Gurgaon: Members of extremist Hindu groups prevented Muslims from offering Juma prayers in Gurgaon city of Indian state of Haryana. Members of extremist Hindu groups occupied a site in Sector 12A to stop Muslims from performing their religious obligation. Visuals from the site showed people sitting around
United Nations: The global food trade could hit an all-time high in 2021-22, in both volume and value terms, says a UN report released on Thursday. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) reported that by the end of 2021, the global food import bill should
Geneva: Around 3.2 million Afghan children are likely to suffer from acute malnutrition by the end of this year, with 1mn of them at risk of dying, a World Health Organisation spokesperson said Friday. "It's an uphill battle as starvation grips the country," Margaret Harris told
Glasgow: UN climate talks headed towards a rocky conclusion Friday after two weeks of fraught debate failed to resolve several key disputes or produce the emissions cutting plans needed to limit global warming to 1.5C. "The world is watching us", COP26 President Alok Sharma told delegates
London: Britain has urged Iran to back a deal that would revive the agreement struck in 2015 that saw its nuclear program curbed in exchange for multilateral sanctions relief. The US withdrew from the agreement in 2018, and relations between Washington and Tehran have declined sharply
United Nations: The United States and European delegations on the UN Security Council condemned on Thursday Belarus's behavior in the migrant crisis on its border with Poland. Poland says the government of strongman Alexander Lukashenko has lured about 2,000 migrants, mainly Kurds from the Middle East,
Contributed by LIPR Ambassador of Peace Hiba Shaikh Ansari based in India Introduction Alex de Tocqueville was probably the first great political theorist to examine what was then a fresh and rising phenomenon- the emergence of the press as a powerful instrument of democracy. Media control of
New Delhi: India recorded 12,516 new coronavirus cases on Friday morning, pushing the overall tally of infections to 3,44,14,186 since the pandemic began in January last year. The number of new cases was 4.39% lower than Thursday’s count of 13,091. India’s toll rose to 4,62,690 as
New Delhi: Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi called on her party to "fight the diabolical campaign of BJP and RSS ideologically" and said that the fight to defend democracy, the Constitution and the Party`s ideology should begin with being fully prepared to identify and counter
New Delhi: Troubles of a prominent American Hindu organisation facing charges of exploiting Indian workers in the United States have further increased with amendment to the original lawsuit filed in May this year. Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) is accused of luring hundreds of labourers