Month: March 2019

Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller contributed to US man’s cancer: jury

open view news desk The weedkiller Roundup was a “substantial factor” in the cancer of a US man who developed a lump in his throat after decades of spraying his garden — the second major legal defeat to agrochemical giant Monsanto in a year. Edwin Hardeman, 70, treated […]

Syrian refugee father and son buried as New Zealand funerals begin

A Syrian refugee and his son were buried in New Zealand on Wednesday in the first funerals of those killed in the twin mosque massacre as Kiwis braced for days of emotional farewells following the mass slayings. An Australian white supremacist gunned down 50 Muslim worshippers at two […]

Advisor Ganai inaugurates seminar on ‘Plant and Fungal Diversity’ at JU

open view news desk JAMMU : Advisor to Governor Khurshid Ahmed Ganai today inaugurated two day UGS-SAP sponsored National Seminar on ‘Plant and Fungal Diversity: Status and Challenges and Symposium on Ecology’ here at Department of Botany University of Jammu. In his inaugural address, the Advisor recounted the […]

May tries to save Brexit plan ahead of EU summit

British Prime Minister Theresa May will write to EU President Donald Tusk with a plan for delaying Brexit beyond March 29, her spokesman said, admitting the parliamentary deadlock had reached crisis levels. The letter will be sent before May heads to a Brussels summit on Thursday, where she […]

Netflix dramatises notorious India gang-rape murder case

Filmmaker Richie Mehta was at first reluctant to make Netflix’s latest Indian series, documenting the aftermath of the notorious gang-rape and murder of an Indian student that made global headlines. Jyoti Singh, a 23-year-old physiotherapy student, was violently raped and assaulted and left for dead by five men […]

Rags-to-riches Skoda mulls post-Brexit sales woes

Once the butt of jokes, Czech-made Skoda cars have won over Brits, but the UK’s looming exit from the European Union could deal a heavy blow to the brand and the entire Czech economy. Britain is the fifth largest export market for the Czech Republic, an EU member […]

Mozambique, Zimbabwe cyclone deaths exceed 300 as UN boosts aid

The death toll from a cyclone that smashed into Mozambique and Zimbabwe rose to more than 300 as rescuers raced against the clock to help survivors and the UN led the charge to provide aid. “We already have more than 200 dead, and nearly 350,000 people are at […]

Karadzic faces final verdict in Bosnia war crimes case

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will on Wednesday hear the final judgment on his role in the bloody conflict that tore his country apart a quarter of a century ago. In one of the last remaining cases from the break-up of Yugoslavia, UN judges in The Hague […]

HRW urges Japan to change transgender ‘sterilisation’ law

Japan should “urgently” revise a law that effectively requires transgender people to be surgically sterilised if they want legal recognition of their gender identity, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. Under rules introduced in 2004, transgender people who wish to change their official documents must appeal to a family […]

Traders burn Chinese goods a day before ‘Holika-dahan’

Jamshedpur :  Traders here burnt Chinese goods to protest China’s move to use its veto in the UN Security Council against declaration of JeM chief Masood Azhar as a “global terrorist” A heap of Chinese toys, mobile phones, CCTV cameras, footwear, clothes and other items were burnt at Bistupur […]

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