New Delhi: India says it accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan on Wednesday, blaming the incident on a “technical malfunction” during routine maintenance. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in an analysis posted on its website said, “Any object entering the airspace of any country is considered an
New Delhi: A fact finding committee (FFC) of the Press Council of India (PCI) has confirmed that the “news media in Jammu & Kashmir especially in the Kashmir Valley is slowly being choked mainly because of the extensive curbs imposed by the local administration”. The FFC
Islamabad: The Chairperson of Peace and Culture Organisation, Mushaal Hussein Mullick lamented that Indian troops have been committing shocking crimes against Kashmiri women of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) for the last three decades but ironically the world powers observed criminal silence in
Madhya Pradesh: In a brazen act of sexual violence against women in India, Hindutva members in their twenties pushed and hugged women walking on a crowded street and trying to kiss them forcibly amid shouting by the onlookers in full public view in Alirajpur district
Portland: With COVID-19 case numbers plummeting, Emily Safrin did something she hadn’t done since the pandemic began two years ago: She put her fears aside and went to a concert. The fully vaccinated and boosted restaurant server planned to keep her mask on, but as the
Geneva: Some 2.5 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded two weeks ago, and another two million have been internally displaced by the war, the United Nations said. The UN Refugee Agency s chief Filippo Grandi blamed the mass displacement on what he called a
Paris: The world economy s fragile recovery from the Covid-induced crisis is now threatened by Russia s war in Ukraine and soaring commodity prices. Here are four questions regarding the risks to global GDP: - Will growth stall? - "The war happened right at a time when Europe
Dubai: Forty-seven children were "killed or maimed" in Yemen s civil war in January and February following a surge in violence, the United Nations children s fund said on Saturday. Children are the "first and most to suffer", UNICEF said, adding that a total of at
Kyiv: A mosque in the southeastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, where 80 civilians were taking shelter, has been shelled by Russian forces, Ukraine’s foreign ministry said on Saturday. “The mosque of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his wife Roxolana (Hurrem Sultan) in Mariupol was shelled
Srinagar: An Indian army pilot succumbed to his injuries as his helicopter crashed near the Line of Control (LoC) in North Kashmir’s Gurez valley, NDTV reported. The cheetah helicopter intended to rescue a paramilitary soldier of India's border security personnel and carry him to the hospital.