Jaffna: Gopal Bagay, the Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, made a trip to the country’s North-East, the traditional Tamil homeland, ahead of a crucial vote on the island nation at the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council Session (UNHRC) in Geneva. During his visit on March 13,Continue Reading
New Delhi: It has been 55 days, 71 countries, 58.6 million doses and counting into India’s Covid-19 vaccine diplomacy. And the first ever summit of the Quad leaders March 12 gave it a whole new booster shot. While 8.08 million doses have been sent as gift, free of charge, 16.52Continue Reading
By Grace Panetta New York: Former President Barack Obama says his ideal hypothetical group chat of world leaders would include Pope Francis, the Dalai Lama, German, and former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. “The Dalai Lama, I love that guy, Pope Francis, a genuinely good man,” Obama said in anContinue Reading
By Miki Perkins Melbourne: Anjali Sharma first felt a sick sense of climate-related dread in the pit of her stomach when she was a primary school student. Keen to find out more about climate change, the 16-year-old watched an online video that warned Earth only had eight years before itContinue Reading
Washington: Indian-American aerospace engineer has told US President Joe Biden that her path to the premier US space agency began when she watched the first episode of Star Trek as a child. Swati Mohan has played a pivotal role in the successful landing of NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars. SheContinue Reading
London: An Indian origin doctor is among infectious disease experts, who have expressed concern about Pope Francis’s upcoming trip to Iraq. They cited a sharp rise in coronavirus infections there, a fragile healthcare system and the unavoidable likelihood that Iraqis will crowd to see him. No-one wants to tell FrancisContinue Reading
New York: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has announced the appointment of Ligia Noronha of India as Assistant Secretary-General and head of the New York Office of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). She will succeed Satya Tripathi of India, who was thanked by secretary-general for his leadership and dedicatedContinue Reading
Kolkata: India’s coast guard personnel have rescued 81 Rohingya refugees from a boat adrift in the Andaman Sea. “The engine of the boat failed on February 15 and since then it has been drifting,” Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said in a press briefing on FebruaryContinue Reading
Washington: Anjali Bharadwaj, an Indian social activist working on issues of transparency and accountability, is one of the 12 “courageous” individuals named by the Biden administration for the newly-instituted International Anti-Corruption Champions Award. According to the State Department, the 48-year-old Indian woman has served as an active member of theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: An Indian magazine has won a prestigious American award for upholding conscience and integrity in journalism. The Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism on February 8 chose New Delhi-based The Caravan, a journal of politics and culture, for the 2021 Louis M. Lyons AwardContinue Reading