Chicago: Mayoral candidate Raymond Lopez denounced Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s targeting of the Arab and Muslim community as “disgusting and tasteless,” and vowed to launch a probe into her actions which has cost hundreds of job losses and millions in income and tax revenue. Lopez added that
Cox’s Bazar: Bangladesh police detained 450 Rohingya celebrating Eidul Fitr on a beach, , in a further sign of growing intolerance towards the refugees. Bangladesh bans the 920,000 mostly Muslim Rohingya refugees from leaving camps surrounded by barbed wire in the southeast where they have been
Kabul: Taliban officials in Afghanistan's most progressive city have told driving instructors to stop issuing licenses to women, professionals from the sector told AFP. While Afghanistan is a deeply conservative and patriarchal country, it is not uncommon for women to drive in larger cities, particularly Herat
New Delhi: A total of 1,081 trips of 42 passenger trains have been cancelled so far been cancelled since last month to facilitate the movement of coal amid a power crisis in the country, PTI reported citing the Indian Railways. While 40 of these trains have
New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 death toll is almost 10 times its official tally, and the country is estimated to have had the highest number of COVID-19 deaths until December 2021 – 4.7 million. This is one of the conclusions of the much-anticipated WHO report on
Islamabad: Pakistan has categorically rejected the report of the so-called ‘delimitation commission’ for Indian Occupied Kashmir (IoK). The Indian Charge d’ Affairs was called to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and handed over a demarche conveying the Government of Pakistan’s categorical rejection of the report of
Gurugram: Claiming that he has been warned by “gau rakshaks” (cow vigilantes) not to enter the Haryana assembly, Congress MLA from Ferozpur Jhirka, Mamman Khan, said the state government will be responsible if anything happens to him or his family. Khan said that he has written
New Delhi: Award-wining Indian author, Arundhati Roy, has described the controversial bollywood movie ‘The Kashmir Files’ as a radioactive film. Arundhati Roy said this in an online interview with St. Louis Magazine. Arundhati Roy said, “When you’re looking at the film, it’s not about facts. It’s interesting
New Delhi: A Dalit man was beaten and then stabbed to death in Hyderabad on May 4 for allegedly marrying a Muslim woman against her family’s wishes, The News Minute has reported. The beating and murder took place in a busy road, after the couple –
New Delhi: The World Health Organisation’s report that Covid deaths in India were almost ten times the official figure may have been trashed by the government but has galvanised the Opposition Congress to question the pandemic data. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi tweeted: “47 lakh Indians died