At least 40 others injured, with officials in Andhra Pradesh state saying many suffered extensive chemical burns. An explosion at a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in southern India’s Andhra Pradesh state has killed at least 15 people, according to a government official. Rescue operations were under way late on Wednesday after…
The man is accused of claiming that a Muslim asylum seeker was suspected of a knife attack that killed three girls. A Pakistani man has appeared in court to face charges of cyber-terrorism after allegedly spreading disinformation on his clickbait website thought to have fuelled anti-immigration riots in the United…
Accident in central province of Yazd was blamed on a defective braking system, according to preliminary police probe. At least 28 pilgrims from Pakistan have been killed and 23 injured after their bus overturned in central Iran, according to Iranian state media. The accident took place late on Tuesday in…
Chris Patten, the current chancellor of Oxford University, announced in February that he would be stepping down. Jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has applied to become the next chancellor of Britain’s prestigious University of Oxford, his party says. The Oxford alumnus “formally submitted” the request via Sayed Zulfikar…
Bangladesh’s interim prime minister has also pledged to maintain the country’s important garment industry. Muhammad Yunus, the interim leader of Bangladesh, has delivered his first major government policy address in which he promised to support the Rohingya community seeking refuge in the country and maintain Bangladesh’s garment trade. Setting out…
Thousands march in streets of Kolkata as authorities struggle to contain demonstrations calling for justice. Some Indian junior doctors have remained off the job as they demanded swift justice for a colleague who was raped and murdered, despite the end of a strike called by a large doctors’ association, as…
NewsFeed ‘Dreaming of a doctorate while planning her wedding.’ The family of the trainee doctor who was raped and murdered in a Kolkata hospital has spoken to the media, providing new details about who she was. Her father thanked the protesters across India and asked for harsh consequences for the…
Indian doctors observed a nationwide strike, escalating protests after the “barbaric” rape and murder of their colleague that has channelled outrage at the chronic issue of violence against women. The discovery of the 31-year-old doctor’s bloodied body at a state-run hospital in Kolkata, the capital of the eastern state of…
Hospitals hit by 24-hour shutdown as protests demanding protection for health workers and condemning violence swell. Hundreds of thousands of Indian health workers and their supporters have launched a nationwide strike to protest against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor last week at a government hospital in the…
Kabul, Afghanistan – In an apartment near a Taliban headquarters, a young woman is discreetly moving about. Breshna* is 24 years old. Today, as on every day for the past year, her hands are sweaty and shaking. Yet her movements must be meticulous. She’s cutting the hair of one of…
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