New Delhi: The National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) has strongly condemned the recent killing of Mohammad Zahiruddin in the Indian state of Bihar. Zahiruddin, 55, was a driver and a person with a disability after a Hindutva chauvinist organisations lynched him while
New Delhi: After the poll setback it suffered recently in Karnataka, where an overwhelming majority of Muslims have voted for the Congress party, the Bharatiya Janata Party is trying to woo the community in the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Narendra Modi in his
PATNA: Teachers in Patna were baton-charged after they protested against the Bihar government’s decision to allow those from other states to apply for jobs, reported PTI. On June 27, the Nitish Kumar-led government removed a condition according to which only those with domicile status in Bihar
SRINAGAR: Political experts and analysts have said that systematic human rights violations committed with impunity by Indian troops are daily witnessed in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). The political experts and analysts in their interviews and statements in Srinagar said human rights situation in
Srinagar: The Hindu Amarnath Yatra has become a militarized and communal lines in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) attained power in India and after Modi’s Indian government violated international laws by militarily and undemocratically snatched Articles 370 and
ATHENS: Survivors of a boat disaster that likely killed hundreds of migrants near Greece have shared how traffickers in North Africa crammed them into a dilapidated fishing trawler as they described the appalling conditions — without food or water — above and below deck. Others asserted
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council unanimously voted to end a decade-long peacekeeping mission in Mali after the West African country's military junta abruptly asked the 13,000-strong force to leave - a move the United States said was engineered by Russia's Wagner mercenary group. The
GENEVA: World's top human rights defenders were called out for their criminal silence over Kashmiri political prisoners, languishing in Indian jails over trumped up charges. Led by Altaf Hussain Wani Incharge UN Kashmir delegation Geneva, Fahim Kayani, president of Tehreek-e-Kashmir UK and Ch Babar Wariach President
NEW YORK: A Pakistan-born member of the House of Representatives of the US state of Connecticut, Maryam Khan, was attacked after she and her family attended Eid ul Adha prayers on Wednesday in the state’s capital city of Hartford, officials said. According to the Connecticut chapter
ISLAMABAD: Consistent with the provisions of the 2008 Agreement on Consular Access, the Government of Pakistan handed over a list of 308 Indian prisoners in Pakistan (42 civilian prisoners and 266 fishermen) to the High Commission of India in Islamabad. The Government of India also handed