Tehran: Iran’s supreme leader vowed on Thursday that his country would ramp up development of its civilian nuclear program, as major world powers continued delicate talks in Vienna to revive Tehran’s landmark nuclear deal. In a televised speech, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the importance of nuclear
Berlin: Scientists and governments met to finalize a major U.N. report on how global warming disrupts people’s lives, their natural environment and the Earth itself. Don’t expect a flowery valentine to the planet: instead an activist group predicted “a nightmare painted in the dry language
Beijing: China on Thursday expressed serious concerns over India's ban of Chinese apps over security reasons, adding that it hopes India would treat all foreign investors, including Chinese firms, in a transparent, fair and non-discriminatory manner. "We hope India can take concrete measures to maintain the
Debasish Roy Chowdhury Indian leaders love to talk up Mahatma Gandhi when they travel abroad. It plays well to the popular notion of India as a land of peace and love, and boosts its moral authority as a responsible democracy on the world stage. So, Gandhi
London: Renowned scholar Professor Noam Chomsky said that Islamophobia has taken a “most lethal form” in India, turning some 250 million Indian Muslims into a “persecuted minority”. “The pathology of Islamophobia is growing throughout the West — it is taking its most lethal form in India,”
New Delhi: Indian tax officials conducted searches at the offices of Chinese tech giant Huawei, the firm said, days after New Delhi banned a host of Chinese apps over national security concerns. Tensions between New Delhi and Beijing have been running high since a deadly 2020
Doha: Several members of the Bahrain Parliament condemned the ban on hijab imposed in educational institutions in India’s of Karnataka state and called for mounting the international pressure on the Indian government to immediately end the discriminatory decision. The Bahrain Parliament unanimously approved an urgent proposal
Kuwait: The women’s wing of the Islamic Constitutional Movement staged a protest outside Indian Embassy in solidarity with the Muslim women in Karnataka. In the protest around 120 people have participated. They carried placards against the hijab row which is going on in Karnataka. Recently, the United
New Delhi: On New Year’s Eve, the Indian government wrote to states encouraging them to promote the use of COVID-19 home tests, especially for people who are experiencing symptoms, in a bid to avoid straining local health systems. During last year’s delta-driven surge, an explosion in
New Delhi: Congress leader Manmohan Singh on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party government of blaming former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for citizens’ problems, reported NDTV. “On one hand, people are facing problems of inflation and unemployment, on the other, the present government, in power for