Sonu Sood crowned top global Asian celebrity for 2020
INDIAN actor Sonu Sood, who won praise for his charitable work helping migrant workers in India during the pandemic, has been named the number...
Brazil investigates rescue of maid enslaved for nearly 40 years
A Brazilian woman enslaved as a maid from the age of eight for almost four decades and forced into marriage has been rescued in...
Preparations in full-swing as Cyclone Burevi nears Sri Lanka
SRI LANKA evacuated 75,000 people from homes on the east coast, where tropical cyclone Burevi, packing winds of 80 kph to 90 kph (50...
Covid, pandemic and lockdown: how 2020 changed the world
When the world celebrated the dawn of a new decade with a blaze of firework parties and revelry on January 1, few could have...
Race, ethnicity to be included in Twitter’s hate speech rules
Twitter Inc has expanded its policy barring hateful speech to include “language that dehumanises people on the basis of race, ethnicity and national origin,”...
Anger grows in Sri Lanka over forced Muslim virus cremations
Outrage is mounting in Sri Lanka after at least 15 Muslim coronavirus victims, including a baby, were cremated against family wishes and in contravention...
Myanmar ignoring Rohingya genocide trial measures, say activists
Human rights lawyers and activists said on Monday (23) that Myanmar is continuing to commit genocide against Rohingya Muslims in breach of orders by...
UK police probe mercenaries from Sri Lanka’s civil war
London police said on Monday (30) they have launched an investigation into alleged war crimes by British mercenaries who trained a security force accused...
‘Kung Fu nuns’ deliver aid, health advice in pandemic-hit Himalayas
Trekking for hours in the thin air of the Himalayas, hundreds of maroon-robed Buddhist nuns are carrying vital aid - and health advice -...
Climate change could create 63 million migrants in South Asia by 2050
The growing impacts of climate change have already pushed more than 18 million people to migrate within South Asian countries, but that could more...
