West Bengal: Taking a dig at his former party Trinamool Congress (TMC), BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari said that West Bengal would into another Kashmir if the Mamata Banerjee-led party were to come back to power in the state. Adhikari, BJP’s Nandigram candidate for the upcoming assembly
United Nations: Pakistan has raised the issue of fake COVID-19 vaccines at a UN forum and urged the international community to work together to prevent the production and distribution of such products by criminal elements. Pakistan’s UN envoy Munir Akram, joined top Japanese leaders and UN
Islamabad: The miseries and victimization of the Kashmiri women at the hands of Indian troops, police and agencies continue unabated in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir as world is celebrating International Women Day. According to a report, released on the occasion of the global women
Dhaka: For the first time in the history of the country, four female judges from Bangladesh are going to join the UN Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan and Somalia. Of the four, Munshiganj Joint District and Sessions Judge Afsana Abedin, Tangail Senior Judicial Magistrate Nowrin Mahbuba,
Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary groups have told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson they are temporarily withdrawing support for the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement due to concerns over the United Kingdom’s Brexit deal with the European Union. While the groups pledged “peaceful and democratic” opposition to
Najaf: One of the highest authorities for the world's Shia Muslims, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani told Pope Francis that Iraqi Christians should live in "peace". The meeting, on the second day of the first-ever papal visit to Iraq, marked a landmark moment in modern religious history. Pope
New Delhi: India’s government has threatened to jail employees of Facebook Inc., its WhatsApp unit and Twitter Inc. as it seeks to quash political protests and gain far-reaching powers over discourse on foreign-owned tech platforms, people familiar with the warnings say. The warnings are in direct
New Delhi: The Indian formers protesting on the borders of New Delhi are marking ‘Black Day’ today – the 100th day of their protest. The Samyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella organisationof various farmer bodies, has given a call to block highways and to free the toll
Yangon: Anti-coup demonstrators returned to the streets of Myanmar Saturday, a day after a United Nations envoy urged the Security Council to hear the nation’s "desperate pleas" and take swift action to restore democracy. The country has been in turmoil since a February 1 putsch ousted
Vienna: Members of Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allied countries on Thursday decided to retain oil production cuts, amid concerns about continuing economic weakness due to the spread of the coronavirus, AP reported. In a Saudi Arabia-led OPEC meeting, along with non-members like