New Delhi: An Indian state has raised its COVID-19 death toll sharply higher after the discovery of thousands of unreported cases, lending weight to suspicion that India’s overall death tally is significantly more than the official figure. Indian hospitals ran out of beds and life-saving oxygen
Gorakhpur: Javaid Akhter, 71, has lived all his life in his 100-year-old ancestral house built by his grandfather. The house is located just a few metres away from a famous Hindu temple in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state. Akhter, a retired engineer with the Indian railways,
New Delhi: In early March, India's health minister Harsh Vardhan declared the country was "in the endgame" of the Covid-19 pandemic. Mr Vardhan also lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership as an "example to the world in international co-operation". From January onwards, India had begun shipping
Beijing: India’s unilateral change of the status quo in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) on August 5, 2019 was the root cause of tension between India and Pakistan, Cheng Xizhong, visiting professor at Southwest University of Political Science and Law and former Defense
Srinagar: By parroting the Indian state’s narrative on the disputed territory, the rights organisation puts itself at odds with international law and misses the pattern of deliberate demographic change - or ethnic cleansing - against Kashmiri Muslims. “We are moving towards a human rights apocalypse in
Srinagar: With J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha meeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and more paramilitary troops being rushed to Kashmir, speculation has been rife that the Centre is about to make some major decisions on Jammu and Kashmir. This has prompted Jammu-based parties to come
Srinagar: The tall claims by Narendra Modi-led Indian government of providing economic stability to Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) have dashed to the ground as the employment rate in the territory has plummeted since the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019. This was
India claims to be a responsible nuclear weapon state, yet it faces recurring instances of uranium thefts. Such repeated nuclear incidents undermine global peace and security. Indian security agencies, on 3 June 2021, arrested seven people and seized 6.4 kilograms of uranium from their possession, making
New Delhi, India – When Dr Swaiman Singh, a cardiologist based in the United States, flew to India for a five-day visit last December, little did he know that his short sojourn would turn into a prolonged mission to save hundreds of lives. The 34-year-old doctor, who
Rizwan-ud-din, a 37-year-old who delivers food in the southern Indian city of Chennai, struggles to pay his rent and loan instalments every month as he has been hit by higher fuel prices and fewer food orders. Millions of weekly wage-earners like Rizwan, who make their living