Tag: Blacklist

New Delhi: Kendrapara MP Baijayant Panda on Wednesday appealed to the Centre to blacklist fraudulent employment agencies operating in the country, which lure unemployed youths with job offers abroad. “Can they (Centre and States) implement some system of blacklisting agencies which may be from State,? There is a system of emigration approval for blue-collar workers, […]

United Nations: The UN Security Council on Friday agreed to put more individuals and entities of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) under its sanction list in response to the country’s repeated ballistic launches. In a unanimously adopted resolution, the 15-nation council decided to impose travel bans and asset freezes on 14 individuals and […]

Beijing: In a huge diplomatic victory for India, the UN Security Council on Wednesday declared Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist, a move that was being blocked by China for nearly 10 years. The decision of the UNSC’s 1267 Sanctions Committee came about two and a half months after the JeM […]

San Francisco: Twitter has joined efforts to do away with racially loaded terms such as master, slave and blacklist from its coding language in the wake of the death of African-American George Floyd and ensuing Black Lives Matter protests. The project started even before the current movement for racial justice escalated following the death of […]