CIPRI, CIF participate in Higher Education Forum
Feb 02, 2019, at 07:26 pm
Toronto, Feb 2 (IBNS): Canada-India Project for Research and Innovation (CIPRI) at York Center for Asian Research (YCAR) along with Canada-India Foundation (CIF) participated in a Higher Education Forum in New Delhi, India and in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, between Jan 15 and 18, 2019, media reports said.
Racist yearbook photo row: Virginia Governor Ralph Northam apologises
Feb 02, 2019, at 07:18 pm
Washington, Feb 2 (IBNS): Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has apologised after his yearbook, which is dated back to his student life in 1984, emerged showing a photo featuring men in racist costumes.
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Importance of indigenous languages for development, peace and reconciliation
Feb 02, 2019, at 07:12 pm
Ottawa, Feb 2 (IBNS): The International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL) is a United Nations (UN) observance in 2019 with an aim to raise awareness of the result of the global endangerment of indigenous languages and to establish a link between language, development, peace, and reconciliation, media reports said.
Afghanistan: Bomb blast in Jalalabad leaves two injured
Feb 02, 2019, at 06:45 pm
Kabul, Feb 2 (IBNS): At least two people were hurt as a bomb blast rocked Jalalabad city in Afghanistan on Saturday, media reports said.
Afghanistan: Coalition airstrikes lead to killing of five suspected IS, Taliban terrorists
Feb 02, 2019, at 04:21 pm
Kabul, Feb 2 (IBNS): At least five suspected Taliban and ISIS Khurasan terrorists were killed during separate airstrikes conducted by the coalition forces in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, media reports said on Saturday.
Bangladesh: Security forces arrest four suspected terrorists
Feb 02, 2019, at 04:13 pm
Dhaka, Feb 2 (IBNS): Bangladesh security forces said they have arrested four suspected terrorists who were planning to murder a newspaper editor, media reports said.
UN chief welcomes new Government in Lebanon, after eight-month impasse
Feb 02, 2019, at 10:30 am
New York, Feb 2 (IBNS): United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed, on Friday, the announcement of a new Government in Lebanon; the result of eight months of negotiation, following general elections last May.
Feb 02, 2019, at 10:16 am
New York, Feb 2 (IBNS): Small shelters, some covered in the ubiquitous white sheeting provided by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), dot the dusty grey sun-bleached plain around the village of Goura, in the far north-east of Cameroon.
Feb 02, 2019, at 10:10 am
New York, Feb 2 (IBNS): Hundreds of ancestral languages have gone silent in recent generations, taking with them the culture, knowledge and traditions of the people who spoke them. To preserve and revitalize those that remain, the United Nations on Friday officially launched the International Year of Indigenous Languages, at UN Headquarters in New York.
Aid stepped up to Syria camp; new arrivals say terrorists blocked their escape
Feb 02, 2019, at 10:00 am
New York, Feb 2 (IBNS): Harrowing details continue to emerge of thousands of families who have risked their lives fleeing fighting in Syria’s last ISIL terrorist-held enclave, as UN humanitarians warned on Friday that children are still dying on their way to an overcrowded camp for the displaced, amid access problems and perishing cold.
US ‘pay-and-stay’ immigration scam: 129 Indians arrested
Feb 02, 2019, at 09:20 am
Washington, Feb 2 (IBNS): US authorities have arrested 130 people, including 129 Indians, in connection with the investigation into the “pay-to-stay” immigration fraud incident till Thursday, media reports said on Saturday.
Kim Jong UN, Donald Trump expected to meet in Vietnam at the end of February
Feb 01, 2019, at 03:30 pm
Washington, Feb 1 (IBNS): The second meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump will take place in Vietnam at the end of this month, media reports said on Friday.
US not seeking to topple North Korean regime, says State dept
Feb 01, 2019, at 10:23 am
Washington, Feb 1 (IBNS): US State Department Special Representative on North Korea Stephen Biegun has said that his nation has no intention to topple the Kim Jong Un regime.
US: Miscreants vandalize Hindu temple in Kentucky
Feb 01, 2019, at 09:58 am
Kentucky, Feb 1 (IBNS): A Hindu Temple was vandalized by unknown people in the midwestern US state of Kentucky this week, officials said.
Top envoy to Yemen praises ‘flexibility’ of chief negotiators as new UN mission chief is named
Feb 01, 2019, at 08:58 am
New York, Feb 1 (IBNS): The UN Special Envoy for Yemen said on Thursday that the main negotiators for the warring sides were continuing to show the “necessary flexibility and good faith” to move forward, despite delays in implementing the agreement marking the first steps towards a lasting peace deal, brokered in Sweden last December.
