Washington: US President Joe Biden wielded his clemency powers for the first time, announcing pardons for three people, including the first Black man to serve in the White House’s Secret Service detail. Biden also announced the commutation of sentences for 75 others, mainly going to those
Yangoon: A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail on Wednesday after finding her guilty in the first of 11 corruption cases against her, a source with knowledge of the proceedings said. The Nobel laureate and figurehead
London: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has taken her daughter to school for the first time since being freed from detention in Iran last month. The British-Iranian dual national had regularly told the media how she had dreamed of taking her daughter Gabriella on the school run, a typical
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged all state heads on Wednesday to remain alert as “the threat of Covid-19 was not fully gone”. Lauding all-round efforts that had ensured 96 per cent of Indians were vaccinated, Modi said the concentration should now be on children.
Washington: Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought to defend ongoing negotiations with Iran to revive the 2015 nuclear deal as talks face an apparent impasse. Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the top diplomat emphasized that former US President Donald Trump's "maximum pressure campaign" and
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan slammed India's University Grants Commission for advising its students against travelling to Pakistan for the purpose of seeking higher education and sought a "clarification" from the Indian government over the matter. The statement from the Foreign Office comes in the wake of a notice
Dehradun: Prohibitory orders under CRPC section 144 have been enforced in Dada Jalalpur village near Uttarakhand’s Roorkee where a ‘Hindu Mahapanchayat’ was scheduled to be held and 33 people associated with the event have been detained, officials said. The village was witness to communal tension recently
United Nations: Against the backdrop of conflicts, post-pandemic shocks and climate change, Pakistan called for “generous” political and economic support for the people living under foreign occupation like those in Palestine and Jammu and Kashmir. “For developing countries, a first priority is poverty reduction, especially in
New Delhi: Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla has sought details from the Maharashtra government within 24 hours on the arrest of independent MP Navneet Rana in Mumbai, following allegations made by the Amravati lawmaker against the state police over “inhuman treatment” after her arrest two
New Delhi: The state of religious freedom in India “significantly worsened” last year, a United States panel has said, calling for targeted sanctions against the country over alleged abuses. In its annual report, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) urged the State Department for