New Delhi: After years of small divestments, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched India’s biggest-ever asset sale, a $29 billion privatization that could also spark worker protests as some of the nation’s corporate icons go on the block.Faced with the highest unemployment in 45 years
London: The suffering of the people of Occupied Kashmir has raised voices around the world, especially the British Parliament. On Thursday, in the House of Commons British MPs spoke out against the Indian atrocities and human rights abuses. The critical debate dismissed the argument that
Pune: Social activist Anna Hazare has threatened to go on a hunger strike if his demands on issues concerning farmers are not met by the Union government by the end of January next year, and said it would be his “last protest”. Speaking to reporters in
Washington: Outgoing US president Donald Trump achieved a rare feat on Wednesday as he became the first president to be impeached twice, this time on charges of inciting an insurrection in last week's violent attack in the Capitol. The vote in the Democratic-controlled House was 232-197
Bamako, Mali: Three United Nations peacekeepers died and six more were wounded Wednesday in northern Mali hours before the U.N.’s top official in the country expressed cautious optimism that a new roadmap would lead the turbulent West African nation to elections in March 2022. The U.N.
Nicosia: The United Nations' (UN) special envoy to Cyprus Jane Holl Lute held separate discussions here on Monday with the leaders of the divided island, in a bid to nail down details for an international conference to promote new peace negotiations, officials of the two
Lost amid the chaos last week was news of the death of Brian Urquhart, a pillar of the United Nations who helped create and then run its peacekeeping operations. Urquhart was the quintessential international civil servant — determined and unflappable — whose vision remained fixed
New Delhi: Lawyers, activists and victims of last year’s anti-Muslim violence in the Indian capital have accused the authorities and police of sabotaging the investigation and pressuring them to withdraw the cases. The office of a prominent lawyer fighting the cases of some victims of the
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had enforced the draconian laws in the Illegally Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) on the pretext of attracting investment. The president, on his Twitter handle, tagged a report appeared in The New York Times,
Islamabad: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has thanked Turkey for extending its firm support to Pakistan on core issue of Jammu and Kashmir. Jammu and Kashmir issue discussed in a bilateral meeting between Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu here