Washington: US President Joe Biden hailed the Senate passage of a "historic" $1.2 trillion infrastructure package, celebrating a major bipartisan win on a plan he vowed would "transform America." By funding work on roads, bridges and ports, as well as clean water and high-speed internet, Biden
London: Pakistan’s High Commissioner to the UK Moazzam Ahmad Khan on Tuesday said he is optimistic that the British government will remove Pakistan from its red list in the upcoming travel update on August 26. In a briefing to journalists here, Mr Khan outlined the mission’s
Kabdul: The Afghanistan government has removed Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen Wali Mohammad Ahmadzai from his post, sources told Wednesday. Sources said Ahmadzai has been replaced by General Hebatullah Alizai as the new Afghanistan army chief. Reasons for the removal of the Afghan army chief were
Ladakh: Two politicians and a journalist from Ladakh have moved an impleadment application to the Supreme Court in a plea challenging the constitutional validity of the Centre’s decision to revoke the special status of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, Bar and Bench reported. An
Shambhavi Bhushan In 2014, a mob attacked African students at a central Delhi metro station. In 2016, a mob in Bengaluru stripped a 21-year-old Tanzanian woman and attacked her friends after a Sudanese student ran over and killed a local woman. In 2017, five Nigerians were
New Delhi: The Archdiocese of Pondicherry and Cuddalore and the Commission for Scheduled Castes and Tribes will observe August 10 as a ‘black day’ in protest against denial of SC status to Dalit Christians and Muslims. Fr. A. Arputharaj, Secretary, SC/ST Commission, Puducherry, told reporters that
Bengaluru: Islam is facing serious threat in Modi-led present-day India where the High Court of Karnataka state of India has ordered the management of 16 mosques in Bengaluru to submit affidavit in connection with sound pollution. The divisional bench headed by Chief Justice A.S. Oka and
Geneva: The UN human rights chief Tuesday urged an end to the Taliban offensive on Afghan cities and said her office was receiving reports of possible war crimes. "The Taliban must cease their military operations in cities. Unless all parties return to the negotiating table and
Kutupalong: Bangladesh on Tuesday began vaccinating Rohingya refugees living in congested camps as the impoverished South Asian nation battles a record surge in coronavirus cases, officials said. Health officials say 2,600 Covid-19 cases and 29 deaths have been recorded in the camps housing some 850,000 Rohingya
Stockholm: An Iranian official accused of involvement in the 1988 execution of thousands of political dissidents goes on trial in Sweden on Tuesday in a landmark case likely to stoke tensions in the Islamic republic. Hamid Noury, 60, is accused by Swedish prosecutors of "intentionally taking