Male: Opposition leader, former President Abdullah Yameen Abdul Gayyoom, has travelled to Meedhoo (Raa Atoll) as part of his campaigning for the "India Out" movement; a grassroots movement that calls for the removal of Indian military personnel and assets from the Maldives. Households in Meedhoo had
London: Citing hijab ban attempts as an existentialist threat to Muslims, pro-Khalistan group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) has called upon Muslims in India to start a "hijab referendum" to carve out “Urduistan” in the areas of Rajasthan, Delhi, UP, Bihar, and West Bengal, where the
Qaisar Mansoor In India, national crime statistics show that violence against Dalits is on the rise. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), crime against Dalits – ranging from rape, murder, beatings, and violence related to land matters. Persecution and ill-treatment of minorities by caste supremacist
Meerut: Almost all the 23 people believed to have died when police cracked down on a wave of protests in India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh little more than two years ago were reportedly Muslims. Now, many members of the major religious minority fear more repression
New Delhi: Records related to alleged human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir, which were being handled by the erstwhile State Human Rights Commission, are locked up in a room since the panel was wound up after the state was downgraded to a Union Territory
Nayyar Adnan Human rights abuses in Illegally Indian-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) ranges from mass killings, enforced disappearances, torture, rape and sexual abuse to political repression and suppression of freedom of speech. Currently India maintains almost 1 million troops in Kashmir, making it the most militarized
United Nations: The highest-ranking U.N. official to visit Ethiopia since war began in the Tigray region in 2020 said she thinks Tigrayan fighters are hopeful of ending the conflict and she senses that top government officials are not just more hopeful but making a greater
Washington: The efficacy of third doses of the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines wanes substantially by the fourth month after administration, a new study by the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. Though it's now well documented that vaccine efficacy goes down after
Washington: After months of waiting, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order giving half of the $7 billion in frozen Afghan assets to Afghanistan, while keeping the other half for victims of the Sept 11 terror attacks. The US administration blocked the assets belonging to
New York: Current and former staffers have accused the top director of the World Health Organization in the Western Pacific of racist, unethical and abusive behavior that has undermined the U.N. health agency’s efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic. The allegations were laid out in an