New Delhi: India on Friday registered 1,072 fatalities due to Covid-19 recorded in the past 24 hours, taking the overall nationwide toll to 5,00,055. The country had recorded over 1,000 deaths on Thursday – 1,008 – as well, but the toll had included 335 backlog

Karnataka: The southern Indian state of Karnataka is witnessing a deepening hijab row, with the Indian media reporting a second incident in recent weeks of Muslim students being denied entry to their educational institution for wearing headscarves. According to Hindustan Times, 27 students were barred from

Chennai: Forty people from eight Dalit families in Theni, southern Tamil Nadu have embraced Islam after they found living amongst the upper caste Hindus a nightmare. The conversion occurred a couple of days before at Dombicheri village in Bodinayakanur town in Theni district and Islamic priests

Islamabad: Mushtaq Ahmed Mehar (Former Ambassador): China-Pakistan friendship spans into diverse areas. The Prime Minister is visiting China on the invitation of the Chinese leadership. China is emerging as a global economic power and its strong relations with Pakistan are important. The Prime Minister while visiting

New Delhi: India announced a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing after a commander involved in 2020 border clashes between the two countries appeared as an Olympic torchbearer in the customary torch relay leading up to the Games. Following the official move, India's public

Rawalpindi: Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Babar Iftikhar has categorically rejected as misleading the Indian Chief of Army Staff's claim that the ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) is holding because they negotiated from a "position of strength". The military spokesperson Friday

New Delhi: Police in India have arrested 12 people, including eight women and three minor boys, over alleged sexual assault and parading of a young woman in the streets of capital New Delhi. Police told Al Jazeera the three minors are accused of sexually assaulting the

Kabul: The number of malnourished children at clinics is increasing every day. Anadolu Agency has visited malnutrition clinics in Afghanistan's capital Kabul and witnessed children who cannot crawl or stand despite their age because of extreme hunger in the war-torn country. War, hunger and poverty began