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A 1982 report published by the Central Intelligence Agency read that India has been pursuing a foreign policy of maintaining hegemony over its neighbors since becoming an independent state in 1947. The report also claimed that the effects of the Indian military have been well-established
Dhaka: In view of rising incidents of hate crimes against the Muslims in India and the Narendra Modi government’s biased policies towards minorities, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina warned New Delhi that these incidents could affect the Hindu community in her country. The statement from Sheikh
Imran Malik Geopolitics has never been so dynamic as it is today. The world is in the throes of a transition from a unipolar to a bi/multipolar mode. The US, arguably still the sole superpower of the world, feels threatened by China’s meteoric rise. This rivalry
New Delhi: The pin-drop silence of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in question after the seizure of 3,000 kilogrammes of heroin worth INR210 billion ($3 billion) at the Mundra Port in Gujarat, operated by his friend and financier Gautam Adani. In the biggest-ever single drug
Islamabad: The Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC) of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has strongly condemned the rising wave of Islamophobia, hate speech and hate crimes motivated by the Hindu supremacist Hindutva ideology in India with the tacit complicity of the BJP- led
New York: Pakistan has urged the UN human rights chief to hold India accountable for its “systematic” violations in occupied Jammu and Kashmir, saying failure to do so would further erode the credibility of her office. During an interactive dialogue with the UN High Commissioner for
ISLAMABAD: Strangely, what never gets traction is the complicity of Western powers and India in the enlargement of poppy plantations in the war-ravaged Afghanistan. During the period of US-NATO supported Afghan govts the enlargement of poppy plantations in the war-ravage Afghanistan was carried out on exponential
Beijing: A Chinese journalist has posted a video online that he suggested showed China’s troops escorting members of the Indian armed forces, following disputed reports that India detained Chinese soldiers during the border stand-off. A journalist from nationalistic tabloid Global Times posted the video on Twitter
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi attacked the BJP government over Lakhimpur Kheri violence in which Union Minister Ajay Mishra’s son has been arrested, and said the treatment meted out to protesting farmers by the BJP government reflects their mindset. Addressing Congress Working Committee (CWC) –
London: The Conservative MP Sir David Amess has been stabbed multiple times while holding a constituency surgery, his office and police have said. A man has been arrested. The veteran MP, who has represented Southend West in Essex since 1983, was attacked at Belfairs Methodist church
Washington DC: The United States is officially a member of the controversial United Nations Human Rights Council again, reversing former President Donald Trump's withdrawal three years ago. The US was elected in an uncontested ballot of member countries by the UN General Assembly. President Joe Biden
London: A COVID-19 testing laboratory in central England has been suspended over concern that it has been incorrectly giving negative PCR test results to people who are infected, the UK Health Security Agency (UKSHA) said on Friday. NHS Test and Trace launched an investigation into a