The recent wave of violent attacks on Asian-Americans, culminating in the mass shooting in Atlanta on March 16, underscores the urgency of defending the rights and security of all, Raja Krishnamoorthi said. Democracies around the world, including the U.S. and India, are facing challenges, Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi has said. “Today, one cannot escape the feeling that America’s democratic institutions are facing unprecedented threats,” he said on Wednesday commemorating the ‘International Day of Conscience’, which was on April 5. He was referring to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.“In response to the January 6th insurrection, Americans must rededicate…
Author: Mike Harrison
The recent killing of three vaccinators points to the dangers facing the campaign as turmoil grows in the country. Afghanistan is trying to inoculate millions of children against polio after pandemic lockdowns stalled the effort to eradicate the crippling disease. But the recent killing of three vaccinators points to the dangers facing the campaign as turmoil grows in the country.The three women were gunned down in two separate attacks on March 30 as they carried out door-to-door vaccinations in the eastern city of Jalalabad.It was the first time that vaccination workers have been killed in a decade of door-to-door inoculations…
A port city in eastern China has launched an ambitious plan to build the country’s fifth rocket launch site, under a longer-term goal to ramp up space infrastructure to meet the demands of an expected boom in commercial missions.An engineering company in eastern Zhejiang province won a tender on April 1 to construct the launch pad in Ningbo city, as well as a section of the command centre and an assembly and testing facility, according to a document posted on the website of the Ningbo Free Trade Zone.As part of the Zhejiang government’s infrastructure plans for 2021-2025, Ningbo will invest…
In a statement, the U.S. Navy said the McCain “conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit on April 7 through international waters in accordance with the international law.” China on Thursday protested the passage of a U.S. destroyer through the Taiwan Strait in the latest move as both nations increase their naval activity in the region.China tracked and monitored the USS John S McCain throughout its passage on Wednesday, Zhang Chunhui, spokesperson for the Chinese military’s eastern theatre command, said in a statement.The U.S. move sent the “wrong signal” to Taiwan’s government and “willfully disrupted the regional situation by endangering peace…
Schools have made arrangements for implementing the COVID-19 protocols. The Plus Two higher secondary examinations for this academic year kicked-off on Thursday morning in compliance with COVID-19 protocols.The Plus Two students are appearing for the Sociology, Anthropology, Electronic Service Technology (Old), Electronic Systems papers.Though 4,46,471 students in all are to take the Plus Two examinations in 2004 centres, the first day’s papers will see only around 70,000 students reach 933 exam centres across the State. The Science and Commerce papers will get under way on Friday.The SSLC examinations on Thursday will be held from 1.40 p.m., and students will sit…
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday cited media reports to allege Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was attending public rallies despite coming into contact with a COVID-19-positive person.Ms. Vadra also charged the Chief Minister’s Office of giving inaccurate figures on the rate of infection and said that there was a long waiting period at crematoriums and rush at hospitals, which was creating panic among people.“According to media reports, UP Chief Minister is going to rallies even after coming in contact with Covid + person,” Ms. Vadra alleged.On April 2, the Congress general secretary, who was her party’s…
“A withdrawal would not only leave America more vulnerable to terrorist threats; it would also have catastrophic effects in Afghanistan,” a bipartisan experts group said. Without coming right out and saying it, President Joe Biden seems ready to let lapse a May 1 deadline for completing a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Orderly withdrawals take time, and Mr. Biden is running out of it.Mr. Biden has inched so close to the deadline that his indecision amounts almost to a decision to put off, at least for a number of months, a pullout of the remaining 2,500 troops and continue…
The ban on local and foreign tourists at the site will last until April 20, the government agency overseeing the archeological site said. Cambodia is closing its most famous attraction, the Angkor temple complex, to visitors because of a growing COVID-19 outbreak in the Southeast Asian nation.Cambodia has confirmed 3,028 cases of infection with the coronavirus, with 23 deaths, since the pandemic began more than a year ago, but the newest outbreak has infected several hundred people. On Thursday, the Health Ministry said 113 cases were reported from local transmission, with two deaths.The ministry traced the outbreak to a foreign…
The Biden administration seeks to undo the steps undertaken by former U.S. President Donald Trump. The Biden administration announced on Wednesday it would provide $235 million in U.S. aid to the Palestinians, restarting funding for the United Nations agency supporting refugees and restoring other assistance cut off by then-President Donald Trump.The package, including humanitarian, economic and development assistance, was detailed by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken as part of an effort to repair American ties with the Palestinians that all but collapsed during Mr. Trump’s tenure.It marked Democratic President Joe Biden’s most significant move since taking office on January…
The monarch appeared to be doubling down on the allegations against Prince Hamzah while at the same time trying to reassure Jordanians that the nation was returning to business as usual. Jordan’s King Abdullah II addressed the unprecedented public rift within the royal family for the first time on Wednesday, portraying it as an attempted sedition involving his half-brother that had been “nipped in the bud,” but caused him anger, pain and shock.The monarch appeared to be doubling down on the allegations against Prince Hamzah, a former crown prince, while at the same time trying to reassure Jordanians that the…