Frisco Texas: Over 300 people from Frisco, Dallas, and surrounding areas, including members of diverse civil rights and interfaith organisations, held a rally in Frisco city of the Texas state of the United States (US) to protest Hindutva hate and anti-Christian persecution in India.
Chandigarh: Speakers of a seminar held in Chandigarh, have expressed deep concern over human rights abuses in India and appealed to the international community and human rights organizations to take notice of the rights abuses.
Oslo: A trio from the three nations at the centre of the war in Ukraine accepted their Nobel Peace Prize, calling for an unabated fight against Russian President Vladimir Putin's "insane and criminal" invasion.
Brussels: The European Union struck a political deal to impose a carbon dioxide emissions tariff on imports of polluting goods such as steel and cement, a world-first scheme aiming to support European industries as they decarbonise.
New York: United States (US) hate crime incidents dropped in 2021 from a two-decade high in 2020, according to FBI data released, but the agency acknowledged that the figures exclude totals from more than one-third of the country’s law enforcement agencies (LEAs).
Dhaka: A Bangladeshi court rejected the bail petitions of more than 200 opposition leaders and activists accused of being linked to recent clashes between Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) members.
New Delhi: Indian and Chinese troops have clashed on their disputed Himalayan border in Arunachal Pradesh, the first known incident between the two nuclear-armed Asian powers in nearly two years.
Muzaffarabad: Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) Secretary General Hissein Brahim Taha has said that Kashmir is on the top priority of the OIC’s agenda and he will submit a comprehensive assessment report on the human rights situation in Kashmir to member countries.
New Delhi: India’s annual industrial output contracted 4 percent in October, its weakest performance in 26 months, after revised growth of 3.5% in September, according to data released on Tuesday.
Islamabad: Pakistan’s intelligence agencies have busted the RAW-backed intelligence network that carried out a bomb blast in Lahore’s Johar Town. The blast occurred last year in June 2021 near the residence of Hafiz Saeed in which 3 people were killed.