Month: October 2018

First Aid emergency care & medical facilities by Indian Railways available at all Railway Stations and in all passenger carrying trains

All the front-line staff deployed in trains and at stations viz. Ticket Checking Staff, Train Superintendents, Guards, Station Masters etc. are properly trained in rendering First-Aid open view web desk Ministry of Railways is providing the First Aid emergency care & medical facilities at all Railway Stations and […]

Union Home Secretary chairs review meeting with representatives of social media platforms

Discussions held to prevent misuse of social media sites by undesirable elements open view web desk The Union Home Secretary Shri Rajiv Gauba, along with senior officers of Ministry of Home Affairs; security agencies; MEITY; Department of Telecommunications, took a meeting with representatives of Facebook, Google, Twitter, Whatsapp, […]

AP Investigation: Hospital patients held hostage for cash

NAIROBI, Kenya — The Kenyatta National Hospital is east Africa’s biggest medical institution, home to more than a dozen donor-funded projects with international partners — a “Center of Excellence,” says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The hospital’s website proudly proclaims its motto — “We Listen […]

Bitter taste for Cuba as it imports sugar for the first time

Sugar: it’s so quintessentially Cuban that even a young, machete-wielding Fidel Castro used to hack away at the cane stalks vital to the Caribbean island’s economy. Now, the long-time world leader in sugar production is importing the stuff for the first time, and in large amounts, from France […]

Trump admin urged to end discrimination against Asian-Americans students

Washington, Oct 25: An influential Republican lawmaker on Wednesday urged the Trump administration to bring an end to discrimination against Asian-American students applying for admission to higher educational institutions in the US. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher wrote a letter in this regard to the Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in the […]

Koregaon Bhima case: Maharashtra govt moves SC challenging Bombay HC order

New Delhi, Oct 25: The Maharashtra government Thursday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay High Court order by which the extension of time granted to state police to conclude probe in the Koregaon Bhima violence case was set aside. The Bombay High Court Wednesday had quashed the lower […]

Central Bureau of Investigation hit by infighting, government orders probe

NEW DELHI – India’s government on Wednesday ordered a probe at the country’s top crime fighting bureau after its two senior officers accused each other of bribery and interference in police investigations. The weeks-long public spat between Alok Verma, director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), and […]

Worried about iPhone eavesdroppers? China says Trump may need a Huawei

BEIJING – China’s foreign ministry has some suggestions for the Trump administration if they are worried about foreign eavesdropping on the U.S. president’s iPhone: use a Huawei handset instead. Or just sever ties with the outside world completely. The riposte came after a New York Times report that […]

Ethiopia appoints Africa’s only female president

Ethiopia on Thursday appointed a woman to the largely ceremonial position of president for the first time, further increasing female representation in the government of Africa’s second most populous nation. In a unanimous vote, Ethiopian lawmakers picked career diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde, 68, to replace Mulatu Teshome who resigned […]

NATO shows Russia its military might in giant exercises

Norway hosts NATO’s biggest exercises since the end of the Cold War from Thursday, to remind Russia the Alliance stands united despite seeds of doubt planted by US President Donald Trump. Some 50,000 soldiers, 10,000 vehicles, 65 ships and 250 aircraft from 31 countries are taking part in […]

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