Washington: Over a million students in Virginia can now learn about Sikhism as the US State voted in favour of new social studies standards on Thursday that will include Sikhi, or the Sikh faith, in the school curriculum for the first time ever. The Virginia State Board of Education voted in favour of the new History…
United Nations: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday discussed the worsening situation in Sudan with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and underscored the need for “successful diplomacy” which can lead to an early ceasefire and create the ground situation for the safety and welfare of people. Jaishankar, who met Guterres at the UN headquarters here, also…
Islamabad: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari would participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting in India next month, Pakistan’s Foreign Office announced on Thursday, a development that could provide an opportunity to break the ice between the two neighbours. Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahrah Baloch announced the decision at a weekly media briefing here. “Bilawal…
Kathmandu: Prominent Indian mountaineer Baljeet Kaur, evacuated from Mt. Annapurna has Covid-19 and is likely to be discharged in a day or two, organisers of the expedition said on Thursday. Kaur, 27, was found alive on Tuesday, a day after she went missing near Camp IV of Mt Annapurna while descending from the summit point. An…
United Nations: With India becoming the world’s most populous nation, a top UN expert said the big focus for the country now would be quick and effective investments in education, job creation and gender equality that will yield demographic dividend and enable its large population to boost economic growth. According to the United Nations Population Fund’s…
London: Almost 90 per cent of Indians are more vulnerable to public health issues, food shortages and increased risks to deaths due to the deadly heat waves fuelled by climate change in 2022, research by the University of Cambridge revealed on Thursday. The study, published in the ‘PLOS Climate’ journal at a time when several parts…
Washington: The Biden administration is committed to working together with India in groups like the Quad to advance economic growth and expand bilateral cooperation, the White House has said. In November 2017, India, Japan, the US, and Australia gave shape to the long-pending proposal of setting up the Quad to develop a new strategy to…
Beijing: The death toll from a major fire at a hospital building in the Chinese capital rose to 29, including 26 patients, officials said here on Wednesday, as 12 people have been detained including the medical facility’s head and her deputy. The fire which broke out at the Beijing Changfeng Hospital on Tuesday was extinguished within…
London: An 86-year-old British-Sikh woman imprisoned for the murder of her daughter-in-law in a so-called “honour killing” 25 years ago has been released from jail after 16 years. Bachan Kaur Athwal was found guilty of ordering the murder of her 27-year-old daughter-in-law, Surjit Kaur Athwal, after being lured to India in 1998. According to The Sun…
Kathmandu: Deteriorating air quality and hazardous levels of particulate matter (PM) in several South Asian countries, including India and Nepal, poses a severe risk to human health and must be addressed urgently, a Kathmandu-based intergovernmental knowledge centre warned on Wednesday. The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is a knowledge and learning centre working on…
