Years of American-led investment into AIDS programs has reduced the number of people killed by the disease to the lowest levels seen in more than three decades, and provided life-saving medicines for some of the world’s most vulnerable.

In a landmark move to uphold human dignity, the Assam cabinet led by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today decided to crack down on the disturbing practice by some private hospitals and nursing homes of keeping bodies of patients for days.

The US president’s threatened new tariffs on Brazil are likely to have major political ramifications in the country. 

​The US president’s threatened new tariffs on Brazil are likely to have major political ramifications in the country.