Gujarat: A senior police officer's sworn statement to India's Supreme Court alleges that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi deliberately allowed anti-Muslim riots in the state. More than 1,000 people were killed in the violence in 2002. Sanjiv Bhatt says he attended a meeting at which Mr Modi
Islamabad: In a bid to stop the Australian cricket team's tour of Pakistan, threatening messages were sent to the family members of an Australian player from an Instagram account based in the Indian state of Gujarat, reported Express News on Monday. On February 26, a day
By Asad Abass The Himalayan mountains know best what happened on the cold dark night of February 23, 1991, deep in the Kashmir valley. But is it because what these mountains had seen occurred nearly three decades ago, in two nondescript villages, that India and the
By Thomas Clarke-LIPR Ambassador of Peace from Netherlands Introduction Palestine is recognized by the United Nations as a de jure sovereign state, between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, at the intersection of three continents, in the heart of Eurasia. Being the birthplace of Judaism and
By Nayyar Adnan The 2002 Gujarat riots, also known as the 2002 Gujarat violence and the Gujarat pogrom, was a three-day period of inter-communal violence in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The burning of a train in Godhra on 27 February 2002, which caused the
By Muhammad Shoaib Khan In August 2019, following a deployment of tens of thousands of additional troops and paramilitary forces to the region, the Indian government moved to revoke Article 370 of the Indian constitution, removing the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. India-administered Kashmir remained
Kyiv: As Russian troops move towards Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, climate scientists, campaigners and policymakers have been pulled away from their life’s work. The Russian military entered parts of eastern Ukraine on Tuesday and then advanced into the rest of the country and towards its capital Kyiv
New York: It will go down as one of the most surreal sessions the United Nations chamber has ever witnessed, as the very war it was supposed to prevent broke out while it was sitting. Vladimir Putin, with brutal timing, delivered a speech announcing that Russia
Kabul: Afghanistan s main universities reopened Saturday six months after the Taliban returned to power, but only a trickle of women returned to now-segregated classes. Most secondary schools for girls and all public universities were shuttered following the Taliban s August 15 takeover, sparking fears women
Dubai: Choosing sides in Ukraine’s crisis would have once been easy for Gulf states long protected by the US, but growing ties with Moscow are forcing them to strike a balance. As the world rushed to condemn the Russian invasion of its smaller neighbour, the wealthy