The World Health Organisation on Thursday highlighted the urgent need to provide everyone equitable access to HIV prevention, treatment and care to end the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030.
Chinese crowds hold up blank sheets to hit out at censorship
They have become a symbol of China’s recent wave of protests: Blank, white sheets of paper held aloft by demonstrators to signify their opposition to anti-virus lockdowns, censorship and restrictions on free speech, media report said.
Hong Kong publisher’s national security trial postponed
The trial of a Hong Kong newspaper publisher who was arrested in a crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement was postponed on Thursday after the territory’s leader asked China to effectively block him from hiring a British defense lawyer.
Russia blames NATO enlargement for Ukraine conflict
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday blamed NATO enlargement for the Ukraine conflict.
US, France pledge to hold Russia accountable for ‘war crimes’
US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to hold Russia accountable for “widely documented atrocities and war crimes”
Vizhinjam port protest: Cops book bishop for ‘promoting enmity’
The Kerala Police on Thursday booked the convenor of the Fishermen’s protest outside the Vizhinjam seaport in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram.
Cattle slaughter ban act caused deficit of Rs 5,280 crore: Kharge
Former Karnataka minister Priyank Kharge on Thursday alleged that the state is facing a financial burden of Rs 5,280 crore since the Cattle Slaughter Ban Act came to the fore.
India’s electricity consumption grows 14 pc to 112.81 bn units in Nov
India’s power consumption logged a double-digit growth of 13.6 per cent to 112.81 billion units in November 2022 compared to the year-ago period, according to the government data.
Apologies for misinterpreted remarks: Lapid on ‘The Kashmir Files’
Offering a “total apology” if his remarks on “The Kashmir Files” had been misinterpreted, Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid has said his aim was not to insult the Kashmiri Pandit community or those who had suffered.
Vizhinjam attack was with ‘clear ulterior intention’, says Kerala CM
Breaking his silence over the recent violent attack on a police station by anti-seaport agitators, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday criticised the incident, saying such protests took place with a “clear ulterior and heinous intention” to destroy tranquility in the society.
