New Delhi: India's right-wing boycott trendsetters didn't spare Cadbury — one of the world's leading multinational confectionery companies — on social media after it claimed to have used gelatin in their products which were "derived from beef", hurting sentiments of devotees as a result. Boycotts based
Toronto: Around 8000 Sikhs participated in “1984 Sikh Genocide” Remembrance Truck and Car Rally was organized by the secessionist group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) which at one point brought the traffic to standstill and blocked the highways in Toronto. The main highway and dozens of linked
New Delhi: Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking stronger laws and policies to restrict the remission and paroles of rape convicts. She cited the Bilkis Bano rape case and Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet
New Delhi: Delhi has suspended most construction and demolition activities as air quality in Delhi is set to worsen from November 1 because of calmer winds and other meteorological conditions. The city of about 20 million, the world's most polluted capital, turns nearly unbreathable every winter
United Nations: Pakistan deplored that millions of people, including those living in occupied Kashmir, continue to live under alien domination and foreign occupation despite the right to self-determination being UN Charter’s “cardinal principle”. “The price of this failure is being paid, in blood, by successive generations
London: Britain Prime Minister Rishi Sunak could attend the COP27 climate conference in Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh if important domestic policy decisions are resolved. It follows controversy after former UK PM Boris Johnson suggested that he would take part in the event — which runs from Nov.
Geneva: The U.N.’s refugee agency said that destruction from flooding has displaced more than 3.4 million people in west and central Africa. UNHCR said that Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade have killed hundreds, displaced 1.3 million residents and affected over 2.8 million people in the
United Nations: The United Nations's Mideast ambassador said 2022 is on course to be the deadliest year for Palestinians in the West Bank since the U.N. started tracking fatalities in 2005, and he called for immediate action to calm “an explosive situation” and move toward renewing
Gujarat: The death toll from a bridge collapse in Gujarat in India rose to 132, a local government official told media on Monday. A footbridge over the Machhu River in the town of Morbi was packed with sightseers enjoying holiday festivities when it collapsed, plunging people
London: Three years since promising to establish a working definition of Islamophobia, the UK government will be questioned on the issue in parliament on Tuesday amid a growing backlash for its inaction. Home Office statistics show Muslims are the most targeted faith group in England and