MANDVI, India: Strong winds, heavy rain and high tides lashed India's Gujarat coast late on Thursday as cyclone Biparjoy made landfall after authorities there and in neighbouring Pakistan had evacuated more than 180,000 people to safety. Deserted coastal towns were battered in the dark in parts
GUWAHATI, India: A federal Indian minister's house was set on fire by a mob in the remote northeastern state of Manipur, which has been hit by clashes between members of rival ethnic groups for over a month, officials said on Friday. Junior foreign minister R. K.
MANIPUR: At least nine people were shot dead in the remote northeast Indian state of Manipur, officials said -- the latest incident in weeks of violence sparked by long-standing ethnic tensions. Manipur saw days of deadly clashes in May, prompted by a dispute over access to
United Nations: Pakistan has told the UN General Assembly that India, whose prime minister is visiting the US later this month, was targeting Indian Muslims, Christians, as also Muslims of occupied Kashmir, and called for an end to their harsh suppression. Ambassador Munir Akram in a
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday strongly condemned India for confiscating the properties of Kashmiri activists and human rights defenders in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). “We are concerned about the recurring acts of confiscation of properties by India in IIOJK,” the Foreign Office spokesperson
NEW DELHI: Indian police said Thursday they had charged the country's wrestling federation president with sexual harassment and stalking, following a protest by the sport's top figures demanding his arrest. In April, a group of wrestlers began a sit-in in the capital New Delhi to demand
Srinagar: Political experts and analysts in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir have said that India is continuously flouting all international laws and conventions in the territory with impunity. The political experts and analysts in their interviews and statements in Srinagar said the people of occupied
New Delhi: India's western states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa and other coastal regions are on alert after meteorologists warned that a cyclonic storm over the Arabian sea would intensify over the next 24 hours. Authorities have told fishing communities to halt operations for the next five
New Delhi: An Indian delegation comprising members of Jainism community on Wednesday thanked Pakistan for hosting several sites of religious significance for their faith. Pakistan facilitates religious tourism to promote the message of peace, harmony and understandings among all religions. Under the vision, the Pakistan government
New Delhi: Indian citizens have suffered violations of their personal data as their private information was available on the messaging platform Telegram, including the details of high-profile legislators of the country, with Trinamool Congress claiming that the Modi government is unaware of this big data