WASHINGTON: United States rights groups plan protests next week against India Prime Minister Narendra Modi's state visit to Washington over what they say is India's deteriorating human rights situation. The Indian American Muslim Council, Peace Action, Veterans for Peace and Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition plan to gather
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party leader, Harsh Dev Singh, has said that prolonged bureaucratic rule in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir is a negation of the guarantees enshrined in the Constitution. Harsh Dev Singh addressing public meetings in Kossar and Banek villages
New Delhi: An Indian court has restricted Al Jazeera from airing or releasing a documentary on “hate crimes against Muslims” in the country, media reports said. According to a report published in Indian news website The Wire, the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday restrained the Doha-based
Jammu: Dozens of disabled persons, widows and old age people held a protest demonstration at Akhnoor in Jammu under the banner of All Jammu and Kashmir Disable Welfare Trust. The Chairman of the Trust, Sushil Sharma, led the protest. Social activists, political leaders and beneficiaries present
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.
GENEVA: The Red Cross has said that it had visited 1,500 prisoners of war on both sides of the conflict in Ukraine, often sharing desperately longed-for news with their families. The International Committee of the Red Cross stressed the importance of access to both Russian and
LONDON: Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was found responsible for deliberately misleading fellow legislators over the parties during the pandemic lockdown, according to a UK parliamentary committee report published Thursday. Had Johnson not resigned last week, the committee would have suspended him for 90 days
KALAMATA, Greece: Rescuers were scouring the seas off Greece on Thursday in a massive search operation as hopes dwindled for survivors of a shipwreck that killed at least 79 people, in one of Europe's deadliest such disasters in recent years. Hundreds of people were thought to
KHARTOUM: Army warplanes bombed the Sudanese city of El Obeid, as the country prepared to mark two months of suffering since a power struggle between rival generals plunged the country into a devastating war. Since April 15, the regular army headed by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and