KHARTOUM: The UN sounded the alarm of impending famine in Sudan, where months of war have hit food supplies and pushed nearly four million people to flee the fighting. "Over 20.3 million people, representing more than 42 percent of the population in the country, are experiencing
ANKARA: India's Supreme Court began hearing petitions challenging the Indian government's 2019 decision of scrapping the special status of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). A constitution bench led by Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud began hearing arguments in the case nearly four
ASSAM: The Assam Police arrested two members of the Bajrang Dal for organising an arms training camp at a school in Darrang, PTI reported. Darrang Superintendent of Police Prakash Sonowal said that the accused have been identified as Bijoy Ghosh and Gopal Boro. “Both of them have
LUCKNOW: An Indian court on Thursday ruled that officials can conduct a scientific survey to determine if a 17th-century mosque in the country’s north was built over a Hindu temple. The Gyanvapi mosque in the holy Hindu city of Varanasi, an area Prime Minister Narendra Modi
NEW YORK: New York, once the gateway to the United States through Ellis Island and a city built by immigrants, is full, according to the mayor – but migrants seeking a better life continue to arrive by the hundreds. Dozens of asylum seekers, mainly from West
JAKARTA: A Muslim preacher has been arrested on charges including blasphemy and hate speech after his Islamic boarding school provoked protests for allowing women to preach and pray beside men, police said Wednesday. The Al-Zaytun boarding school in West Java, Muslim-majority Indonesia’s most populous province, has
NEW DELHI: Riot police were patrolling urban neighbourhoods near India’s capital on Wednesday following a second night of sectarian riots that have killed six people so far. The unrest began when mobs hurled stones at a Hindu religious procession and set cars alight in the predominantly
NEW DELHI: At least four persons were killed when a police officer with the Railway Protection Force (RPF) allegedly opened indiscriminate fire inside a moving train in India's southwestern state of Maharashtra, official sources said. The shootout took place inside the Jaipur Express train, which was
LONDON: The Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) has been accused of intimidating and targeting relatives of prominent pro-Khalistan leaders who left India decades ago and hold British or other nationalities. The Sikh Federation (UK) said that families of its two prominent leaders in India have come
SRINAGAR: The authorities in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir have suspended the passports of some journalists and at least one Kashmiri political activist. According to the details, the Regional Passport Office in Srinagar has emailed at least two journalists and a political activist, among others,