New Delhi: A top elected official in India’s northeast region called for the withdrawal of emergency powers granted to Indian troops, a day after soldiers killed over a dozen civilians, sparking violent protests in the troubled state. India’s remote northeast region which includes eight states is

Srinagar: Regional Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti has said that New Delhi was forming “proxy political parties” in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJK) in a bid to legitimise its unconstitutional decision of abrogating the region’s semi-autonomous status in August, 2019. The former chief

Pearl Harbor: The United States will mark the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Tuesday. The attack on Dec. 7, 1941, shook a country that had been so focused on World War Two in Europe that

Washington:: Six countries including the US expressed concern over reports of widespread arrests by Ethiopia of Tigrayan citizens based on ethnicity in connection with the country’s year-old conflict, urging the government to stop acts they said likely violate international law. The US, Britain, Canada, Australia, Denmark

Washington/Moscow: U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday will hold a high-stakes video conference call that Biden will use to try to dissuade Moscow from invading Ukraine, where thousands of troops are massed near the border. Ahead of his first direct talks

London: Britain s health minister said on Monday there is now community transmission of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus across regions of England but it is too early to say if this will "knock us off our road to recovery". Defending the introduction of stricter

Yangoon: Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are suing Meta Platforms Inc, formerly known as Facebook, for $150 billion over allegations that the social media company did not take action against anti-Rohingya hate speech that contributed to violence. A US class-action complaint, filed in California by law firms

Male: The leader of the opposition, former President Abdullah Yameen Abdul Gayyoom stated that some news outlets operated in the Maldives were on the Indian High Commission’s payroll. Speaking at the opposition rally held in the Carnival area, the former President stated that the Maldives no

Islamabad: India remains the most unsafe country for women in the world. Lower caste women in particular bear the brunt, with little to no access to justice. A 14-year-old Dalit girl of Mathura’s Kosi Kalan area was allegedly kidnaped and raped repeatedly in Delhi for