Washington: Pakistan's permanent representative to the United Nations Munir Akram has given Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi's letter highlighting the human rights violations in Indian-held Kashmir to United Nations Security Council (UNSC) President Abdou Abarry. Ambassador Akram called on the UN official to convey to him
New Delhi: India reported 9,216 new COVID-19 infections Friday after announcing its first two Omicron cases the previous day, as groups of resident doctors stayed away from non-critical work to demand new post-graduate students be enrolled to boost staffing. The country, whose hospitals bore the brunt
Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani On November 24, a delegation of international pilgrims led by Shri Guru Maharaj from Anandpur Sahid, India landed at Peshawar Airport to visit the samadhi (shrine) of Shri Param Hans Ji Maharaj, with religious enthusiasm and zeal. These Hindu pilgrims had arrived from
New Delhi: The Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi issued 136 visas to Hindu devotees who will be visiting the country to participate in the 313th birth anniversary celebrations of Shiv Avtari Satguru Sant Shadaram Sahib at Shadani Darbar Hayat Pitafi in Sindh from December
Bengaluru: India has detected two cases of the new Omicron coronavirus variant in the southern state of Karnataka, a health ministry official said on Friday. "All primary contacts and secondary contacts of both the cases have been traced and are being tested," the health ministry's joint
Islamabad: Pakistan summoned an Indian diplomat at the Foreign Office to reject the "mischievous spin" being given by New Delhi to a recent incident involving photos taken at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur. Earlier this week, Punjab police had launched an investigation after a female blogger's
NEW YORK: After months of negotiations, Harvard University has added caste as a protected category to its graduate student union contract for all graduate and undergraduate student workers, making the Ivy League school the first to have caste as a protected category in its non-discrimination
Geneva: United Nations has expressed concern over the arrest of a prominent Kashmiri rights activist Khurram Parvez under the stringent “anti-terror” law by Indian authorities and has called for his release. Already, Modi government has crushed the media in Indian Occupied Kashmir. At least 2,300 people have
New Delhi: The nation will have nine nuclear reactors by 2024 and a new nuclear project, the first in northern India, will come up 150 kms away from Delhi in Gorakhpur of Haryana, the government informed the Rajya Sabha. Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances
Larnaca, Cyprus: Pope Francis arrived on Cyprus on Thursday with a focus on inter-faith dialogue and lending his support to a country on one of the frontlines of Europe’s migration crisis. Francis, who will travel on to Greece on Dec. 4, was to meet with Cyprus’s