CJ Werleman From the moment Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi swept to power in 2014 on the back of a muscular and threatening Hindu nationalist agenda, human rights activists have been sounding the alarm bell for imminent Muslim genocide in India and Kashmir. The Bharatiya Janata Party

Dubai: Against a backdrop of the overlapping environmental, political and economic challenges confronting humanity, young delegates will meet next month during the World Food Forum to explore sustainable solutions to the problems facing agriculture and food systems. The organizers describe the five-day forum, which will run

Addis Abbaba: Ethiopia said it would expel seven senior UN officials for “meddling” in its affairs, ratcheting up worries over the humanitarian response in the war-torn and famine-threatened Tigray region. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was “shocked” by the decision, expressed full confidence in his

Geneva: Russian and US diplomats held talks behind closed doors in Geneva, the latest round of discussions between the world’s top two nuclear powers following a June summit between US President Joe Biden and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. US State Department number two Wendy Sherman and

London: A serving London police officer was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Thursday for the kidnapping, rape and murder of a woman he tricked into his car using his police identification and COVID-19 laws. Wayne Couzens, 48, was accused of falsely

Kabul: Afghanistan’s health system is on the verge of collapse, a top Red Cross official warned on Thursday, saying more than 2,000 health facilities had been shuttered across the conflict-ravaged country. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned that a dire

Haryana: Police in Haryana’s Jhajjar district on Friday used water cannons to disperse farmers who were marching towards a venue where Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala was attending an event, NDTV reported. The farmers, protesting against the three contentious agriculture laws, showed black flags to Chautala

New Delhi: India recorded 26,727 new Covid-19 cases on Friday morning, taking the total number of infections in the country since the outbreak of the pandemic in January last year to 3,37,66,707. The tally on Friday was 13.59% higher than Thursday’s count of 23,529 cases. The

Dhalpur: Soon after the Friday prayers on the platform of a razed mosque, Ainuddin struggled to recount the sequence of events of the previous day when his elder brother Mainal Haq was allegedly shot dead by the police in Darrang district of the northeastern Indian

New Delhi:  The Arab World has also taken notice of the alleged atrocities being perpetuated by Hindutva radical elements on Muslims, Christians and weaker sections in the country.  Members of the Kuwait Parliament urged the international, humanitarian, human rights and Islamic organizations to immediately work