West Bank: The Israeli army said on Thursday it had arrested dozens of Palestinian students in the occupied West Bank that it accused of being “terror operatives” of Islamist group Hamas. Palestinian sources told AFP that dozens of students from Birzeit University were arrested as they

New Delhi: India’s Supreme Court has questioned the government over its decision to allow a key Hindu pilgrimage even as experts warn that a third COVID-19 wave was inevitable in the country. The judges sought answers from Uttar Pradesh state and the federal government over the

Lahore: Mashal Malik, wife of Kashmiri Hurriyat leader Muhammad Yasin Malik, has said that India is conspiring to demolish 500 mosques in occupied Kashmir. The wife of jailed Kashmiri Hurriyat leader Muhammad Yasin Malik, while addressing a seminar on the occasion of Kashmir Martyrs’ Day organized

New Delhi:  The workers of Hindu extremist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) will soon be hi-tech to propagate its hate ideology more robustly even in remote areas of the country. The RSS is working to establish its own IT cell, similar to the BJP’s. Every volunteer

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi welcomed the Supreme Court's observation about the sedition law and asking the Modi government whether it was still needed 75 years after Independence. Concerned over the "enormous misuse" of the colonial-era penal law, a Supreme Court bench headed by Chief

New Delhi: BJP-led Modi’s government made the most requests to Twitter seeking information about accounts, the social media company’s transparency report for July 2020 to December 2020 said on Thursday. Twitter said that it was the first time since it started publishing the report in 2012

New York: Nearly 10% of everyone on Earth – an estimated 768 million of us – were undernourished in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted economies, job markets and supply chains and inflated food prices. According to the latest edition of an annual food security

Berlin: Belarusian authorities carried out a day of massive, unprecedented raids and detentions against the Belarus human rights community on July 14, 2021, Human Rights Watch said today. Police in at least 10 cities searched homes and offices of the country’s major human rights organizations and

Mali: U.N. reports that 13 U.N. soldiers have been wounded during their peacekeeping mission in Mali. Of the 13 soldiers, 12 of them were from Germany and one from Belgium. The attack happened in the Gao region in the north of Mali. The United Nations mission