Srinagar: Human rights abuses in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) range 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 zone in the

Antananarivo: Cyclone Batsirai swept out of Madagascar after killing 20 people, displacing 55,000 and devastating the drought-hit island's agricultural heartland, leading the UN to warn of a worsening humanitarian crisis. Madagascar was already reeling from a tropical storm which killed 55 people weeks earlier, and the

Geneva: The World Health Organization says coronavirus case counts fell 17% worldwide over the last week compared to the previous week, including a 50% drop in the United States, while deaths globally declined 7 percent. The weekly epidemiological report from the U.N. health agency, released late

London: London and Tehran reached a deal last summer for the release of detained British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars, but the agreement fell through at the last minute, MPs have heard. Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained in Iran for more than

Washington: US President Joe Biden urged American citizens to leave Ukraine immediately, and warned about potential major conflict with Moscow should US and Russian troops engage each other on the ground. “American citizens should leave, should leave now,” Biden said in an interview with NBC News. “We’re

Jerusalem: Police used Pegasus spyware to hack phones of dozens of prominent Israelis, including a son of former premier Benjamin Netanyahu, activists and senior government officials, an Israeli newspaper reported. The bombshell revelation is the latest from the business daily Calcalist, which had previously reported that

Kathmandu: Nepal asked India to stop “unilateral construction and expansion” of roads in its East of Kali River territory but stopped short of lodging a formal diplomatic protest. This comes days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement to expand the road across the Lipulekh area, which

New Delhi:  Like cow, namaaz and skull-cap, hijab is only the latest pretext to impose apartheid on and attack Muslim women and the ban on this Islamic practice is a hate crime, said prominent woman groups and activists while expressing solidarity with the students protesting

New Delhi: In the recent turn of events following the hijab row controversy in the Karnataka state of India, the interim orders of a Karnataka court have been challenged in the Supreme Court of India, according to media reports. The high court in Karnataka on Thursday