Colombo: Sri Lankan police imposed a curfew on Monday after clashes between rival political camps, as anger builds over the island's worst economic crisis since independence. Months of blackouts and dire shortages of food, fuel and medicines have caused widespread suffering across the South Asian island
Texas: In the course of a single year, University of Maine climate scientist Jacquelyn Gill lost both her mother and her stepfather. She struggled with infertility, then during research in the Arctic, she developed embolisms in both lungs, was transferred to an intensive care unit
Zaporizhzhia: As many as 60 people are feared to have been killed when a bomb struck a village school in eastern Ukraine, the regional governor said while Russian forces continued shelling the last holdout of Ukrainian resistance in the ruined southeastern port of Mariupol. Luhansk region
Islamabad: When he learned about his nomination for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, Pakistani philanthropist Dr. Amjad Saqib said he had never been motivated by awards but hoped the news could present a good image of his country. The founder of Pakistan’s largest interest-free microfinance organization
Brescia, Italy: A record-breaking number of Sikhs turned up for the Khalistan Referendum voting campaign for the creation of an independent Khalistan state and secession of Punjab from India. According to various estimates – including the local intelligence assessment – more than 40,000 Sikh men and
Qaisar Mansoor When International Mother’s Day is being observed today across the world, thousands of Kashmiri women continue to wait for the return of their sons subjected to enforced disappearance in custody by Indian troops in occupied Kashmir. According to a report released on International Mother’s Day,
Islamabad: India was perpetually violating human rights in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and Pir Dastgeer massacre of May 8, 1991, was a reminder of the barbarity of Indian security forces. Dastgeer Sahib is a 200-year-old shrine situated in Khanyar. The shrine is famous for
Mumbai: Sitting in an office lined with books overlooking a giant prayer hall, Mohammed Ashfaq Kazi, the main preacher at the largest mosque in Mumbai, checked a decibel meter attached to the loudspeakers before he gave the call to worship. "The volume of our azaan (call
New Delhi: Khalistan flags were found tied on the main gate and slogans scrawled on the walls of the Himachal Pradesh legislative assembly complex, police said on Sunday, May 8. The Himachal Pradesh Police booked Sikhs for Justice leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun under the Unlawful
Qaisar Mansoor India holds 2+2 dialogue with four of its strategic partners- US, Russia, Australia and Japan. The Dialogue was preceded by a virtual meeting between Modi and Biden. The dialogue was attended by India’s external affairs and defence ministers, Jaishankar and Rajnath Singh and Secretary