Nepal is moving one step closer to ending political deadlock in the country. On Thursday evening, the country’s Cabinet all resigned to make way for a national unity government by Sunday in the hopes that political parties can finalize a new constitution by the May 27 deadline. The top leaders of three major political parties [...]
CAIRO: Speculations discussing Ayman Nour’s political future has been clarified, as the lately disqualified presidential candidate have decided to join a “presidential coalition”. It was reported that a presidential coalition formed of one president and two vice presidents is likely to be formed soon. Reports predicted that Dr.Ayman Nour, Hamdeen Sabahi, along with Dr.Abdul Moneim [...]
LAGOS: The President of the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), Titi Omo-Ettu has threatened that Nigerian telecommunication operators will drag the Federal Government to court. He said that it will be taken to court by December 2013 if it fails in its promise to improve public power supply. The operators complained that the [...]
NEW DELHI: In a major health sector initiative, India will launch the Rashtriya Swasthya Vikas Yojna, a nationwide healthcare program that the government hopes will help the country improve its health parameters. The program replaces the National Rural Health Mission, which has served the country for the last five years. The Yojna is part of [...]
NEW DELHI: India, the world’s largest consumer of gold has been hit by a massive strike by gold and jewellery dealers across India who are protesting against a new tax and duty regime imposed on the yellow metal in the annual union budget presented earlier this month. The strike which has been called by one [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Free Egyptians liberal political party issued a statement on Monday warning the government of serious repercussions from the shortage of basic commodities and the rise in prices across the country. The party said that the shortages “have become a huge burden on the shoulders of the Egyptian family, especially the poor and low-income [...]
MUMBAI: India has called on its airlines to boycott new European Union carbon restrictions, joining China in the action against Europe’s new environmental regulations. Senior Indian government sources were reported to have said the country would not abide by the scheme, which could see diplomatic tension between India and the EU increase. “Though the European [...]
MUMBAI: Gay sex is not a crime in India, the country’s High Court ruled this week, and the government has said it supports the ruling, in a sign that LGBT rights in the country could be on the rise. On Thursday, the India government said in a statement that it is in favor of the [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), which holds 40 percent of Parliamentary seats, called on the parliamentary majority of both the People`s Assembly and the Shura Council, to form a coalition government to “bear the responsibility of state affairs, which could be held accountable by the parliament and play [...]
LAGOS: Nigeria’s Islamist militant faction Boko Haram has ended peace talks with the central government on Wednesday, arguing that the government “was not” sincere in its efforts. The move comes just days after the chief of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria, Ibrahim Datti Ahmad – who was trying to bridge the gap between [...]
SANA’A: Newly-elected President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi revealed that he was under great pressure from former strongman and veteran politician President Ali Abdullah Saleh as the latter is threatening to recall his loyalists from the coalition government as members of the opposition continue to challenge his authority. Although President Saleh renounced the presidency by signing [...]
LAGOS: The Nigerian government has given little in terms of negotiating with the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, a spokesman for the group told Bikyamasr.com on Sunday. He said that the government’s indirect talks with the group “were going nowhere” and blamed the federal government for its inaction. “They know our demands and what we [...]
DELHI: An India government report on the “State of Indian agriculture” has called for increased public sector investment in research and effective transfer of technology along with institutional reforms in research set-up to make it more accountable and geared towards delivery. Conservation of land, water and biological resources, development of rainfed agriculture, development of minor [...]
MUMBAI: With celebrations of International Women’s Day on Thursday, the plight of women was back in headlines in India, as many women’s groups demonstrated for a greater role in politics in the country. Data on governments was released with the Women’s Day celebrations globally, and India did not fare well in the latest rankings, lagging [...]
CAIRO: Christians in Egypt are no strangers to sectarian violence, and even after the hopeful solidarity shown in the first waves of the January 25 Revolution, the past year has nonetheless witnessed a number of attacks on churches from the districts of Imbaba in Cairo to Aswan in the south. The governing Supreme Council of [...]
DUBAI: As Kuwait’s newly elected parliament takes its positions, one thing is missing: women. Despite having four seats in the previous legislative body, the most recent round of voting saw no women elected to parliament, leaving many to question the future role of women in the country’s political landscape. At a Women’s Cultural Society symposium [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Islamist parties have won more than 80 percent of seats in the largely ceremonial Upper House of Parliament, the country’s election board said on Sunday. The influential Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) garnered 105 of the 180 seats in the Shura Council that were up for election after gaining 58.3 percent [...]
Tehran (dpa) – Iran is obliging female civil servants to wear uniforms at work, ISNA news agency reported Wednesday. Azar Nazari, the head of women’s affairs of the Tehran governor’s office said that women would be obliged to wear uniforms from the start of the new Persian year, on March 21. Nazari told ISNA that [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, demanded on Monday the formation of a national consensus government, criticizing the performance of the current government of the Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri, and said it failed to address the economic and worsening security crises. The FJP, which holds more than [...]
CAIRO: A number of Egyptian human rights organizations expressed their regret and condemned the continued “smear and defamation campaign” by the Egyptian government against civil society organizations. A group of 29 organizations issued a joint statement this week, decrying the prosecution of 43 Egyptian and American workers to criminal court, accusing the government of “acting [...]
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