Melbourne: The United States remains focused long-term on the Indo-Pacific region despite concerns over Russian aggression towards Ukraine, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday. Blinken is in the Australian city of Melbourne for a meeting on Friday with his counterparts from Australia, India
Moscow: Russia and Belarus launched joint military drills Thursday that have heightened tensions with the West, as NATO leaders pursued an intensive diplomatic push to prevent a feared invasion of Ukraine. The war games, set to run until February 20, are the latest point of contention
London: Democratic standards across the world fell again in 2021 amid the pandemic and growing support for authoritarianism to leave just over 45 per cent of the world's population living in a democracy, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) said on Thursday. As in 2020, less than
Hyderabad: Widespread anger gripped Telangana over Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s comments on the conception of the State. The Prime Minister had said in Parliament that ‘BJP was not against the formation of Telangana but the way it happened was objectionable.’ This has led to the
Dhaka: Around 50 students at Dhaka University in Bangladesh formed a human chain on campus Wednesday, expressing solidarity with Muslim students in India in a row over the wearing of the hijab, or headscarf. The students said the wearing of the hijab is a personal choice
The recent Hijab controversy, as you call it, in Karnataka is just not about hijab. That’s the first thing that we must register. We are a democracy and there is a Constitution. Article 25 of the Constitution clearly mentions that all persons are equally entitled
Karnataka: A video of a lone Burqa-wearing Muslim student, who was heckled by Hindu far-right goons in India’s southern Karnataka state, has stirred an outrage and triggered protests after some schools in the state refused entry to female students wearing the hijab. "We will continue
Male: The ruling Maldivian Democratic Party’s (MDP) Parliamentary Group has passed a decision to submit a bill that would punish the grassroots “India Out” movement with heavy fines, house arrests, and prison sentences. The “India Out” campaign is a grassroots movement which called for the removal
CJ Werleman The Biden administration, whether aware or not, is aiding and abetting the reach and influence of Hindu nationalist groups through associated charity organisations. After nearly a full month of domestic and international pressure, Yati Narsinghanand, one of the Hindu extremists who organised an event in
New Delhi: After Hundai and KFC, now global automaker Toyota Motor and fast food chain Domino’s Pizza are under fire in India for expressing support for the oppressed people of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Japan’s Suzuki Motor, majority owner of India’s biggest carmaker Maruti