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Topic: Geneva

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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Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.