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Kabul: A couple of days after US special representative for Afghanistan Thomas West's remarks on girls' education in Afghanistan, officials of the Afghan ministry of education promised to reopen schools for all age groups, both girls and boys, at the start of the new academic
Copenhagen: The Omicron variant has moved the Covid-19 pandemic into a new phase and could bring it to an end in Europe, the WHO Europe director said. "It s plausible that the region is moving towards a kind of pandemic endgame," Hans Kluge told AFP in
Qaisar Mansoor In today’s India, minorities are facing the worst kind of persecution as intolerance has become a basic hallmark of Modi’s regime. Muslims are beaten up in day’s light, Sikhs are protesting on the roads while Christians are also facing severe persecution. In the Hindutva
Damascus: Three Syrian children have died, with hundreds of thousands of people "at great risk" following heavy winter storms in Syria and neighboring countries, according to humanitarian organization CARE. CARE warne that the onslaught of heavy winter storms is exacerbating the living situation of internally displaced
P. Raman Politicisation of the Indian Army is no more a matter of dispute. The debate now is more on the desirability or otherwise of some amount of politicisation. The issue was triggered by the late chief of defence staff Bipin Rawat’s political activism. Commentators, including
New Delhi: India on Monday registered 3,06,064 new Covid-19 cases, taking the overall count in the country to 3,95,43,328. The new cases on Monday were 8.23% lower than Sunday’s figure of 3,33,533 cases. The positivity rate, however, increased to 20.75% from 17.78% on Sunday. The country’s active
New Delhi: A US government organisation that monitors international religious freedom has recommended that India be designated as a “country of particular concern” for the second consecutive year. The chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), Gayle Manchin, said that the past
Qaisar Mansoor Under Bharatiya Janata Party’s leadership, India has become one of the most dangerous country for minorities in the world. Human Rights Watch in its annual report has criticized BJP-led government in India for adopting discriminatory policies against minority communities, including Muslims. Minorities are being persecuted
Srinagar: In Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), a region mostly off-limits to foreign reporters and rife with communications blackouts and curfews, local journalists remained one of the few reliable sources of information, even as they operated under difficult conditions. According to an article of
Srinagar: January 24 is being marked as the International Day of Education. The day aims to acknowledge the role education plays in peace and development. But unfortunately, India has deprived Kashmiri students of their right to education even the world observed International Day of Education. Over
New Delhi: The National Council of Women Leaders (NCWL), a civil rights group in India, has compiled what it has called landmark cases of caste-based sexual violence” between 1985 and 2020. Compiling 12 cases from 10 States, the 15-page report, released by NCWL says, the effort
Muhammad Shoaib Khan After partition in subcontinent, two nations got independence one was Pakistan and other was India. With independence and Partition the larger, western, portion of Punjab was allocated to Pakistan, now a Muslim state. In the violent upheavals that followed, hundreds of thousands of Punjabis were killed,