New Delhi: A top Indian university has banned the screening of a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role during the deadly 2002 sectarian riots, after his government attempted to block its spread online. The broadcaster’s programme alleges that the Hindu nationalist Modi, premier of
Colombo: India has told Sri Lanka it is committed to boost investment in its debt-ridden neighbour, to help pull the island nation from its worst economic crisis in seven decades, Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said during a visit to Colombo. The country of 22 million has
Jabalpur: An Indian army colonel committed suicide in Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The 43-year-old Indian Army colonel committed suicide by hanging at a training centre in Jabalpur city of the state, police said. The body of Colonel Nishith Khanna, posted as Commanding Officer in the 1-Technical
New Delhi: India says it has used emergency powers to block a BBC documentary about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi from being shared online. The two-part programme - India: The Modi Question - questions Mr Modi's leadership during the 2002 Gujarat riots. The first episode was broadcast
Chandigarh: The Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) as well as the Akal Takht, the highest temporal body of the Sikhs, has objected to the Army’s plans to procure specialised ballistic helmets for Sikh soldiers. The Sikh bodies have asked the Union government to withdraw the decision,
Amritsar: The signature campaign of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) started to develop a mass movement for the release of Bandi Singhs (Sikh prisoners) will now be intensified as the pracharak (preacher) groups will take this campaign to village level. Close to 10 lakh people
Mangaluru: The former Chief Minister and Opposition leader in the in Indian state Karnataka assembly, Siddaramaiah has said that BJP is trying to turn coastal Karnataka into a laboratory of Hindutva for their political advantage. Addressing reporters in Udupi, Siddaramaiah said that the BJP is more
Ouagadougou: Sixty-six women and children kidnapped by armed assailants in northern Burkina Faso last week have been freed, national broadcaster Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina (RTP) said. The mass kidnapping was unprecedented in Burkina Faso, which is facing a violent terrorist insurgency that spread from neighbouring Mali
Jakarta: The recent visit of Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to Indonesia to meet with his counterpart President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo of Indonesia was both important and strategic in three ways. They affirmed the obvious, that Indonesia and Malaysia do have a “special relationship”. But more
Lima: The explosion of unrest that has left at least 44 dead in Peru began high up in the Andes and spread to the capital Lima as Indigenous people vented their fury over racism, polarization and growing poverty. Indeed, analysts say, the upheaval sparked by the