Birmingham: Kashmiri diaspora members said if seeking independence from the illegal military occupation of India is a crime then the Kashmiris are ready to commit this crime again and again. Kashmiri diaspora leader Fahim Kayani, during a pro-freedom address in the UK, criticised the fascist Indian

Mumbai: A court case started by five Hindu women in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's political constituency has become the latest battleground in India between the Hindu majority and minority Muslims over access to historically contested religious sites. The women, backed by an influential hardline Hindu group

Muktsar: Taking cognisance of a video where a man was allegedly seen stripping and thrashing a 12-year-old Dalit boy in Punjab, the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC), issued a notice to the state. The incident took place in Malout town of Muktsar district. According to the

New York: “When war is waged, people go hungry,” Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council during a debate on conflict and food security chaired by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Some 60 per cent of the world’s undernourished people live in areas affected by

Colombo: Sri Lanka's prime minister has warned of a food shortage as the island nation battles a devastating economic crisis and vowed the government will buy enough fertiliser for the next planting season to boost harvests. A decision in April last year by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa

London: British police said that they had ended their investigation into COVID-19 lockdown parties held at Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Downing Street office, saying they had issued a total of 126 fines. “Our investigation was thorough and impartial and was completed as quickly as we could,

Seoul: North Korea is poised to conduct a nuclear test, Seoul and Washington said, with the United States warning it could come as President Joe Biden visits South Korea this week. Touted as proof of the US "pivot" to Asia, Biden’s first trip as president to

Kabul: Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have asked television broadcasters to ensure that female presenters on local stations cover their faces when on air, an official said on Friday. The move comes days after authorities ordered women to cover their faces in public, a return to a

Islamabad: Pakistan rejected what India has described as ‘concerns’ about the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) passing through disputed territory, saying Islamabad had 'irrefutable evidence' of New Delhi’s campaign to sabotage the scheme India has perpetually been involved in false propaganda against CPEC. On 12 May, Indian

  New Delhi: Indian cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu was sentenced to a year in jail by the country's apex court in a 1988 "road rage" case in which one person had lost his life, according to Indian media. NDTV stated that the 58-year-old would have to surrender

Islamabad: The Indian Charge d’ Affaires (Cd’A) was called to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and handed over a demarche conveying Pakistan’s strong condemnation on the framing of fabricated charges against Hurriyat leader Muhammad Yasin Malik, who is currently imprisoned at Tihar jail by the