Shimla: The bypoll results in Himachal have dealt a severe blow to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ‘Mission Repeat’ campaign for the 2022 assembly elections, while the Congress has got a shot in the arm as it looks to wrest power after
New Delhi: The real motive behind the arrest of Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, was to send a clear message that even the most powerful Muslims are not safe under Hindu nationalist rule of Modi-led BJP party, Debasish Roy Chowdhury, a
Debasish Roy Chowdhury Indian leaders love to talk up Mahatma Gandhi when they travel abroad. It plays well to the popular notion of India as a land of peace and love, and boosts its moral authority as a responsible democracy on the world stage. So, Gandhi
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government increasingly harassed, arrested, and prosecuted rights defenders, activists, journalists, students, academics, and others critical of the government or its policies, according to Human Rights Watch Report 2021. The government continued to impose harsh and discriminatory restrictions on Muslim-majority
Paris: The 3.5 trillion tonnes of Greenland’s ice sheet that has melted over the past decade has raised global sea levels by one centimetre and is heightening worldwide flood risks, new research showed. The ice sheet atop the world’s largest island contains enough frozen water to
Paris: The first ever scientific assessment of the amounts of greenhouse gases emitted from and absorbed by forests in UNESCO World Heritage sites has found that forests in World Heritage sites play a vital role in mitigating climate change by absorbing 190 million tons of
Washington: The global death toll from Covid-19 topped five million less than two years into a crisis that has not only devastated poor countries but also humbled wealthy ones with first-rate health care systems. Together, the United States, the European Union, Britain and Brazil all upper-middle-
United Nations: China and Russia are pushing the U.N. Security Council to ease sanctions on North Korea by reviving a 2019 attempt to remove a ban on Pyongyang’s exports of statues, seafood and textiles and expanding it to include lifting a refined petroleum imports cap. In
Islamabad: Turning down India’s invitation to a meeting of the national security advisers (NSA) of key stakeholder countries on Afghanistan, Pakistan’s National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf Tuesday categorically announced he would not visit New Delhi. Talking to journalists, following a ceremony during which Pakistan and Uzbekistan
New Delhi: More than 2.2 million Indian accounts were banned by WhatsApp while 560 grievance reports were received by the messaging platform in September, according to its compliance report. In its latest report released on Monday, WhatsApp said 2,209,000 Indian accounts on the platform were banned