Tamil Nadu: Dalit Christian organizations in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have urged a Vatican tribunal to end casteism and discrimination against Dalits in the Catholic Church. The group sent documents on July 10 highlighting the plight of Dalit Christians in India, especially in
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) reaches out in all directions, across Central Asia into Europe, up into Russia, through the seas and oceans of Asia, out to Africa and of course, deep into Southeast Asia. The Southeast Asian leg of BRI consists primarily of a
United Nations: United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “encouraged” by the agreement between the Afghan government and the Taliban to expedite peace talks, according to Deputy Spokesman Farhan Aziz Haq. “The secretary-general is encouraged by the joint declaration issued in Doha, Qatar, on Sunday, under
London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was not prepared to impose lockdown restrictions to stop the spread of Covid-19 to save the elderly and denied the National Health Service would be overwhelmed, his former top adviser said in an interview. In his first TV interview since
New York: The Human Rights Watch has called a ruling by a top European Union court allowing employers to ban headscarves under certain conditions a "violation of religious freedoms", adding that Muslim women in Europe are being forced to choose between their faith and their
Damascus: Syrian air defences shot down Israeli missile over the northern province of Aleppo state media reported, in an attack that a war monitor said targeted positions of pro-regime groups. "At around 23:37 on Monday
Washington: A couple of days after India admitted to its negative role in keeping Pakistan on the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the US has said that Pakistan has made “significant progress” on its first action plan with 26 of 27
Birmingham: Tehreek-e-Kashmir (TeK) UK and All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference (AJKMC) jointly held a press conference in Birmingham to mark the Accession to Pakistan Day. The AJKMC passed a resolution on July 19 in 1947, announcing that the Muslim majority Jammu and Kashmir will be
New Delhi: Narendra Modi’s government has been accused of treason and “unforgivable sacrilege” by the political opposition in India following a series of reports by the Pegasus project revealing several journalists, activists and an opposition election strategist had their phone numbers included in a data
New Delhi: Indian opposition parties disrupted parliament on Tuesday, demanding an investigation into reports that the government used Israeli-made Pegasus spyware to snoop on scores of journalists, activists and politicians, including the main opposition leader Rahul Gandhi. Shouting out slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government,