Jaunpur: After a shocking case of caste violence involving an acid attack in Saharanpur, Jaunpur’s Dalit community accused the Badlapur police of brutally flogging their women. A viral video on social media shows how the women received heavy blows along their thighs and backs. Women laid
Bengaluru: After banning Hijab in schools and restrictions on Muslim traders near Hindu temples, the Karnataka government has now decided to revise school textbooks and delete some 'sensitive' chapters, including the ones that it claimed glorify Tipu Sultan - The Tiger of Mysore who is
Ankara: It has been 11 years since the civil war in Syria started, and images have now been reflecting same wounds and grief from the Russian war in Ukraine for a month. Besides military attacks, bombing and destruction, war is pain, tears and loss. Anadolu Agency correspondents
Addis Ababa: Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged Ethiopia to probe an airstrike on a school in the war-torn Tigray region that killed dozens as an “apparent war crime.” The rights watchdog said three bombs were dropped on January 7 on a school sheltering displaced Tigrayans
Rafia Zikariya THE Poles and Ukrainians wanted to cover up the matter. When war broke out in Ukraine in February, millions of Ukrainians fled to the Polish border. Also in the country were some 100,000 foreign students, the majority of whom were African and Indian. These
Geneva: The United Nations said it wanted the whole world covered by weather disaster early warning systems within five years to protect people from the worsening impacts of climate change. A third of the world’s people, mainly in the least-developed countries and developing small island states,
United Nations: The UN General Assembly is expected to vote Thursday on a new non-binding resolution which, if adopted by a majority of member states, will "demand" that Russia stop the war in Ukraine "immediately". The vote comes after 141 countries approved an earlier resolution on
Myanmar: The US decision to brand a crackdown by Myanmar's military against the Rohingya minority as genocide is a victory for human rights campaigners but will do little to alleviate the suffering of those still languishing in camps, activists say. Hundreds of thousands of the mostly
Sanjay Kumar There is a saying in journalism: “If your mother says she loves you, question it.” For journalists in India, this question has taken on a whole new meaning of late: does ‘Mother India’ still love a free press? Nation states around the world have always had
New Delhi: Since the reading down of Article 370, the ouster of journalists from government-allotted accommodation has been used as a lever to pressure those journalists “who the administration felt did not see eye to eye with the government,” a report by a fact-finding committee