New Delhi: A 17-year-old Muslim auto mechanic was beaten to death by a mob in Banat village near Shamli town of Western Uttar Pradesh, police and victim’s family said. A case of murder has been registered at Aadarsh Mandi Police Station against eight accused, police said,

Geneva: The UN is convening an aid conference in Geneva today (Monday) in an effort to raise more than $600 million for Afghanistan, warning of a humanitarian crisis there following the Taliban takeover. Even before the Taliban's seizure of Kabul last month, half the population —

Seoul: North Korea test-fired a new "long-range cruise missile" over the weekend, state media reported Monday, with the United States saying the nuclear-armed country was threatening its neighbours and beyond. Pictures in the Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed a missile exiting one of five tubes on a

Yangon: Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi skipped the resumption of her coronavirus-delayed trial in a junta court because she felt ill, her lawyer said Monday. Suu Kyi was deposed by the military in a February coup that sparked a mass uprising. The junta launched

New York: United States Senator Chris Van Hollen Monday says that Pakistan's role in the current Afghanistan situation is very important. Speaking to the media, the Democrat senator stressed on the importance of contact between Washington DC and Islamabad. Hollen stated that US President Joe Biden should

New Delhi: The Modi government in India on Monday refused to file a detailed affidavit in Supreme Court on a batch of petitions seeking independent probe into the alleged Pegasus snooping row. The government told a bench headed by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana that it has

Tehran: Iran and the UN atomic agency announced the IAEA would keep up surveillance of Tehran’s nuclear activities, soothing a sore point in talks to resuscitate a 2015 deal to curb its programme. With negotiations in Vienna between Iran and world powers deadlocked, the steps hashed

Islamabad: Pakistan released a dossier exposing the scale of war crimes and human rights violations of Indian forces in occupied Kashmir as ministers hinted at moving the International Court of Justice over New Delhi’s steps at demographic change in the disputed territory. Giving details of the

New Delhi: Representatives of several Indian diaspora organizations in the United Statesheld a zoom conference to address the death threats given to the speakers of the Dismantling Global Hindutva conference by the Hindutva extremists. Masood Rab, Anil Wagde, Shaik Ubaid, Pieter Friedrich, Aslam Abdullah, Saeed Patel,