Washington: International Christian Concern (ICC) in a report has revealed that Indian anti-conversion laws do not secure the freedom of religion but rather take away their ability to fully exercise their rights without government hindrance. International Christian Concern is a group based in Washington, DC, whose
Haryana: The Haryana Police has lodged a case against four men, including a police constable, for allegedly holding a Dalit woman captive for nine days and raping her, news agency PTI reported. In her statement, the Dalit woman, who is in her late 20s, alleged that
Rome: Pope Francis on Wednesday left the Rome hospital where the head of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics had undergone an operation on his colon on July 4. The 84-year old was whisked away from the Gemelli University Hospital in a car with tinted windows and
Stan Swamy’s death shows India’s complex legal structure fails to protect individual liberty July 8, 2021 The death of Father Stan Swamy is a black day for the Indian judiciary, which was unable to even grant a basic right such as bail to a senior citizen with
London: Britain will work with the Taliban should they enter the government in Afghanistan, British Defence Minister Ben Wallace told the Daily Telegraph in an interview. "Whatever the government of the day is, provided it adheres to certain international norms, the UK government will engage with
Islamabad: Ahead of a fresh push by Afghan politicians to break the stalemate in Afghan peace talks, Pakistan once again urged Kabul and the Taliban leadership to show flexibility by agreeing to a political settlement so that further violence and bloodshed could be avoided. This message
London: Campaigners are hailing the end of opencast coal mining in Britain after a long battle to see off the final applications for new mines in former coal heartlands. The Banks Group’s decision not to appeal against the rejection of a proposed scheme on the outskirts
New York: Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia, briefed ambassadors on latest developments under the accord that ended five decades of fighting between the Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP). The peace
Madrid: Countries across Asia, Americas and Africa are seeing a resurgence in COVID-19 cases, forcing them to bring back or extend stringent lockdowns and hampering drives to vaccinate their population. EUROPE * Spain surpassed 4 million coronavirus cases since the pandemic began after adding 43,960 new cases,
Geneva: The UN Human Rights Council called for those behind “massive scale” enforced disappearances in Syria over the past decade of conflict to be held accountable. The resolution, presented by Britain and a number of European countries, along with the US, Turkey and Qatar, decried that
