According to island police, coast guard units rescued 131 migrants earlier today off the southern coast of Crete. On the previous day, a further 395 people seeking to reach the European Union were rescued off the small island of Gavdos, south of Crete.
Guterres's appeal, made late on Friday, follows a peace initiative presented by Sudan's Prime Minister Kamil Idris to the UN Security Council on Monday, which called for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to disarm.
Following a migrant labourer allegedly beaten to death by a group of unidentified miscreants in Odisha's Sambalpur district, West Bengal Police said that six people have been arrested so far in the incident, and a police team had been sent to Odisha to conduct an enquiry at the place of o
Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) and local residents held protests on Saturday, condemning the demolition drive in Yelahanka and demanded immediate rehabilitation of the displaced people in Bengaluru.
Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal delivered the keynote address at the BJP Assam Pradesh State Executive Meeting where he called upon the Party Cadre to capitalise on the position of strength from people's goodwill and support for the Double Engine Sark
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday asserted that suitable housing arrangements would be provided to people who were evicted from makeshift shelters at the waste dumping site in the Kogilu Badavane area near Yelahanka in Bengaluru.
Drawing comparisons with Europe, Sanyal highlighted the strain caused by ageing populations. "In several European countries, retirement ages are being pushed toward 70 or even 75. France today has more people receiving pensions than people working," he said, warning that similar dynamics cou
Assam Assembly Deputy Speaker Numal Momin condemned the mob lynching of a Hindu youth, Dipu Chandra Das, in Bangladesh's Mymensingh district, and said that India should intervene if the international community fails to put pressure on Bangladesh to stop the killing of innocent people.
Sanyal emphasised that "Indian history is not what we have been taught to believe", and that people are led to feel that the Indian had "no agency in world history".