New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday orally observed that Uttar Pradesh civic authorities should strictly follow legal procedures while demolishing alleged illegal structures, Bar and Bench reported. A bench comprising Justices AS Bopanna and Vikram Nath made the remark while hearing a petition by the

New Delhi: India must immediately end a “vicious” crackdown on Muslims who took to the streets to protest a ruling party official’s remarks about the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH), Amnesty International said Wednesday. Two demonstrators were killed and hundreds of others arrested last week in nationwide protests

Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a call Wednesday that Beijing would keep backing Moscow on "sovereignty and security", according to state media. China is "willing to continue to offer mutual support (to Russia) on issues concerning core interests and

Mogadishu: Arbay Mahad Qasim has already lost two children to a vicious drought, and now the Somali villager fears she could lose a third as her malnourished toddler Ifrah awaits treatment in a Mogadishu hospital. Barely out of her teens, Qasim is among dozens of weary

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has termed renewable energy as “the peace plan of the 21st century”, as he underscored the need for abandoning the funding of fossil fuel funding. The UN chief was speaking at the Sixth Austrian World Summit on the climate crisis,

Gaza: Four out of five children in Gaza suffer from emotional distress, Save the Children said Wednesday, 15 years after Israel slapped a strict blockade on the Palestinian territory. Israel imposed the measure in June 2007, as fighters of the Hamas movement took control of the

Rome: Pope Francis has taken a new series of swipes at Russia for its actions in Ukraine, saying its troops were brutal, cruel and ferocious and that the invasion violated a country’s right to self-determination. In the text of a conversation he had last month with

Tehran: Iran said it still believes that negotiations can succeed to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, despite a recent rebuke from the UN nuclear watchdog. Tehran last week condemned as "unconstructive" a move by the International Atomic Energy Agency to censure the country

The Hague: Western countries must send Ukraine more heavy weaponry as it battles Russia s advance in the east of the country, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said. "Yes, Ukraine should have more heavy weapons," Stoltenberg told a press conference in The Hague after meeting the

London: Britain’s first flight to take asylum seekers to Rwanda was pulled at the eleventh hour after the European Court of Human Rights issued injunctions to stop the deportation of the handful of migrants on board, a government source said. The British government’s plan to send