New Delhi: Global human rights body, Amnesty International has said the raids by India’s Income Tax department officials on the BBC’s office in New Delhi and Mumbai are an ‘affront to free speech’. Aakar Patel, Chair of Amnesty International India’s Board, in a statement said, the
Ahmedabad: The family of an 18-year-old Dalit student at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay who reportedly died by suicide earlier this week on Wednesday told NDTV that he had faced discrimination on account of his caste. The student, Darshan Solanki, reportedly jumped off the seventh floor
New Delhi: In two months, India is projected to become the world's most populous country with over 1.4 billion people. But for at least a year, and possibly longer, the country won't know how many people it has because it hasn't been able to count
New Delhi: Russian state news agencies reported that Russia had supplied India with $13 billion worth of arms in the past five years. India has also placed a requisition for another $10 billion worth of arms and military equipment with Russia, the reports added. India’s procurement
London: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that the government would do “whatever it takes” to protect the country, as the U.K. announced a security review after several unidentified objects were shot down in the skies over North America. Asked about the objects, Sunak said
Lisbon, Portugal: More than 4,800 individuals may have been victims of child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church and 512 alleged victims have already come forward with their stories, an expert panel looking into historic abuse in the church said Tuesday. Senior Portuguese church officials
Nairobi: With the prospect of a sixth consecutive failed rainy season in the east and Horn of Africa, Kenya’s president is hoping the heavens will finally open with the help of a national day of mass prayer on Tuesday. William Ruto announced the plans for the
From the leaked messages by Arnab Goswami it is now absolutely clear that Prime Minister Modi in collusion with Indian Army, Indian intelligence agencies and Indian right-wing media created a casus belli by orchestrating Pulwama incident to attack Pakistan. On 14th February 2019, a terror attack
New Delhi: Indian tax authorities raided the BBC's New Delhi offices on Tuesday, a journalist at the broadcaster told AFP, weeks after it aired a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "There's income tax raid in office, they're confiscating all phones," the employee said. India
London: US and Libyan authorities may have violated due process in the arrest and extradition of alleged Lockerbie bombing suspect Abu Agela Masud Kheir Al-Marimi, Human Rights Watch has warned. The US had long pursued Al-Marimi over his alleged role in the 1988 Pan Am Flight