New Delhi: Human rights groups and Muslim representatives have expressed outrage over the release of 11 men serving life sentences for gang rape and murder during the 2002 Gujarat riots that killed over 1,000 people, the majority of whom were Muslims. On March 3, 2002, Bilkis
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday, August 18 said she has asked National Conference (NC) leader Farooq Abdullah to convene an all-party meeting of Jammu and Kashmir to decide the future course of action with regard to election commission allowing outsiders
Assam: Several students’ organisations in the northeastern states staged demonstration in all the state capitals of the region, reiterating their demand to scrap the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). They also demanded that the Inner Line Permit (ILP) system be introduced in the entire region. President of
Kochi: New Delhi and Kolkata are the most polluted cities in the world. According to the latest State of Global Air report on air quality and health in cities published on August 17, these cities rank the highest when it comes to levels of fine
Bhopal: Nearly a hundred men associated with Hindutva groups allegedly attacked and plundered the houses of three Muslim families in Madhya Pradesh after a Muslim man who was their relative reportedly made an objectionable social media post against a Hindu deity. The post was allegedly made
Kharkiv, Ukraine: Viktor Solovyanenko has gone out as little as possible since Russia invaded Ukraine because he fears stepping on unexploded munitions or sharp objects. He is part of a small community of visually impaired people in the eastern city of Kharkiv who can hear the
London: Britain s largest water provider on Wednesday became the latest UK supplier to announce restrictions on usage as swathes of England grapple with a punishing drought. Thames Water, which supplies 15 million people in London and some surrounding counties, said the ban on hoses would
Washington DC: US space agency NASA's Lucy's science team has discovered a satellite around the smallest of the mission's targets asteroids, Polymele. With occultation data, the team analyzed that the satellite was 3 miles (5 km) in diameter, orbiting Polymele, which is itself around 17 miles
Washington: President Joe Biden signed Democrats’ landmark climate change and health care bill into law, delivering what he has called the “final piece” of his pared-down domestic agenda, as he aims to boost his party’s standing with voters less than three months before the midterm
Berlin: Germany has deployed troops with the European Union’s peacekeeping mission in Bosnia for the first time in a decade as concerns mount instability from the Ukraine war could spread to the Western Balkans. Earlier, the first German troops to return to the country were greeted