Gurgaon: The opposition to Friday Namaz in the open in Gurgaon continues for more than two months as Hindutva supporters on Friday disrupted Muslim congregational prayer at Sector 37 and held their own ‘prayer’. Muslims gathered for the Namaz but several of them were forced to

Uttar Pradesh: The brutal murder of four members of a Dalit family in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj district over a land dispute sparked protests in the region on Friday with politicians making a beeline to the victims’ village and local residents alleging police negligence. Police said

Muzaffarabad: Family of a teenage resident of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) urged the Indian authorities to release and repatriate him at the earliest because he had strayed across the Line of Control (LoC) out of ignorance. Rashid Naeem Khan, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police

London: The illegal and extra-judicial arrest of globally recognised Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez triggered protests in the busy streets of the United Kingdom. Protesters gathered outside the BBC office and urged the international community to pressure India to release Parvez, the programme coordinator of

Oslo: ​The Norwegian Centre of Humanitarian Studies (NCHS) annual meeting will take place on 2-3 December and will be organized as a hybrid event. ​This year's overarching theme is "Humanitarian Protection 20 Years into the 'Global War on Terror'". Twenty years after 9/11 and the US-led

Paris: France on Friday scrapped planned talks with the UK about migrant crossings after an “unacceptable” letter from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, pushing relations to new lows after 27 people died in the Channel. The anger in Paris was sparked by Johnson’s decision to send

London: Britain said it was concerned by a newly identified coronavirus variant spreading in South Africa that might make vaccines less effective and imperil efforts to fight the pandemic. The UK Health Security Agency said the variant, which is called B.1.1.529, has a spike protein that

Rome: Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed Afghan woman immortalised decades ago on a National Geographic cover, has been evacuated to Italy, the Italian government said. “Afghan citizen Sharbat Gula has arrived in Rome,” it said in a statement, without giving a specific date. Rome said it had responded

Rabat: The Moroccan government has been accused of using the renewable energy and low emissions of the disputed region of Western Sahara to “greenwash” its climate statistics. Western Sahara is a desert region which was annexed by Morocco after the Spanish colonisers left in 1975. Since

United Nations: UN Secretary General António Guterres urged governments to redouble their efforts for ending violence against women by 2030 as the world began 16 days of activism to highlight the issue. “Violence against women is not inevitable,” the UN chief said in a message. “Change