New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Delhi unit chief Adarsh Gupta on Thursday said that civic bodies in the city’s eastern and southern parts should also carry out demolition drives to “remove illegal encroachments by Bangladeshis and Rohingyas”. His comment came a day after the BJP-ruled
Chicago: Driving north on Interstate 294, Chicago-area drivers might notice a billboard that reads “My hijab, my right” featuring an illustration of a Muslim woman with her arm raised to make a fist, says an article carried by the Chicago Tribune. The newspaper says the ad
Hyderabad: The case of a missing 13-year-old Dalit girl in Andhra Pradesh, which gradually devolved into a shocking sex trafficking racket, has sent the state police scurrying to track down as many as 80 suspects. The teenager, who is from Medikonduru village in Guntur, was allegedly
New Delhi: An hour after India’s Supreme Court ordered municipal authorities to stop demolitions in Delhi, a bulldozer came crashing down on the entrance gate of a mosque in Jahangirpuri. Muslim residents who live in housing enclaves behind the mosque stood watching through tall iron gates
Chicago: Driving north on Interstate 294, Chicago-area drivers might notice a billboard that reads “My hijab, my right” featuring an illustration of a Muslim woman with her arm raised to make a fist, says an article carried by the Chicago Tribune. The newspaper says the ad
London: Amnesty International called out Israel's "apartheid", terming it a "war against humanity". "Apartheid is not just a relic of the past, it is the lived reality for Palestinians across Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories — it is happening to this day," said the global
Singapore: Singapore and New Zealand will cooperate on green technologies in the fight against climate change, prime ministers from both countries said Wednesday. The joint efforts will be part of the new climate change and green economy pillar added to Singapore and New Zealand’s enhanced partnership,
Kuala Lumpur: Hundreds of Rohingya migrants from Myanmar escaped a detention center in Malaysia after a riot broke out, with six killed on a highway as they fled, authorities said. Many Rohingya arrive in Malaysia by boat after enduring harrowing, months-long sea journeys. Those who are
New York: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has made a plea for a four-day Holy Week humanitarian pause in the war in Ukraine beginning on Holy Thursday and running through Easter Sunday, April 24, to allow for humanitarian corridors, warning that the destruction and human loss
Moscow: Russia called on Ukrainian forces to "immediately" lay down arms and issued a new ultimatum for the defenders of the besieged port city of Mariupol to give up. The Russian defence ministry’s warning came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced l the start of a