Monsoon in India to add insult to virus injury

With hospitals already severely stretched, coronavirus-hit India is now bracing for the monsoon and its deadly annual onslaught of mosquito-borne illnesses, with an overwhelmed...

Pakistan’s positivity rate of the COVID-19 is 22%, WHO

Pakistan’s positivity rate of the deadly coronavirus is now 22 per cent, finds a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Positivity rates, which...

Chennai lockdown reimposed amid flurry of new coronavirus cases

Authorities in the Tamil Nadu state capital Chennai are imposing a new 12-day strict lockdown amid a resurgence in coronavirus cases in the region....

Achilles heel for PTI: The foreign funding case

Seventy is the number of times the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) scrutiny committee has met, so far, in the PTI-foreign funding case. Make...

Iran violating nuclear deal: Israeli intelligence report

Tehran called on the international nuclear watchdog to maintain neutrality and refrain from “unconstructive” decisions based on a biased Israeli intelligence report that claims...

Top Russian newspaper editors quit, denouncing censorship

Senior editors at Russia's leading business newspaper quit Monday in protest against what they say is censorship under new ownership, as a months-long dispute...

Karachi affair: why has a French court convicted three former government officials?

A Paris court has found three former French government officials and three others guilty on charges involving kickbacks from arms sales to Pakistan and...

EU and US talks against China: EU diplomatic chief

The EU's chief diplomat on Monday called for Europe and the United States to launch talks aimed at forging a common transatlantic front against...

Pentagon surplus handouts stoke the militarization of US police

When US police flooded the streets around the country to confront protesters two weeks ago, for many it appeared like the army had deployed,...

America faces not one but two pandemics

America is being ravaged by not one, but two, pandemics and both have a lot in common. Both are invisible, equally widespread, mutate in response...

Pakistanis heartbroken after Sushant Singh commits suicide

A score of Pakistani celebrities have taken up the matter of mental health and depression after the suicide of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. While Indians...

Tracing the roots of Hindutva & Modi’s BJP party

Modi is not wrong in heralding the spectre of Akhund Bharat, currently resting in the Reich of Hindutva. He is not wrong in fancying...