it in 2008 in response to restrictions imposed on it by Eritrea that the UN said at the time made it impossible for the mission to function.
For some 60 years, military casualties in the civil war were a closely guarded secret, and wounded veterans were kept largely out of public view. Now, amid rapid economic and social reforms that began in 2011, the cost of years of fighting is slowly being revealed.
National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs released its findings a day ahead of its scheduled publication after the Orlando, Florida shooting of over 50 LGBTQ individuals, the worst mass murder in US history.
Indonesia has harsh penalties for drug-related crimes, but temporarily halted executions after facing intense international criticism last year when it executed 14 people, mostly foreign drug traffickers.
There is widespread hostility towards Rohingya Muslims in the Buddhist-majority country, including among some within Suu Kyi’s party and its supporters.
For both the financial markets and the public at large, the monetary policy announcements are primarily about the interest rate changes.
Judith D’Souza, a senior technical adviser with international NGO Aga Khan Foundation, was kidnapped by suspected militants in the heart of Kabul three days ago.
India has to improve its connectivity with growth markets and link into Asia’s production and supply chains. We cannot be left isolated in our own backwater.
While the world mourns the dead in Orlando, in India gays remained persecuted and criminalised; it is time that changed
The court’s order to the censor board to clear the film with just one cut is an occasion for celebration but also further concern and action, say filmmakers and other members of the artistic community.
On the 19th anniversary of the fire tragedy, that claimed 59 lives, the families of victims seek judicial closure through a review petition in the Supreme Court.
The court had on June 2 convicted 11 persons for murder and other offences, while 13 others, were charged with lesser offences.
The court, which was hearing a petition filed by Anurag Kashyap’s Phantom Films challenging the CBFC order, strongly criticised the board for curbing a creative person’s work.
Platforms like African Storybook are helping children overcome academic difficulties by making culturally specific stories borderless.
Through talking to many of the participants of the 1988 operation, Sushant Singh paints a picture that is both informative and readable.
Evidence-based policy-making can help to maintain the constitutionally mandated separation of powers between the organs of the state.
“Liberal” and “progressive” men who do not voice their disagreement with sexist acts are just as implicated in the culture of perpetuating institutional sexism.
Sartaj Aziz claimed that Pakistan has already convinced countries including Russia, New Zealand and South Korea to support the criteria-based approach and that they have always had the backing of China.
The commander of the operation blamed the slow pace on a lack of tanks and said he did not have enough men to hold ground after it was retaken from the militants.
Militants have killed more than 30 people in Bangladesh since early last year, with atheist bloggers, liberal academics, gay rights campaigners, foreign aid workers, members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups among the victims.
Of the total 3,325 people killed in the 198 riots, Delhi accounted for 2,733 deaths.
All kinds of fraudulent claims about Netaji have been made over the years, but no one has provided any evidence to back them
Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has to heal racial indifference within her own party before tackling racial antipathy coming from the Republican camp.
An inability to think out of the box has cost India years in terms of industrial growth and jobs
US officials said they had no immediate evidence of any direct connection with the IS or any other foreign extremist group.
Reiterating the link between the NSG and NPT, China said that the 1968 treaty “provides a political and legal foundation for the international non-proliferation regime as a whole.”
A Muhammad Ali scholar’s moving speech at his memorial funeral asks all those fighting for what they believe is right to trust that “he lives in each and every one of us”.
CTBTO head Lassina Zerbo explains why he has convened a foreign minister-level conference of CTBT member states and key holdouts for June 13.
In June 1914, a Bosnian-Serb revolutionary inadvertently set off the first global conflict of our times. Should he have chosen more peaceful methods to further his cause, the world would be a different place today.
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