New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that Hindi will now be made compulsory in all eight northeastern states up to Class 10. The home minister added that more attention must be paid to Hindi examinations. “Twenty-two thousand Hindi teachers have been recruited in the

Srinagar: Skillful hands of deaf, mute artist in Kashmir bring walnut wood to life. Yusuf Muran is last from generation of master woodcarvers in region despite being born with speech, hearing impairments In the narrow lanes of Srinagar, capital of the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir

Karnataka: Right-wing goons of Karnataka continue with violent acts of anti-Muslim hate, and moral policing on the streets. This time they waylaid a Muslim man and his Hindu woman companion when the two were travelling in an auto-rickshaw, in Dakshina Kannada district on Tuesday, April

Jakarta: The young woman from Myanmar and her family now live amid the tall grasses of a riverbank on the Thai border, trapped in limbo between a country that does not want them and a country whose military could kill them. Like thousands of others fleeing

Severodonetsk: Desperate evacuation attempts from eastern Ukraine were under way Thursday as authorities warned of an imminent Russian offensive, following the devastation around Kyiv that has shocked the world. Russian troops have been withdrawing from around the capital and Ukraine’s north, leaving a trail of destruction,

Vatican City: Pope Francis condemned "the massacre of Bucha" and kissed a Ukrainian flag sent from the town where tied bodies shot at close range littered the streets after Russian troops withdrew and bodies poked out of a mass grave at a church. The deaths in

London: Sultana Tafadar, the UK’s first hijab-wearing criminal barrister, who also became the first hijab-wearer from the Criminal Bar to be appointed Queen’s Counsel, aims to set an example for women on pursuing their dreams and reaching goals. Tafadar, who reached the highest mark of excellence

Washington: The United States has warned India of "significant and long-term" consequences if the latter aligns itself with Russia, as US officials expressed “disappointment” with some of New Delhi’s reactions to the Ukraine invasion, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser. Director of

Kampala: Widespread abuses against civilians in the western part of Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have charged in a new report. The crimes were perpetrated by security officials and civilian authorities from the

Washington: US congresswoman Ilhan Omar pressed one of President Joe Biden's most senior diplomats on US support for India given what she said is a long-standing campaign against the country's Muslim minority. Omar, who is Muslim, directly asked Wendy Sherman, Biden's deputy secretary of state, how