NEW DELHI: As Hindu devotees prepare to inaugurate a grand temple to one of their holiest deities, India's minority Muslims plan to begin building a new mosque in the same city later this year, hoping to make a fresh start after a bloody, decades-long dispute. Haji
LONDON: A leading pro-Khalistan activist in Italy has claimed that he has received a direct threat to kill from the Indian state agents asking him to stop his political activities for Khalistan or face consequences. Gurpal Singh, who is Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) coordinator in Italy
OTTAWA: The number of study permits Canada issued to Indian students fell sharply late last year after India ejected Canadian diplomats who would process the permits and fewer Indian students applied due to a diplomatic dispute over the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in
MALE: The Maldives has called for India to withdraw troops from its territory by March 15, an official said, in a step that will further strain ties between the South Asian neighbours. President Mohamed Muizzu won election last year on a pledge to end the Maldives'
NEW DELHI: India’s main opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi set off on a 6,700 km “Unite India” march across the nation in an attempt to challenge the electoral hold of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, months before the national polls get underway. India, the world’s
NEW DELHI: India’s most populous state has stopped paying some 21,000 teachers of subjects including mathematics and science in Muslim religious schools, or madrasas, an official said on Thursday, and they could lose their jobs altogether. The teachers work at madrasas in Uttar Pradesh, ruled by
MALE: Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu suspended three deputy ministers for making “derogatory remarks” against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the government said. Muizzu, who won September elections on promises that included removing a small contingent of Indian troops operating maritime aircraft from his archipelago, banned the
NEW DELHI: Indian Navy commandos have boarded a hijacked Liberian-flagged vessel in the Arabian Sea and are now carrying out "sanitisation" operations, the navy said on Friday, without elaborating. An Indian Navy warship intercepted the MV Lila Norfolk on Friday afternoon, less than a day after
NEW DELHI: News website The Wire’s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan and South Asia Editor of the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Anand Mangnale were among journalists recently targeted using the Pegasus spyware, an investigation by human rights organisation Amnesty International and The Washington Post
UITED NATIONS: Pakistan has urged the world community to take steps to end the foreign occupation and “brutal suppression” of the people in Kashmir and in Palestine, saying self-determination is their fundamental right. In a message marking the ‘Right to Self-Determination Day’, Ambassador Munir Akram