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The WHO chief has lauded South Korean officials and exhausted health workers for their efforts to contain a deadly (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) MERS virus outbreak. Their relentless work …
Read MoreAmid ongoing ferment in the South China Sea marked by China’s assertive posturing, the Philippines is set to hold simultaneous naval drills next week with its close allies, the United …
Read MoreUS technology giant and one of the major networking equipment manufacturers, Cisco, has joined the bandwagon of Make in India and has pledged to pour $2 billion into the world’s …
Read MoreIt’s a humanitarian gesture that shows the possibilities of going beyond parochial posturing to creating lasting goodwill in both countries. A day after India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi called his …
Read MoreAfter protracted posturing and sharp rhetoric, India and Pakistan are now making placatory noises saying they want to improve and normalize their bilateral relations. New Delhi, however, put the onus on Islamabad, indicating that any marked improvement in the accident-prone bilateral ties can happen only after the latter delivers on its promise of curbing anti-India terror.
Speaking at a think tank in New York, India’s Finance Minister Arun Jaitley underscored that India wanted to improve or at least normalise its relations with its neighbour, but made it clear that the onus was on Islamabad.
“The message that we are interested in normalising our relationship with them or at least improving our relationship with them and the onus is on Pakistan for this purpose has been loud and clear,” he said at the New York-based think-tank Council on Foreign Relations.
Read MoreImparting a fresh momentum to the country’s development agenda, the Indian government is set to launch three mega urbanisation projects, which is estimated to cost around $94 billion. These signature …
Read MoreFor more than a decade now, the Armed Forces, especially the senior hierarchy, finds itself besieged by all manners of unprecedented challenges, both from within the establishment and outside. Not …
Read MoreIndia’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slated to visit Israel later this year and seeing it as an opportunity to deepen strategic ties, US lawmakers have passed a legislation which …
Read MoreMr Modi, who is known to be a tech savvy Prime Minister, launched a new mobile application- the ‘Narendra Modi Mobile App’- which will provide users with a direct interface …
Read MoreThe United Nations refugee agency has released statistics that show the number of displaced people around the world has reached more than 60 million people. That means one in every 122 people on the planet is either a refugee, internally displaced or seeking asylum. And while this is reportedly the highest level of displaced people ever recorded, there is profound apathy in global responses to the refugee crisis.
While UNHCR head Antonio Guterres told the BBC that the “world is a mess”, stricken with conflicts which are causing the crisis with no clear end in sight, he also mentioned how the lack of a humanitarian response is a major impediment in cleaning up the mess.
The statistics are grim. The report says that 59.5 million people were displaced by the end of 2014, which included 19.5 million refugees, 38.2 million internally displaced people and 1.8 million still awaiting the outcome of asylum claims. Of these numbers, a staggering 50% of the refugees were children. Almost 86 per cent of all refugees are in the developing countries, which lack the infrastructure and resources to tackle the challenge.
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