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Police use tear gas, water canons on Gaza protest in Geneva after Israel intercepts aid ships

An eyewitness described a burning sensation in their eyes and difficult breathing, saying, 'We were retreating and suddenly got heavily gassed.'

‘Rules of war shredded, no accountability’, says UN human rights chief at 60th session in Geneva

While opening the Human Rights Council, Volker Turk said there was increase in glorification of violence. He condemned various armed conflicts worldwide.

Plastic pollution negotiations fail, no consensus reached in 1st legally binding treaty

Despite going into overtime, delegates were unable to reach a decision over the extent of future curbs to tackle plastic pollution globally.

From 2015 to 2024, India recorded 3.2 cr disaster displacements, says report by Geneva-based non-profit

Bangladesh, China, India, the Philippines, and the US recorded the highest displacements, according to the report published by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.

ASEAN Secretary-General holds talks with business leaders, policymakers in Geneva

Dr Kao Kim Hourn also met Jared Cohen, President of Global Affairs at Goldman Sachs, the ASEAN Secretariat said in a statement.

Swiss court hands 4 members of billionaire Hinduja family jail terms for exploiting domestic staff

Hinduja Group Europe chairman Prakash Hinduja, wife Kamal, son Ajay & daughter-in-law Namrata convicted for worker exploitation, illegal employment. Human trafficking charges dismissed.

Cholera cases surge with outbreak in 26 countries, fatality rates rising sharply, says WHO

Average fatality rate this year has almost tripled compared with the five-year average, a WHO official said. A cholera outbreak in Syria alone has already killed at least 33 people.

I felt very strongly that Rajiv Gandhi was not corrupt: B. Raman on the Bofors scandal

In his memoir, B. Raman writes about his impressions of Rajiv Gandhi, and why the Bofors scandal turned into such a messy affair. 

How an IIT grad saved the life of a diabetic on a Moscow-New Delhi flight

Thomas already had some cartridges of short-term fast-working insulin, all he needed was a method to inject them. But he didn’t have one handy.

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Why Tejashwi Yadav failed—Bihar changed, RJD didn’t

RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.

As govt starts rolling back Quality Control Orders, a look at adverse impact they had, mainly on MSMEs

Between 2016 and 2025, around 700 QCOs were issued by the government. Now, it has withdrawn 69 of them.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.