SRINAGAR: In another low, Indian police have arrested seven Kashmiri students under the draconian anti-terror law for celebrating the country’s defeat in World Cup finals and raising pro-Pakistan slogans in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). According to Indian media reports, the seven students of
SILKYARA, India: Indian rescuers led by “rat miners” drilled through rocks and debris on Tuesday to reach 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in the Himalayas for 17 days. The process of pulling out the 41 low-wage workers from India’s poorest states, one at
LONDON: Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the general counsel of Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) and a pro-Khalistan Sikh leader, has responded to his assassination plot by India which was exposed in a report by the Financial Times (FT). After reports of the United States warning India over Pannun's
NEW DELHI: India's money laundering investigators has said that they seized properties worth 7.52 billion Indian rupees ($90.34 million) in a probe linked to a nine-year-old complaint against opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia. The complaint, lodged by a member of parliament
LUCKNOW: The ruling Hindu extremist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) continues forwarding its agenda while targeting the minorities, especially the Muslims, as the authorities in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh have banned the production, storage, distribution and sale of Halal-certified products, including dairy, garments
NEW DELHI: India’s talent competitiveness ranking fell from 83rd place out of 103 countries in 2013 to 103rd place out of 134 countries, as per The Global Talent Competitiveness Index by business school INSEAD. India remained at the lowest position among the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India,
NEW DELHI: Two Indian cities joined New Delhi to be among the world's worst 10 for pollution on Monday morning, with smoke heavy in the air a day after revellers let loose with firecrackers for Diwali - the annual Hindu festival of light. The capital New
NEW DELHI: Indian government's crackdown on NewsClick, a non-profit news organisation established in 2009 and renowned for its incisive reporting on the Hindu nationalist agenda of Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have been driven by a New York Times report. The NewsClick's founder-editor, staff, past employees,
NEW DELHI: Indian police raided the office of a news portal and the homes of journalists and writers linked to it on Tuesday as part of an investigation into suspected illegal foreign funding of the media company, two government officials said. Laptops and mobile phones were
NEW DELHI: Amid worsening diplomatic ties between India and Canada, New Delhi has asked Ottawa that it must repatriate 41 diplomats by October 10, according to a report published in Financial Times on Tuesday. Ties between the two US allies have become seriously strained over Canadian