Continuous floods and riverbank erosion have severely altered Assam’s geography, swallowing over 4.27 lakh hectares of land, roughly 7.5 percent of the state’s total area, since the devastating 1950 earthquake. With an average of 8,000 to 10,000 hectares of fertile land washing away Continue Reading

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has significantly scaled back its food assistance in the besieged Gaza Strip due to an acute funding shortage. Consequently, nearly 500,000 Palestinians in Gaza are now facing extreme food insecurity. In a statement issued on Monday, October 19, the WFP disclosed that it has received less than half […]Continue Reading

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi launched a sharp critique of the Samajwadi Party and its leader Akhilesh Yadav during a public rally in Rampur ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. He accused traditional political parties of historically treating Muslims merely as a vote bank while failing to provide adequate Continue Reading

The coastal fishing town of Eyl in Somalia’s Puntland region has emerged as a new epicentre of a renewed piracy crisis, with six commercial vessels hijacked off the Horn of Africa since late last April. This resurgence has severely undermined the region’s long-standing period of relative stability, threatening international shipping lanes and local livelihoods Continue Reading

Widespread anger and despair are escalating among the younger generation across Europe. Growing discontent over crises in the education system, skyrocketing living costs, and defence policies is now marking a new turning point in the continent’s political landscape, according to a report by international news outlet Al Jazeera. Analysts suggest that today’s Continue Reading

Prominent folk singer Neha Singh Rathore has faced a severe and unfounded defamatory campaign by the Hindi news channel ABP News, which broadcast a false report alleging a police raid on a sex racket at a hostel associated with her. The controversy ignited when the channel posted a nine-second video clip on its digital platform […]Continue Reading

A major political crisis has unfolded across France as nationwide student protests over crumbling school infrastructure, teacher shortages, and the rising cost of living have escalated into a broad anti-government movement. The demonstrations originally erupted last month in working-class neighbourhoods north of Paris before rapidly spreading to major cities including Continue Reading

A decision by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to bypass New Delhi, summon Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar to Mumbai for a meeting and then visit an oil refinery in Jamnagar, Gujarat, has triggered a diplomatic controversy in India. Critics say Washington is treating India’s top diplomat like a subordinate official. According to […]Continue Reading

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in India’s Assam state has evicted more than 1,100 Muslim families over two days, most of them Bengali Muslims. The eviction drives were carried out in Nagaon, Golaghat and Hojai districts. Eviction drives targeting marginalised communities, particularly Bengali Muslims, have become a recurring feature in the state. On the Continue Reading

Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a trilateral summit with US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss ending the war in Ukraine. He has suggested holding the meeting in China next month, but Trump has yet to agree to the proposal, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. According […]Continue Reading