Stockholm+50 is taking place 50 years after the original Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, which many consider the starting point of the modern environmental movement. The original conference wasn’t just about the environment, of course. It was about how harming the environment harms development
Srinagar: At least seven Indian soldiers were killed and 19 others injured in a road accident in the remote Ladakh region, close to the country's disputed border with China, police said. The world's two most populous nations redirected tens of thousands of additional troops into the
Islamabad: Youm-e-Takbeer is being observed today (Saturday) with national zeal and fervour to commemorate historic nuclear tests at Chagai on May 28, 1998. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has also released a national song in connection with the ‘Youm-e-Takbeer’. It was aimed at highlighting the
Birmingham: British Kashmiris held mass demonstrations to seek immediate roll back of the fake conviction of Kashmiri leader Muhammad Yasin Malik. Kashmiris held demonstrations in many cities to bring attention of the international community to fake trial of Mr Malik which concluded with life-time jail term
Davos: Foreign Minister, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, has appreciated Iran’s steadfast support for the Kashmir cause in a meeting with his Iranian counterpart. The Foreign Office in a statement said that Bilawal Bhutto Zardari met his Iranian counterpart, Dr Hossein Amir Abdollahian, on the sidelines of the
New Delhi: While climate change is worsening poverty and inequality in the country, policymakers have rarely considered it as a driver of human trafficking, said the authors of the research entitled “Climate change, migration and vulnerability to trafficking”. “Slow onset disasters like drought are taking a
New Delhi: An 18-year-old girl threatened her parents by attempting to put her hands in the middle of the blades of a ceiling fan to harm herself, Times of India reported. The girl had asked her parents to get her the latest model of an expensive
Ranchi A Muslim group, Idara-e-Shariah Jharkhand has called on political parties in the state to send one Muslim candidate to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian Parliament. The group stated that secular parties in the state have not sent any single Muslim candidate to
Qaisar Mansoor ‘Youm-e-Takbeer’ is being observed to commemorate historic nuclear tests Pakistan conducted on 28 May 1998. Pakistan became the first nuclear power in the Muslim world and seventh in the world. The nuclear explosions which were conducted in self-defence to respond India's aggression of nuclear tests
Islamabad: The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) expressed its deep concern over the pronouncement of the life sentence to one of the most prominent Kashmiri leaders, Yasin Malik, who had been leading a peaceful freedom struggle for many decades. Reiterating its solidarity with the people of