Yoga remained a ray of hope amid the crisis: Modi
By IANS At a time when the entire world has been fighting the Covid-19 pandemic,
Month: June 2021
Forced displacement at record level: UNHCR
The number of people fleeing wars, violence, persecution, and human rights violations, rose last year to nearly 82.4 million people, a further four percent increase on top of the already record-high of 79.5 million, recorded at the end of 2019.
Guterres: Bring crimes of sexual violence in conflict out of ‘the shadows’, punish perpetrators
Sexual violence in conflict “reverberates down generations” and threatens both human and international security, the UN chief said on Thursday in his message for the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict.
Ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi announced winner of Iran’s Presidential elections
Sixty years old Ebrahim Raisi, head of the judiciary, is known to be close to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Russia monitors talk of Turkish base in Azerbaijan: Kremlin
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia was in close contact with Turkey, a NATO member, on stabilizing the situation in the southern Caucasus
One in 100 deaths is by suicide: WHO
WHO guidance to help the world reach the target of reducing
suicide rate by one-third by 2030
Biden talks down Russia, spurs allies in bid to back Putin into a corner
President Joe Biden on his first foreign foray sought to cast Russia not as a direct competitor to the United States but as a bit player in world where Washington is increasingly pre-occupied by China.
Biden, Putin hold ‘great power’ summit
The leaders agree to return their Ambassadors to their posts in an attempt to lower tensions.
India, China should consider buffer zones on LAC, hotline: Ex-PLA officer
Zhou wrote both sides should dust off previously agreed confidence-building measures
Rajnath Singh calls for free and open Indo Pacific at key ASEAN meet
“India supports freedom of navigation, overflight, and unimpeded commerce in these international waterways.”