Gaza, May 5 (IANS) Humanitarians are warning of the lack of prosthetic and rehabilitation care in Gaza for amputees, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said. The OCHA on Monday (local time) said its partners reported that more than 6,600 amputees, one in five a child, need prosthetic and rehabilitation care, including thousands newly amputated since October 2023. Yet only eight prosthetic technicians are available to respond.”With severe shortages of specialist…
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Tel Aviv, March 31 (IANS) Israel’s parliament has passed a controversial law making death by hanging the default punishment for Palestinians convicted in military courts of carrying out deadly attacks, fulfilling a key demand of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right allies. The legislation, passed on Monday (local time), has drawn sharp international criticism, with opponents describing it as discriminatory and unconstitutional. Critics argue that the law creates a differential legal fra…
Srinagar, March 6 (IANS) Senior religious leader and chief cleric of Kashmir, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, said on Friday that authorities have placed him under house arrest as restrictions continued across the Valley.Mirwaiz Umar said on X, “Restrictions in the valley continue and have been heightened on a Friday in the holy month of Ramzan. I have also been placed under house arrest, and in these greatly blessed days, when thousands come to the mosques seeking blessings and guidance the pulpit of Ja…
Hyderabad, March 1 (IANS) AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday termed the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei as an immoral and unlawful act.The Hyderabad MP, on behalf of his party, offered condolences to the Shia community, who consider Khamenei as their leader.He condemned the attacks on Iran by the United States and Israel. The attacks are absolutely condemnable, especially when Iran-US talks were going on in Geneva,” he said.”(US President Donald) Trump and (Isra…
Helsinki, Feb 20 (IANS) Norway will not join US President Donald Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace,” the country’s foreign ministry said.Speaking at the inaugural meeting of the “Board of Peace” at the US Institute of Peace, Trump said the United States would contribute $10 billion to the initiative and claimed that Norway would host a board event, Xinhua news agency reported.Ane Jorem, a spokesperson for Norway’s foreign ministry, rejected the claim and reiterated that Norway would not become a…
Sydney, Feb 9 (IANS) Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrived in Sydney Monday morning to begin a four-day visit to Australia that is intended to show support for the Jewish community following a terror attack at Bondi Beach last December, but has also sparked controversy due to Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians.Herzog said in a statement that he would visit Jewish communities across Australia to “express solidarity and offer strength to the community in the aftermath of the attack,” Xinhu…
Bengaluru, Jan 30 (IANS) The legislators of the Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have welcomed the decision to ban the screening of Palestinian films at the 17th Bengaluru International Film Festival (BIFFES) and urged Left-leaning groups opposing the move to highlight the brutalities against Hindus in Bangladesh and Pakistan.Speaking to the media on Friday, BJP MLA Mahesh Tenginakayi said the decision on which films are screened rests with the concerned department. “To those opposing th…