WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department has initiated legal proceedings against Elon Musk's SpaceX, for discriminatory hiring practices against asylum seekers and refugees. The lawsuit asserts that SpaceX, during the period spanning from September 2018 to May 2022, consistently discouraged individuals seeking asylum and refugees from applying
NEW DELHI: India’s prime minister and China’s leader agreed to intensify efforts to de-escalate tensions at the disputed border between them and bring home thousands of their troops deployed there, according to an official from India’s foreign ministry. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping
JOHANNESBURG: South African digital news website Daily Maverick said that it had been subject to a cyber attack from India after it published a report that said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi refused to leave his aircraft because the South African government had “only sent
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has said that the Centre could not justify the means used to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution merely by pointing to the ends achieved through the legal changes, The Hindu reported. A five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud
SRINAGAR: The President of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), Mehbooba Mufti, has voiced her concerns regarding the toll taxes levied at Sarore in Jammu. Mehbooba Mufti in a tweet said the Indian government is fleecing the people of
MANILA: The coronavirus pandemic and rise in cost of living have pushed close to 70 million more people in developing Asia into extreme poverty as of last year, the Asian Development Bank said, eroding efforts to combat deprivation. In a new report released on Thursday, the
UNITED NATIONS: India’s UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj parried a question on the Kashmir dispute at a special press conference she convened at the UN Headquarters in New York to highlight her country’s success in landing its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the moon. “This is not the moment
ANKARA: The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) called upon India to reverse all "illegal and unilateral measures” taken on or after August 5, 2019, and to stop the gross, systematic and widespread human rights abuses in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). The call made
ABUJA: The United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, plans to commit $270 million to Nigeria’s humanitarian and poverty alleviation efforts and pledged to help set up an emergency operation center, its executives said on Wednesday. The government of President Bola Tinubu wants to lift 133 million citizens
LONDON: People smugglers are using UK tourist visas to enter Britain and travel onward to the EU via illegal crossings, the Daily Telegraph reported on Wednesday. Through the illegal “back door” route, about 22 North African migrants — including Algerians, Moroccans and Tunisians — were captured