Feb 01, 2019, at 08:55 am
New York, Feb 1 (IBNS): The Holocaust illustrates how easily “people can move from condoning brutality, to committing genocide” and shows that “leaders who sanction hate speech or make anti-Semitic or xenophobic slurs” are encouraging their own citizens “to do the same”, the UN’s head of Global Communications told leading members of the Jewish community at UN Headquarters in New York on Thursday.
Syria: ‘Violence, displacement’ and cold kill 11 infants ‘in the past two days’
Feb 01, 2019, at 08:51 am
New York, Feb 1 (IBNS): “Violence, displacement and extremely harsh conditions” in northern and eastern Syria have killed at least 32 children since December – including 11 infants in the past two days, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) revealed on Thursday.
Independent UN rights expert calls for compassion, not sanctions on Venezuela
Feb 01, 2019, at 08:48 am
New York, Feb 1 (IBNS): The crisis in Venezuela will not be solved by sanctions that “can lead to starvation”, a UN-appointed rights expert said on Thursday. Special Rapporteur Idriss Jazairy, who reports to the Human Rights Council, issued the warning against the background of widespread suffering in the South American country, linked to spiralling economic woes and deep political uncertainty.
New French study shows baby diapers contain harmful chemicals
Jan 31, 2019, at 11:00 pm
Toronto, Jan 31 (IBNS): A new French study, conducted by Anses, which is a French agency in charge of food, environmental, and occupation health and safety, published last week that diapers contain harmful substances including carcinogen, as classified by the World Health Organization (WHO), media reports said.
GDP falls 0.1% in November, says Statistics Canada
Jan 31, 2019, at 08:05 pm
Ottawa, Jan 31 (IBNS): Statistic Canada has said the real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fell by 0.1% in the month of November, media reports said.
Extreme weather grips US, nine deaths reported
Jan 31, 2019, at 03:59 pm
Washington, Jan 31 (IBNS): At least nine weather-related deaths have been reported from the US so far as the continent is experiencing extreme cold conditions for the past several days.
Venezuela crisis: US President Donald Trump speaks with Guaido, congratulates him
Jan 31, 2019, at 03:23 pm
Washington, Jan 31 (IBNS): US President Donald Trump on Thursday called Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido and congratulated him for being the country's leader amid unrest in the South American nation.
US: Kamala Harris programme on CNN gets record views
Jan 30, 2019, at 09:21 pm
Washington DC, Jan 30 (IBNS): Indian-origin US presidential hopeful Kamala Harris gave CNN its highest rating ever for an event with an individual candidate, reports quoted the network as saying.
Philippines: Explosion in Zamboanga mosque kill 2
Jan 30, 2019, at 03:48 pm
Manila, Jan 30 (IBNS): An explosion rocked a mosque in Zamboanga City of Philippines on Wednesday which left at least two people dead, media reports said.
23 ISIS-K and Taliban militants killed in Afghan and Coalition Forces operations
Jan 30, 2019, at 02:39 pm
Kabul, Jan 30 (IBNS) :At least 23 ISIS Khurasan (ISIS-K) and Taliban militants were killed during separate operations and airstrikes of the Afghan and Coalition Forces in the past 24 hours.
North Korea unlikely to fully give up its nuclear weapons: US intelligence
Jan 30, 2019, at 09:31 am
Washington, Jan 30 (IBNS): With a second meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is scheduled to take place next month, a US intelligence report has said the Asian nation is unlikely to fully give up its nuclear weapons.
Human trafficking cases hit a 13-year record high, new UN report shows
Jan 30, 2019, at 09:13 am
New York, Jan 30 (IBNS): The latest Global Report On Trafficking In Persons, released on Tuesday by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) at UN headquarters in New York, shows a record-high number of cases detected during 2016, but also the largest recorded conviction rate of traffickers.
Palestine refugee crisis ‘expanding’; leaving highest number at risk this century across Gaza
Jan 30, 2019, at 09:05 am
New York, Jan 30 (IBNS): “Alarming and expanding” problems affecting Palestine refugees, risk further destabilizing the Middle East, the head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNWRA, said on Tuesday.
Nearly $4 billion needed to protect 41 million children from conflict and disaster
Jan 30, 2019, at 08:46 am
New York, Jan 30 (IBNS): Tens of millions of children living through conflict, disaster and other emergencies in dozens of countries urgently need protection, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, in an appeal for $3.9 billion to support its humanitarian work around the world.
Canada promotes renewable energy innovation in mining
Jan 29, 2019, at 10:21 pm
Ottawa, Jan 29 (IBNS): Paul Lefebvre, parliamentary secretary to Amarjeet Sohi, who is Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, announced the country would be making a combined investment of $4.2-million for two TUGLIQ Energy Corporation projects in Nunavut and Quebec, media reports said.