ED initiated money laundering investigation on the basis of FIR of December 28, 2020 registered by CBI, ACB, Chennai, under various sections of Prevention of Corruption Act.
As the nation prepares for its second winter under Taliban rule, more Afghans will be fighting for survival as living circumstances worsen in the coming year, a top official of the International Committee of the Red Cross warned in an interview. When the religious organization took control in August 2021, the economy collapsed and Afghanistan underwent a major transformation that left millions of people in poverty and starving to death as foreign help abruptly ceased. “The economic hardship is there. It’s very serious and people will struggle for their lives,” Martin Schuepp, director of operations at the Red Cross, said in an interview late Sunday. Access to international institutions and the foreign funds that financed Afghanistan’s aid-dependent economy prior to the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces have already been hampered by sanctions against the Taliban leadership, a ban on bank transfers, and the freezing of billions in the country’s currency reserves. The Red Cross pays the salary of 10,500 medical personnel in the Afghanistan “Prices are spiking due to […]
A family in Afghanistan attempted to sell their child due to extreme poverty, Tolo news reported on Saturday. The two-year-old child was saved from getting sold after some locals in the province assisted the family.
New Delhi [India], September 22 (ANI): Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Chemicals and Fertilizers Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated the States/UTs Leadership Meeting of the Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS) on Thursday.
Beijing [China], September 6 (ANI): The strong 6.8 magnitude earthquake that hit the Sichuan province in China on Monday has so far claimed 65 lives while leaving 248 people injured and 12 missing, local media reported on Tuesday.
Bangalore (Karnataka) [India], August 29 (ANI/PRNewswire): Thousands of Indians in Bangalore, Mumbai, Lucknow, Jaipur and Ladakh took part in #GlobalBloodHeroes Day to save the lives of over one lakh people and break a world blood donation record.
Geneva [Switzerland], August 1 (ANI): The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Sunday said that it is ready to deploy specialists to the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) town of Olenivka in the Donbas region where 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed after the Ukrainian military attacked a pre-trial detention centre with HIMARS rocket systems on Friday.
Paris [France], July 4 (ANI/Xinhua): French President Emmanuel Macron reshuffled his government on Monday for the second time in six weeks, the Elysee (office of the president) announced.
London [UK], June 26 (ANI): UK is providing 2.5 million euros aid for immediate life-saving support to people in Afghanistan affected by the devastating earthquake this week, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announced.
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