New Delhi: Renowned Indian author, Arundhati Roy, has urged the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, to step aside as he is not capable of steering the country out of the situation caused by the coronavirus. Arundhati Roy in an appeal to Narendra Modi said hundreds of
Yangon: Myanmar's junta-controlled media announced a ban on satellite television receivers, saying outside broadcasts threatened national security and threatening to jail anyone caught violating the measure. With mobile internet access largely cut off in a bid to quell anti-junta protests since the Feb. 1 coup, Myanmar
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena said the West Bengal election results have proved that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah are not invincible. An editorial in the Sena mouthpiece ''Saamana'' said out of four states (West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Kerala) and
New York: United Nations General Assembly President, Volkan Bozkir, while reiterating that the position of the United Nations on Jammu and Kashmir is governed by the UN Charter and applicable Security Council resolutions has stressed that the status of Jammu and Kashmir should not be
New Delhi: As India battles one of the worst humanitarian crises of the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s leaders are facing increased scrutiny and criticism over their handling of the second wave. India's official count of coronavirus cases surpassed 20 million on Tuesday, nearly doubling in the
Muzaffarabad: The journalist community across Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) marked the World Press Freedom Day on Monday with serious concern over the increased incidents of victimization of journalists in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu Kashmir by the Indian occupational forces with sinister motives to gag the
Geneva: Somalia’s human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the third time on Thursday, 6 May 2021 in a meeting that will be webcast live. Somalia is one of the 14 States to be
New York: The International Press Institute, an international organisation that protects journalism against censorship, warns that dictatorial-minded governments are stepping up their efforts to suppress free media. According to the annual report of the institute, which was released on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day
London: Iran is expected to be a key topic in talks between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his host in London, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab. The two envoys donned face masks and fist-pumped before heading into the talks, a day ahead of the
