‘You don’t belong in this country’: Police kick, use racist slurs against Muslim women in Netherlands

A video circulating on social media shows two Muslim women being kicked and hit by a police officer in the Netherlands’ Utrecht. According to the Dutch News, the women later made a formal complaint about their treatment, their lawyer told the television current affairs programme Nieuwsuur on Wednesday evening.Footage circulating on social media showed one […]

Is your manager’s response to emergencies like this? Indian employee in Netherlands shares viral video on Dutch workplace empathy

“Family Comes First”: Indian Employee’s Emergency Leave Experience in Netherlands Leaves Internet Shocked Asking for emergency leave is what many professionals dread but it turned into a heartening moment for Indian expatriate Ashwini Thamke, who works in the Netherlands. When Thamke had to book a last-minute ticket to India due to a family medical emergency, […]

Biocon Rises After Launching GLP-1 Peptide Liraglutide in the Netherlands | Udaipur Kiran

Mumbai, 16 December (Udaipur Kiran) — Shares of Biocon moved higher on Monday after the company announced the launch of its GLP-1 peptide, Liraglutide, in the Netherlands for diabetes and obesity management. The stock was trading at Rs. 391.30, up 1.20% from its previous close of Rs. 386.65. It opened at Rs. 387.45 and touched […]

Who is Rob Jetten? Centrist leader who could become Netherlands’ youngest and first openly gay prime minister

Rob Jetten is on the brink of making history. At just 38, the centrist leader of Democrats’ 66 (D66) is set to become the Netherlands’ youngest and first openly gay prime minister after steering his party from fifth place to the top of Dutch politics in less than two years. His rise has been described […]

Hundreds of thousands march in Turkiye, Spain, the Netherlands for Gaza

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators rally during a protest in Madrid, Spain, calling for an end to the war in Gaza. (Picture credit: AP) Hundreds of thousands of people across several European cities marched Sunday in support of Palestinians. Istanbul held the largest of multiple demonstrations being staged in Turkiye. In the Turkish capital Ankara, protesters held up […]

Netherlands celebrates King’s Day in style with flares, boats and parties

Across the Netherlands, people wore bright orange clothes, from tuxedos to feather boas, to celebrate King Willem-Alexander’s birthday. In Amsterdam, the canals were packed with boats full of cheering crowds enjoying the national party. (Photo: AP) Source link

Amsterdam’s Mayor Apologizes for City’s Role in the Holocaust

Eighty years since the end of World War II, Mayor Femke Halsema of Amsterdam apologized on Thursday for the city’s role in the persecution of its Jewish residents during the Holocaust, in a rare acknowledgment of a collective moral failure by a city leader. “Amsterdam’s’ government was, when it mattered, not heroic, not determined and […]