Military flees Bolivia government palace after coup attempt fails, general taken into custodyArmored vehicles stormed Bolivia's government palace in an attempted coup, but President Luis Arce stood firm, naming a new army commander ...
27 Jun, 2024, 05.35 PM IST
View: India can’t lead the Global South and not feed itIndia's decision to ban the export of many varieties of rice has led to fears that food inflation will rise and that countries in the Globa...
27 Jul, 2023, 07.02 AM IST
France riots: Will government impose emergency? Here's what you should know if you are travelling to the countryOver 1,300 people were arrested during a fourth night of riots in France following the police shooting of Nahel M. President Macron postpon...
02 Jul, 2023, 07.02 AM IST
COVID protests escalate in Guangzhou as China lockdown anger boilsThe clashes, which follow protests in Shanghai, Beijing and elsewhere, erupted as China posts record numbers of COVID cases daily and healt...
30 Nov, 2022, 12.39 PM IST
All that’s stopping a full-blown food crisis? RiceRice matters because it’s the staple diet for half the world’s population, including about a billion undernourished people living in Asia a...
25 Mar, 2022, 07.13 AM IST
US violence: Rioters fired, face company boycotts after storming CapitolMore than 90 people have been arrested since Wednesday when loyalists to outgoing President Donald Trump disrupted lawmakers as they met to...
09 Jan, 2021, 10.12 AM IST
Kirana warriors: On the frontline of battle against Covid-19, but unsung and unrecognisedLike in most places in the country, the kirana stores of Mumbai made sure their customers were well-stocked through the lockdown, when the ...
22 Nov, 2020, 05.24 PM IST
Virus lockdown raises tensions in France's poorest areasProviding food aid might be the most fixable of the longstanding problems in the heavily immigrant housing projects ringing France's large ...
26 Apr, 2020, 02.52 PM IST
View: The morbid dance of coronavirus is holding up a mirror to who we really areThe coronavirus disregards well-established human boundaries of wealth and social class.
15 Mar, 2020, 06.22 AM IST
Paris turned into battle zone as "Yellow Vest" protests escalateIn Paris, police said they had arrested almost 300 people while almost 100 were injured as protesters hurled projectiles at riot officers, ...
02 Dec, 2018, 10.26 AM IST
Venezuela launches history's greatest forex devaluationThe official rate for the currency will go from about 285,000 per dollar to 6 million.
20 Aug, 2018, 08.53 PM IST
Eight eye-popping gadgets launched at CES 2016A roundup of mind-bending devices at the recently concluded electronics trade show held in Las Vegas.
11 Jan, 2016, 12.47 PM IST
Section 144 and the power to impose an online curfewThe Patel community's demand for job quotas dramatically caught the nation's attention. Their agitation in Gujarat reminded of the dangers ...
19 Sep, 2015, 10.58 AM IST
- Chew this on: US wastes half its food
Americans waste an astounding 27% of the food available for consumption about a pound of food every day for every American. Go nutty for go...
20 May, 2008, 09.40 PM IST
- Grain pain: Rationing in US as rice gets pricey
Some outlets have begun rationing rice, the price of wheat flour has gone through the roof, there's no butter on store shelves, and gas at ...
25 Apr, 2008, 09.33 AM IST
- Internet proves powerful tool for Chinese protests
It may be decades before China gets democracy, but for many Chinese, political participation of sorts is only a mouse click away.
23 Apr, 2008, 09.44 AM IST
- Chinese take to streets to oppose Tibet independence
Chinese people in several cities took to the streets on Saturday to denounce Tibetan independence and call for a boycott of French goods fo...
19 Apr, 2008, 01.51 PM IST