New Delhi: As hatred against Muslims takes centre stage in the BJP-ruled Karnataka, yet again the state capital, Bengaluru, has become witness to another round of abuses hurled at the minority community by a Hindutva outfit recently. On May 8, speakers at Bengaluru District Hindu Rashtra
Srinagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has struggled to strengthen its hold over the Muslim-majority region, where a large number of people do not want to be part of India. Half a million soldiers are stationed in the occupied territory and a 2019 crackdown has seen
Mumbai: The security in and around the grave of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in Khuldabad in the Indian state of Maharashtra was tightened following calls by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) to ‘uproot’ it. While MNS activist Gajanan Kale questioned the need for
Bihar: A 14-year-old girl in India's Bihar was allegedly thrown in front of a speeding vehicle when she resisted rape attempts by four boys, The Hindustan Times reported. The girl reported that on Monday evening, in a village in Bihar’s West Champaran district, she had left
Jahnavi Sen There is no point in happy endings just for the sake of them, documentary filmmaker Sandeep Ravindranath believes. And this belief comes out starkly in his latest short on Kashmir, which also serves as a music video for a Tamil protest rock song. “The only
New Delhi: In the latest act of political vendetta against the Kashmiri Hurriyat leaders, a court of India’s notorious National Investigation Agency (NIA) officially convicted the illegally detained Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik, in a false case registered against him. According to
New Delhi: A new study blames pollution of all types for 9 million deaths a year globally, with the death toll attributed to dirty air from cars, trucks and industry rising 55 percent since 2000. That increase is offset by fewer pollution deaths from primitive indoor
Washington: An investigation into a 2019 strike by US forces in Syria that killed numerous civilians found no violations of policy or wanton negligence, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The internal US Army investigation focused on an operation by a special US force operating in Syria which
Kyiv: Hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers who held off Russian fighters at the besieged Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol have surrendered, Moscow said Tuesday, as Kyiv called for an immediate prisoner swap. The strategic port city fell to Russian forces last month, but a relentless Ukrainian military unit
Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) said it was coordinating with the UK and other European health officials after British authorities detected at least seven cases of monkeypox this month. Health officials have noted some of these infections may be through sexual contact — in this