A senior United Nations peacekeeper was injured after a UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) convoy was violently attacked. The incident took place while peacekeepers were traveling to Beirut airport, with one of the vehicles being set on fire. Protesters Block Beirut Airport Road The attack comes amid rising tensions, as protesters blocked the road […]
Supreme Court Rejects Shamima Begum’s Final Appeal Shamima Begum, who had her British citizenship revoked in 2019, has lost her final legal attempt to challenge the decision. The 24-year-old, who left the UK as a teenager to join the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, will not be allowed to appeal to the UK’s Supreme […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who returned to India from the US on Sunday, attended 20 meetings during his 65-hour visit, government sources said. He also had four long meetings in flights with officials on the way to and back from the US, they added. Sharing details, sources said Modi had […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands Ahead of the Monsoon Session 2021, the Congress has reconstituted its strategy groups in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha by including senior faces such as Manish Tewari, Shashi Tharoor, Ambika Soni, P Chidambaram, and Digvijaya Singh. Tharoor and Tewari are part of the G-23 leaders who had written to […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands US President Donald Trump on Wednesday wouldn’t commit to a peaceful transfer of power if a tally of ballots shows Democrat Joe Biden wins the November election. “We’re going to have to see what happens,” Trump said in response to a reporter’s question at a White House news conference. “You know […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands Restrictions were reintroduced in Australia’s most populous state of New South Wales on Friday as authorities battle to control fresh coronavirus clusters that have emerged in Sydney over the last several days. Group bookings at restaurants, cafes and clubs will be limited to 10 people and patrons inside a venue […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands In a densely packed neighborhood of Delhi, hundreds of homeless people queued up this week as volunteers doled out rice and peas from a vat in the back of a van. Only a handful of the people in the crowd wore masks. There were no hand sanitizers or washbasins in sight […]
By Ritu Capital Sands U.K. inflation picked up for the first time in six months, boosted by the cost of energy, motor fuel and air fares. Consumer prices rose a stronger-than-forecast 1.8% in January from a year earlier, the fastest since July, the Office for National Statistics said Wednesday. Core inflation picked up to 1.6%. […]
By Ritu, Capital Sands The number of people in work in Britain jumped again in the last three months of 2019, according to data which underscored how the labor market defied a slowing of the broader economy ahead of December’s election. The number of people in work jumped by 180,000 to 32.934 million, at the […]
By Ritu, Capital Sands A deep slump in euro-area industrial output at the end of last year highlights the scale of the challenge the sector will face in 2020. The 2.1% drop — the steepest in almost four years — will raise doubts about a meaningful rebound in momentum. The economy barely expanded in the fourth quarter […]
