Bangkok: Thailand hopes to boost its tourism revenue to between 600 billion-700 billion baht ($16 billion-$19 billion) by year-end, by targeting high-spending groups like Indian wedding parties and honeymooners, a senior tourism official said. Famous for its white-sand beaches and nightlife, Thailand hopes to tap into
New Delhi: The British ambassador to India, Alex Ellis, took to Twitter to announce that the United Kingdom (UK) has started issuing priority and super priority visas to students from India. "Update for Indian students travelling to the United Kingdom -- Great Britain has now made
New York: The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), a sexual and reproductive health agency, has highlighted the affliction of Pakistani women caused by the catastrophic floods, saying that over half a million pregnant women in the flood-hit areas are in dire need of maternal health
Birmingham: The Kashmiri diaspora has proposed to Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government to declare September 1 as ‘Youm-e-Baba-i-Hurriyat’ or ‘Day of Father of Freedom Movement’ in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIoJK) in honor of Shaheed Syed Ali Geelani. In a letter addressed to
Salem Jaffer Baobaid Hodeidah project coordinator for Islamic Relief For the last few nights, gunfire has woken me up around midnight and raged on until dawn. Being from Yemen, where war has gone on for 44 months, and living in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah,
New Delhi: There has been an increase of 15.3 per cent in crime against women in 2021 as compared to a year ago, with the number of incidents of such crimes per 1 lakh population also witnessing a rise of 8 per cent across India,
Visakhapatnam: Farmer suicides in Indian state of Andhra Pradesh increased by over 19 per cent in 2021 compared to the previous year, as per the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report. The state stood in third place in farmer suicides in the country, the third
Ranchi: Bharatiya Janata Party official Seema Patra was on Wednesday arrested in Ranchi for allegedly torturing and confining her domestic worker, ANI reported. A first information report against her has been filed at Ranchi’s Argora police station. Videos of the household worker, Sunita, accusing Patra of
Special Correspondent Syed Ali Shah Geelani (29 September 1929 – 1 September 2021) was a Kashmiri pro-Pakistani leader. He was regarded as the father of the Kashmiri indigenous freedom movement. Syed Ali Gilani’s long and precarious journey for the legitimate cause of Kashmiris started well before
New Delhi: As many as four women who attended the double puncture laparoscopy sterilisation camp at a government hospital in Telangana’s Ranga Reddy district have succumbed to various complications arising out the surgery. In all, 34 women had undergone sterilisation at the Community Health Centre (CHC),