Yangon: Myanmar’s military seized power on February 1, ousting the civilian government and arresting its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. More than 900 people have since been killed and thousands of others arrested after the violent suppression of mass protests against junta rule. Here is a look
Los Angeles/Moscow: The International Space Station (ISS) was thrown briefly out of control on Thursday when jet thrusters of a newly arrived Russian research module inadvertently fired a few hours after it was docked to the orbiting outpost, NASA officials said. The seven crew members aboard
Islamabad: Pakistan summoned the Indian charge d’affaires on Friday to categorically reject the Indian Ministry of External Affairs’ “false, untenable and self-serving comments” on the recently-held elections in Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The FO, in a statement, said the Indian charge d’affaires was summoned to convey
New Delhi: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned India not to backslide on democracy amid mounting criticism from rights groups that civil liberties are under attack. Blinken, on his first visit to the country since joining US President Joe Biden's administration, held talks on supplies
London: Recent research by the London School of Economics highlights the discrimination against the minority groups like Muslims and Christians in India, and how different institutions in the country work together to make sure that these people are unable to raise their standards of living
Mian Rauf The entire world is battling the COVID-19 contagion but the Indian establishment, under Modi’s Hindutva rule, is busy stirring up mischief in the Indian-occupied Kashmir (IoK). Delhi’s ill-advised August 5, 2019 move of annexing the IoK by changing its constitutional status under Article 370
Jammu: A priest allegedly hanged himself to death inside his room at a temple complex police said. The deceased has been identified as Brij Mohan, a resident of Madhya Pradesh. His body was found hanging with a rope inside his room at the temple complex at
Patna: Binod Das, a twenty-six-year-old Dalit man died in a hospital in Bhagalpur, 12 days after he was admitted there following physical torture in police custody. According to the etails, Binod Das who breathed his last at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital (JNMCH), was detained
Beijing: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi reportedly pressed the leaders of Afghanistan's insurgent Taliban group to "make a clean break" from all terrorists, including the anti-China East Turkistan Islamic Movement, or ETIM, during a meeting he hosted. Officials from both sides said Taliban deputy political chief
Washington: An 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the Alaskan peninsula late Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said, prompting a tsunami warning. The earthquake hit 56 miles (91 kilometers) southeast of the town of Perryville, the USGS said. The US government issued a tsunami warning for