NEW DELHI: G20 leaders began to descend on New Delhi Friday, hoping to make progress on trade, climate and a host of other global problems despite the Chinese and Russian president’s skipping the summit. The G20 was conceived in the throes of the 2008 financial crisis
SRINAGAR: Posters have appeared in Srinagar, urging the G20 heads to ask Modi to stop the slow-motion massacre of people of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), and resolve the Kashmir dispute according to the United Nations (UN) resolutions. The posters, displayed by pro-freedom organizations,
LONDON: King Charles III succeeded his mother Queen Elizabeth II on the British throne after her death on Sept. 8 last year, becoming king of not just the United Kingdom, but also Australia, Canada, New Zealand and 11 other countries. Here are brief details of the
KYIV: Ukraine’s human rights commissioner has called for more international pressure on Moscow to help Kyiv bring home thousands of Ukrainian children who Kyiv says have been illegally taken to Russia during the war. Dmytro Lubinets spoke to Reuters in Kyiv days after several minors were
JERUSALEM: Four Roman-era swords, their wooden and leather hilts and scabbards and steel blades exquisitely preserved after 1,900 years in a desert cave, surfaced in a recent excavation by Israeli archaeologists near the Dead Sea, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Thursday. The cache of exceptionally intact
NEW DELHI: Authorities in Delhi are rounding up stray dogs and moving them to shelters ahead of the G20 summit this weekend. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has not directly linked the removal of stray dogs to the summit, stating that the canines are being
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that leaders of the G20 summit he is chairing this weekend must support developing nations to tackle climate change with more cash and by sharing technology. Against a backdrop of record-breaking temperatures and deadly heatwaves across the
SRINAGAR: The National Conference (NC) President of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Farooq Abdullah, has said that due to the anti-people policies, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has lost its political ground in Jammu as well as in Kashmir valley. Farooq Abdullah while addressing
LONDON: Britain is to ban Russian mercenary outfit the Wagner Group as a terrorist organization, media reports said, quoting Home Secretary Suella Braverman. The UK was set to make the Wagner Group a “proscribed” organization under anti-terror laws, putting it on a par with Islamic State
BIRMINGHAM: Life and legend of Shaheed Syed Ali Geelani was commemorated during a one-day conference in the United Kingdom to recall contributions of the veteran Kashmiri resistance leader. Hosted by Tehreek-e-Kashmir (TeK) UK, the speakers during the conference paid tributes to Geelani, who attained martyrdom on