London: Britain's House of Commons on Wednesday expressed alarm at human rights violations, including fake encounters by Indian forces, in Indian-occupied Kashmir and sought a response from the Indian High Commission over the maltreatment of Kashmiri citizens. As many as 28 MPs of the British Parliament
Be it an incident of plane hijacking, attacks on the Indian parliament, Mumbai or Pulwama or Uri, India always used falsehood as statecraft to malign Pakistan, make political gains and above all divert focus from economic meltdown, insurgencies and religious bigotry at home. The Indian establishment
New Delhi: The top one per cent of the population in India owns more than one-fifth of the total national income in 2021 while the bottom half earns just 13.1 per cent, said the World Inequality Report. The economic reforms and liberalization adopted by India
Madhya Pradesh: Ramesh Vasunia, a pastor from Padalva village in Madhya Pradesh’s Jhabua district, has been in jail since December 5, charged with attempting forced religious conversions. His wife and four others have also been arrested on the same charges. The arrests were ostensibly based on
Vatican City: In his annual message for the Catholic Church’s World Day of Peace, Pope Francis is calling on all men and women of goodwill, on government leaders, and on decision-makers to walk together with courage and creativity on the path of intergenerational dialogue, education
Vatican City: Pope Francis has said that men who commit violence against women engage in something that is “almost satanic”. He made the comment – some of the strongest language he has used to condemn such violence – during a programme broadcast on Italy’s TG5 network
New York: China, with Russia's backing, has opposed a resolution proposed by the United States in the UN Security Council that would have provided a system for humanitarian exceptions to economic sanctions imposed on Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. "They want the deletion" of a paragraph of the resolution
London: A major New year celebration in London will be cancelled, the British capital's mayor said on Monday, as worries mount over a surge in virus cases sparked by the Omicron variant. Sadiq Khan said infections were at record levels in the city and he needed
Rawalpindi: Pakistan on Tuesday conducted a successful test flight of an enhanced range version of the "indigenously developed" Babur Cruise Missile 1B, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. A statement issued by the military's media wing said that the missile launch was witnessed by Lieutenant General Nadeem
New Delhi: Union Minister of State for IT and Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar informed Parliament in a written reply Wednesday that 9,849 social media accounts were blocked in 2020, reflecting a jump of almost 2,000 per cent since 2014, when 471 accounts were blocked. Chandrasekhar