July2016

News Hour: Islamist rebels and jihadists in Syria are guilty of war crimes, Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday, accusing them of “a chilling wave of abductions, torture and summary killings”, reports BSS. The...

News Hour: Israel has approved hundreds of new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, an official said on Monday, in a move denounced by UN chief Ban Ki-moon and likely to further raise tensions following...

News Hour: Haitian senate candidate Guy Philippe was the mastermind behind an attack on a police station that left one officer dead and two injured, police announced on Monday, reports BSS. “This attack was planned during...

News Hour: A barrage of rockets targeted a camp housing members of an Iranian opposition group near Baghdad on Monday, injuring several people, an Iraqi security spokesman and the exiles said, reports BSS. The People’s Mujahedeen...

News Hour: Venus Williams vanquished Yaroslava Shvedova 7-6(5) 6-2 in a brutal baseline shootout at Wimbledon on Tuesday to reach her first grand slam semi-final for six years. In a scrappy match, the five-times champion –...

News Hour: A convoy of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Government and UN partners reached Pilikambi Rural Local Level Government (LLG) last week to monitor food distributions to communities affected by El-Nino-related drought and...

News Hour: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today it will extend its emergency operation in eastern Ukraine to provide more than 280,000 conflict-affected people in the region with food assistance until the end...

News Hour: The prestigious World Food Prize has this year been awarded to 4 scientists from the DFID-funded international agriculture research organisation, the CGIAR. Maria Andrade, Robert Mwanga and Jan Low from the International Potato Center...

News Hour: Ashutosh Gowariker and UTV Motion Pictures Productions Present Mohenjo Daro story of an ancient love and our past, present and future, starring Hrithik Roshan and Pooja Hegde The film is directed by Ashutosh Gowariker...

News Hour: The bipartisan Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2015 (H.R. 3766) is one step closer to becoming law after the Senate unanimously approved passage late Tuesday night. Save the Children thanks bill sponsors...