Juba: Tens of thousands of people sang, drummed and ululated as Pope Francis arrived in South Sudan for an unprecedented joint "pilgrimage of peace" with his Anglican and Scottish Presbyterian counterparts. The young African country broke away from Sudan to become independent in 2011 after decades
Dubai: A former senior official at Britain’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is taking the UK government to court test the legal protections for whistleblowers, amid concerns they are not sufficient to protect civil servants. Josie Stewart, who worked at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Philadelphia: President Joe Biden sounded like a candidate making his case for a second term as he rallied a raucous meeting of national Democrats who chanted, “Four more years!” The only thing missing was an official announcement — that’s not expected for at least several weeks. Speaking
Washington: The political uproar over a suspected Chinese spy balloon drifting over the United States did not just derail a planned visit to Beijing by the top US diplomat, it also threatens to upset attempts by both countries to steady an increasingly rocky relationship. The reaction
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti has said that the so-called anti-encroachment drive launched in Indian Administered Kashmir is a new weapon for the BJP’s Hindutva government to persecute the Kashmiri people and uproot them from their homes. Mehbooba Mufti talking to reporters in Srinagar
Washington: The Biden administration is in talks with Indian officials over a possible White House visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi later this year, according to a US official aware of the discussions and another person briefed on the matter. US President Joe Biden is eager
Amritsar: The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), the apex religious body of the Sikhs, has strongly opposed any move to introduce ballistic helmets for Sikh soldiers. A delegation of the SGPC met the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) chief to discuss the issue. The SGPC delegation members
New Delhi: The Supreme Court lamented that despite the court passing many orders, nobody is taking action against hate speeches. A bench of Justices K.M. Joseph, Aniruddha Bose and Hrishikesh Roy made the observation while a lawyer requested an urgent hearing against the Hindu Jan Akrosh
Mumbai: In November last year, the Telangana high court laid down three strict conditions while setting aside MLA Raja Singh’s preventive detention order. Singh, who has over 100 criminal cases against him, had spent 76 days in jail under preventive detention for stoking communal tensions
New Delhi: A Delhi court on February 4, discharged student leaders Sharjeel Imam, Safoora Zargar, Asif Iqbal Tanha, and eight others in connection with the violence which broke out near Jamia Millia University in Delhi in December 2019. Additional sessions judge Arul Varma of the Saket