Month: June 2020

Amid the ongoing tensions between the Indian and Chinese Army, on Monday night twenty soldiers have been killed, ANI Reported. During the process of de-escalation underway in the Galwan Valley near the Line of Actual control in Ladkah, a violent face-off took place yesterday night with three casualties reported earlier, with 34 soldiers missing. Now the number of casualties being reported is 20, however it is being said that the number of casualties many rise. Earlier on the Indian Side, three soldiers including a senior Military official of colonel rank were killed, however, there are no reports from the Chinese side regarding the incident. It is pertinent to mention here that currently talks are under way between Senior military officials from both the sides to defuse the sit...

After the reports of three soldiers being killed, in a face-off between Indian and Chinese soldiers in Galwan valley, the reports say that thirty-four Indian soldiers are also missing – believed to either be dead or captured. The report by Telegraph quoted the Army as saying, the soldiers have been missing since the “violent face-off” an Indian officer and two army men were killed. The Government has said nothing in this regard. The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said, “India troops crossed the border line twice on Monday provoking and attacking Chinese personnel resulting in serious physical confrontation between border forces on the two sides.” “Indian troops on Monday seriously violated the consensus of the two sides by illegally crossing the border twice a...

Vaccine design is still an empirical, trial and error process and a preventive against COVID-19 could be at least a year away, say scientists as information on developments in therapeutics to combat the infection flows in a steady trickle from across the world. While quelling the buzz of a quick breakthrough, the scientists also hold out hope that the process might be cut short by a few months if testing approvals and scale-ups in manufacturing happen simultaneously. According to the World Health Organisation, 10 candidate vaccines for COVID-19 are in the clinical evaluation and 126 are in the preclinical stage. Preclinical development is a stage of research during which important feasibility, iterative testing and drug safety data are collected, while clinical trials are research...

Amid the ongoing tensions between the Indian and Chinese Army, on Monday night three soldiers have been killed, ANI Reported. During the process of de-escalation underway in the Galwan Valley near the Line of Actual control in Ladkah, a violent face-off took place yesterday night with three casualties. On Indian Side, three soldiers including a senior Military official of colonel rank were killed, however, there are no reports from the Chinese side regarding the incident. It is pertinent to mention here that currently talks are under way between Senior military officials from both the sides to defuse the situation.

The Secretary-General of United Nations, Antonio Guterres has serious expressed concern over the child casualties in Kashmir, the report released on Monday said. "The UN has verified the killing of eight children in Kashmir." Guterres said in the report that the casualties in Kashmir occurred mainly due to “torture in detention, shootings, including from pellet guns, and cross-border shelling, The report also spoke of attacks on nine schools by “unidentified elements". Guterres said that he was concerned about the detention of 68 children between the ages of nine and 17 on national security-related charges with one of them held for allegedly associating with “armed groups”. He asked the government to take preventive measures to protect children and to ban the use of pellet guns again...

On Monday, Pakistan raised the issue of Kashmir in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), while as India lambasted it and expressed serious concern over its audacity. In the 43rd session of the UNHRC, Senthil Kumar, the first secretary of India's Permanent Mission, accused Islamabad of misusing the rights forum when Pakistan raised the issue of Kashmir. He asked the neighboring country to introspect its serious human rights conditions before giving unwanted advice to anyone. Drawing the attention of the Council on the crimes against humanity in Pakistan, India said that the way Pakistan is discriminating against minorities in its planned and institutionalized form of blasphemy is a matter to be seen. Not only this, the way the minorities have been intimidated has been...