Kavita Chowdhury Weeks after Hindu right-wing groups made an open call for genocide against Muslims at a dharma sansad (religious conclave) in Haridwar in north India, Gregory Stanton, the founding president of Genocide Watch, warned of similarities between the current situation in India and that which
Islamabad: India declined to issue visas to Pakistani pilgrims at the eleventh hour for attending the annual Urs of Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer from February 3 to 14. Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony Pir Noorul Haq Qadri, in a statement, expressed dismay
New Delhi: At least six journalists were killed, another 108 attacked while 13 media houses were targeted in India in 2021 while the spotlight on the denial of media freedom continued to be on occupied Jammu and Kashmir where journalists often found themselves summoned to
London: The world's first human challenge trial in which volunteers were deliberately exposed to COVID-19 to advance research into the disease was found to be safe in healthy young adults, one of the companies running the study said on Wednesday. The data supports the safety of
Jalalabad: Afghanistan's public universities on Wednesday opened for the first time since the Taliban took over the country last year, with female students joining their male counterparts heading back to campus. The Taliban administration had not officially announced its plan for female university students, but education
Jerusalem: Amnesty International labelled Israel an “apartheid” state that treats Palestinians as “an inferior racial group”, joining the assessment of other rights groups which the Jewish state vehemently rejects. “Israel’s cruel policies of segregation, dispossession and exclusion across all territories under its control clearly amount to
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s navy said it had arrested 21 Indian fishermen after a confrontation with two trawlers poaching in the island’s territorial waters. A fast attack craft was damaged in the clashes on Monday night, the navy said in a statement, without giving further details. “As the
New Delhi: India on Wednesday morning recorded 1,61,386 new coronavirus cases, pushing the infection tally in the country to 4,16,30,885 since the pandemic began in January 2020. The number of cases is 3.39 percent fewer than Tuesday’s tally of 1,67,059 infections. With 1,733 deaths, the toll
Jai Kumar Dhirani The violation of human rights in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) by the Indian government has been going on for decades. Since the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party BJP took power in India, matters in Indian Occupied Kashmir have been going from bad to
Srinagar: Indian occupied forces are relentlessly targeting Kashmiris, especially the youth, in Occupied Kashmir and are driven by extremist Hindutva ideology that provoked and condoned genocide of Muslims. Visiting Professor at Southwest University of Political Science & Law, Prof. Cheng Xizhong has noted that under the