New Delhi: Funds deposited by Indian nationals and firms in Swiss banks rose to a 14-year-high of 3.83 billion Swiss francs (over Rs 30,500 crore) in 2021, PTI reported, citing the annual data from Switzerland’s central bank. This is the second consecutive year that funds deposited
London: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhary led a delegation of Kashmiri diaspora and their allies to the UK Prime Minister’s Office apprising the British government of situation in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIoJK). The delegation submitted a petition in
New Delhi: One person died and nearly 10 were injured in Telangana’s Secunderabad Friday in the violent protests against Agnipath, the Centre’s short-term recruitment scheme for the Armed Forces. An official of the South Central Railway (SCR) said there was an incident of firing to control
New Delhi: The Delhi Police Special Cell has arrested Bhim Sena chief Nawab Satpal Tanwar for threatening BJP leader Nupur Sharma, who was at the centre of a storm for her alleged insulting remarks on Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). According to the Indian Express, Tanwar was arrested
Chicago: President Joe Biden needs to find the “will” to do the right thing and push Israelis and Palestinians together to achieve peace, one of his strongest supporters in Congress told Arab News. Congresswoman Marie Newman, a Democrat, said the issue of Palestine and Israel is
Beirut: US coalition forces said they captured a senior Daesh group bomb maker in an airborne operation before dawn Thursday in northern Syria. A war monitor and AFP correspondents said helicopters touched down for only a few minutes in a village in an area controlled by
United Nations: Men must stop excluding women from peace talks around the world, UN chief Antonio Guterres said, warning that in conflicts such as Russia s invasion of Ukraine the situation is actually "going backwards." The UN secretary-general said the lack of female representation in such
New York: John Hinckley, who wounded then US President Ronald Reagan and three others in a 1981 assassination attempt, was released without conditions in compliance with a federal judge's order. He had received full-time conditional release in 2016 after 30 years in a psychiatric hospital in
Washington: The street in front of Saudi Arabia's embassy in Washington has been renamed for Jamal Khashoggi as activists vowed never to forget the slain journalist despite President Joe Biden's planned visit to the kingdom. The capital's local government changed signs on one block in front
Brussels: The European Commission launched new legal action against Britain accusing London of putting peace in Northern Ireland at risk by trying to overhaul the post-Brexit trade deal. “The UK government tabled legislation confirming its intention to unilaterally break international law,” EU commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic