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Roorkee Uttarakhand: Dada Jalalpur is a hamlet in Roorkee’s Bhagwanpur region. On April 16, violence broke out here after a Hanuman Jayanti ‘shobha yatra’ or procession. The lanes of the hamlet are narrow, but they clearly separate ‘Hindu’ areas from ‘Muslim’ ones. The former is marked
Riyadh: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center and the UN University for Peace signed a wide-ranging cooperation program. The supervisor general of KSrelief, Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, and the permanent observer of UN University for Peace, David Fernández Puyana, signed the program in Riyadh. The deal
Colombo, Sri Lanka: Sri Lankans protesting for days near the president’s office criticized a lack of progress in finding those responsible for the deaths of more than 260 people in Daesh-inspired bombings on Easter Sunday three years ago, piling pressure on the government already embroiled
Lviv: Five “powerful” Russian missiles hit Lviv on Monday, a city in the west of the Ukraine that has so far been spared much of the fighting since Russia invaded its pro-Western neighbour nearly two months ago, the city's mayor said. A Lviv resident told AFP
Johannesburg: The World Health Organization (WHO) said that up to 65% of people in Africa have been infected with the coronavirus and estimates the number of actual cases may have been nearly 100 times more than those reported. In a new analysis released Thursday, the U.N.
Seoul: Kim Jong Un supervised the test-firing of a new guided weapons system to improve North Korea’s “tactical nukes”, state media said on Sunday, capping days of celebrations surrounding the birthday of the country’s founding leader. The launch was the latest in an unprecedented blitz of
Qaisar Mansoor Ram Navami festivities became a platform for Hindutva organizations to flex their muscles as the Hindu community celebrated the birthday of the god Ram. Several civil society organizations and activists expressed concern over the change in character of Ram Navami festivities in the State.
Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has informed his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi of seeking peaceful ties with India, sources told media. PM Shehbaz, who was sworn in earlier this week, had conveyed Pakistan’s intention of desiring peaceful ties with India in a letter to PM Modi.
Hyderabad: All India Congress Committee (AICC) spokesperson Dasoju Srravan slammed the BJP-led Central government for cheating people of the country in the name of ‘Make in India’ and termed it as ‘Fake in India’. Exposing the irregularities in the electric vehicles (EV) manufacturing subsidy scheme (EV
Madhya Pradesh: Anti-Muslim violence have erupted in India during the Hindu festival of Ram Navami as scores of the extremist Hindus attacked mosques and set on fire homes of Muslims, which prompted police to impose curfew in several Indian states. Authorities in central Madhya Pradesh state
Srinagar: The US State Department in its report has painted a grim picture of human rights of Muslims in India and in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The State Department in the chapter on India in the “2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices” released
New Delhi: The Supreme Court set aside the bail granted to Ashish Mishra, the prime accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case and the son of Union minister Ajay Mishra, Bar and Bench reported. Ashish Mishra was granted bail by the Allahabad High Court on February