New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai informed the Lok Sabha that about 3,400 communal riot cases were reported in the country between 2016 and 2020. During the same time period, 2.76 lakh rioting instances were reported in the country, according to the

Agartala: A 26-year-old Muslim, Litan Miah, was lynched by a Hindutva mob on Tuesday morning in Sepahijala district of the Indian state of Tripura. The Hindu mob claimed that Miah, a resident of Tarapukur area of the district, alleged that he went to the village to

Bengaluru: A Muslim exam invigilator, Noor Fahima, has been suspended for wearing hijab during the SSLC (Secondary School Leaving Certificate) exams in the Indian state of Karnataka. She was the invigilator at the KTSV School in Bengaluru. Students have been banned from wearing hijab in schools

New Delhi: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board has moved the Supreme Court against Karnataka High Court order which dismissed pleas against the ban on Hijab in educational institutes. In the petition filed through advocate MR Shamshad, the petitioners All India Muslim Personal Law Board

Amritsar: Two weeks after a Dalit youth was beaten and hung upside down in Kotla Sultan Singh village in Amritsar, Punjab, the State Commission for Scheduled Castes ordered the police to arrest culprits and report their findings by April 6, 2022, reported Hindustani 24. According

Allahabad: Months after they were arrested for allegedly cheering for the Pakistani cricket team after it beat India at the T20 World Cup, Altaf Shaikh, Shaukat Ahmed Ghani, and Arshid Yusuf, all students from Kashmir, will finally walk free. They were awarded bail by Allahabad

Islamabad: Nearly 90 million people in Asia-Pacific region are likely to have been pushed into extreme poverty, and over 150m and 170m live on less than $3.20 and $5.50 a day, respectively, due to the pandemic’s adverse impacts on livelihoods — by way of falling

ISTANBUL/KYIV OUTSKIRTS/MARIUPOL: Ukrainian and Russian negotiators met in Turkey on Tuesday for the first face-to-face talks in nearly three weeks, with Ukraine seeking a cease-fire without compromising on territory or sovereignty as its forces have pushed Russians back from Kyiv. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan welcomed delegations

Washington: The Army would fall below 1 million soldiers for the first time in two decades under a new budget proposal as leaders struggle with recruitment in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic. The active-duty Army would drop from the 485,000 soldiers Congress authorized for this

Johannesburg: Amnesty International on Tuesday slammed "war crimes" in Ukraine, as the civilian toll continues to rise after Russia s invasion, likening the situation to the Syrian war. "What is happening in Ukraine is a repetition of what we have seen in Syria," Agnes Callamard, secretary