New Delhi: The Indian Journalists Union (IJU) has urged the Government of India to grant asylum status to journalists and media workers in Afghanistan, who have been facing attacks, intimidation, and arbitrary detention under the Taliban rule. In its letter to external affairs minister S. Jaishankar,
Rajasthan: A nine-year-old student belonging to India's marginalised Dalit community was beaten to death allegedly by his upper-caste Hindu teacher for touching his water pot, Indian media reported. The child, identified as Indra Meghwal, used to study in the third grade at Saraswati Vidya Mandir in
Qaisar Mansoor India is not a secular democracy, but in the form of majority of Hindus, there is an imposition of tyranny, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and minorities are being subjected to atrocities in India due to Modi’s fascist policies. Minorities in India observed 15 August as ‘Black
Washington: Republicans stepped up calls for the release of an FBI affidavit showing the justification for its seizure of documents at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home amid reports of heightened threats against federal law enforcement personnel. A search warrant released last week after the unprecedented
Huwaizah Marshes: To feed and cool his buffaloes, Hashem Gassed must cross 10 kilometres (six miles) of sunburnt land in southern Iraq, where drought is devastating swathes of the mythical Mesopotamian Marshes. The reputed home of the biblical Garden of Eden, Iraq s swamplands have been
Kyiv: The risk of disaster at Europe s largest nuclear plant is "increasing every day", the mayor of the city where it is located told AFP, after Ukraine and Russia exchanged blame for fresh shelling around the facility. The Zaporizhzhia plant in southeastern Ukraine has been
Joseph Sany, Ph.D. America’s new strategy toward Africa, released this week amid Secretary of State Blinken’s visit to the continent, offers promise for a newly productive relationship, and not a moment too soon. Global crises such as food insecurity, pandemic diseases and climate change — and
Beijing: China said Monday it had organised fresh military drills around Taiwan, as a delegation of visiting United States lawmakers were set to meet the island’s leader just weeks after a similar trip by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi heightened fears of conflict. The unannounced two-day trip
United Nations: A year after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, prominent Afghan rights activist Sima Samar is still heartbroken over what happened to her country. Samar, a former minister of women’s affairs and the first chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, left Kabul in
Paris: Europe’s blistering summer may not be over yet but 2022 is already breaking records, with nearly 660,000 hectares ravaged since January, according to the EU’s satellite monitoring service. And while countries on the Mediterranean have normally been the main seats of fires in Europe, this