New Delhi: Three persons belonging to the Scheduled Caste Dalit community have said that they were brutally thrashed by a wine shop owner, who also used cast slurs against them, but the Delhi Police did not lodge a case under the SC/ST Act. The matter has
New Delhi: A 13-year-old girl in India was sold by her mother to a 35-year-old man, who then allegedly raped her, the Hindustan Times reported. Reportedly, the mother had to pay off a debt of INR 500,000, which is why she sold her daughter. The police reported
New Delhi: The Indian authorities have decided not to allow Shab-e-Qadr and Jumat-ul-Vida congregational prayers at the historic Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, news agency PTI reported. The Kashmiri leaders have denounced the decision which was conveyed to the Anjuman Auqaf Jamia Masjid which is the
Murad Banaji The WHO has reportedly estimated that India could have had four million excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic. This would make India the country with the highest number of pandemic deaths in the world by far – with around a quarter of the global
Washington: The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and US Agency for International Development (USAID) will together contribute nearly $700 million to international food aid efforts in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the agencies said on Thursday. The money will go to emergency food operations
Stockholm: Sweden has failed to integrate the vast numbers of immigrants it has taken in over the past two decades, leading to parallel societies and gang violence, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Thursday, as she launched a series of initiatives to combat organized crime. Many
London: Ukraine s fate is hanging in the balance and its allies must brace for the long haul and "ramp up" military production including tanks and planes to help, Britain s foreign minister said. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss also warned that China must play by international
ISLAMABAD: The Global Education Monitoring Report, 2022, released by Unesco estimates that globally 771 million adults lacked basic literacy skills in 2020, among which 98 million were aged 15 to 24. The annual gender report of the UN’s specialised agency says females accounted for 63 per
Paris: Measles cases have surged by nearly 80 percent worldwide this year, the UN said on Thursday, warning that the rise of the “canary in a coal mine” illness indicates that outbreaks of other diseases are likely on the way. The coronavirus pandemic has interrupted vaccination
New Delhi: More than 100 Indian former civil servants have written an open letter to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, calling for an end to politics of hate practiced assiduously by governments under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The former bureaucrats said in this