Ranchi, Aug 14 (IANS) Nineteen migrant workers from Jharkhand’s Bokaro and Hazaribagh districts are stranded in the west African nation of Cameroon and have issued desperate appeals to the central and state governments for their immediate rescue.These workers, who travelled to Cameroon through a private agency to take up jobs related to electricity transmission, allege that their employer has not paid them for the past four months.In a series of videos shared on social media, they described th…

New Delhi, Aug 14 (IANS) India on Thursday slammed Pakistan over its continuous “reckless, war-mongering and hateful comments” against New Delhi, terming it a “well-known modus operandi” of Pakistani leadership to whip up “anti-India” rhetoric to hide its own failures.While addressing a weekly media briefing on Thursday, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal also warned Pakistan of “painful consequences” in case it engages in any misadventure.”We have seen several state…

Islamabad, Aug 14 (IANS) Several protests gripped various parts of Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB) even as the sit-in by the police personnel outside the local leader’s house entered its fourth day on Thursday, local media reported. The policemen has been holding protest to demand increase in their allowance as per the 2025-26 budget. Police personnel from other districts, including those deployed for the security of Chinese nationals in Chilas, were also part of the the sit-in in Gilg…

Vientiane, Aug 14 (IANS) The Lao state-owned Electricite du Laos (EDL) plans to implement a strategy to strengthen the country’s electricity supply in the second half of 2025. According to Lao Economic Daily on Thursday, senior officials and staff from the EDL and related sectors met to review EDL’s performance and outline strategic plans, Xinhua News Agency reported.The EDL faced significant challenges in the first half of the year due to global and regional economic volatility, as well as a sl…

Seoul, Aug 14 (IANS) South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday vowed to address long-standing grievances of Korean women forced into sexual slavery for the old Japanese army during World War II, saying that he would spare no efforts to restore the victims’ “honour and dignity.”According to historians, up to 200,000 women, mostly Koreans, were coerced into sexual servitude in front-line Japanese brothels during the war, when the Korean Peninsula was a Japanese colony. Those sex slaves wer…

Sydney, Aug 14 (IANS) Almost half of Australian internet users were the victim of a cybercrime in the last 12 months, a government report published on Thursday said.The report, which was compiled by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) based on surveys of over 10,000 internet users, found that 47.4 per cent of respondents said they had been a victim of a cybercrime in the preceding 12 months.Almost two-thirds of respondents, 63.9 per cent, said they had been a victim of at least one cyb…

Moscow, Aug 14 (IANS) The eruption of Klyuchevskoy Volcano, located in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, has ended, leaving behind a new scoria cone in its crater, said the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences on its Telegram channel.Klyuchevskoy, standing at 4,754 meters above sea level and situated around 30 km from the village of Klyuchi, is one of Eurasia’s most active volcanoes. The eruption, which began on July 30, followed a stro…

London, Aug 14 (IANS) United Kingdom Labour Party MP Tulip Siddiq has denounced the ongoing corruption trial against her in Bangladesh as a ‘farce’, alleging that it is based on “fabricated accusations” and fueled by a “political vendetta” of the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government.The remarks came after a trial began in the Dhaka Court on Wednesday, charging Tulip, her aunt, former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her mother, Sheikh Rehana, her brother, Radwan Mujib Siddiq Bobby, and …

Washington, Aug 14 (IANS) Tara Chand, chief of Baloch American Congress, on Thursday stated that instead of banning the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), US President Donald Trump should have slapped severe sanctions on the Pakistani Army, which he described as the world’s number one terrorist army.The remarks came after the US recently designated the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and its front organisation, The Majeed Brigade (TMB), as foreign terrorist organisations (FTO).Taking to X, Chand po…

Seoul, Aug 14 (IANS) South Korea will consistently pursue the normalisation of ties with North Korea, the unification ministry said on Thursday, responding to Pyongyang’s statement rejecting Seoul’s conciliatory overtures. “The government will consistently pursue normalisation and stabilisation of ties between South and North Korea in a way that can become mutually beneficial,” an official at the unification ministry said.The reaction came just hours after Kim Yo-jong, the influential sister of …