Beijing: China on Thursday said that its decision to expel two Indian journalists was a “counter measure” against New Delhi’s “unfair” treatment of Chinese journalists. In April, China had barred State-run Prasar Bharati’s reporter Anshuman Mishra and The Hindu correspondent Ananth Krishnan from returning to the
Srinagar: The Modi-led Indian government has allotted 1,99,550 more houses on Kashmiris’ land to non-Kashmiri residents in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) to upset the Muslim majority status of the territory on fast track. This is deemed as a major step towards a big
Srinagar: Protest demonstrations were held in Srinagar, Poonch and other areas against the anti-people policies of the occupation regime. People took to streets in Batamaloo area of Srinagar against the fleecing of the Kashmiri people in the name of the installation of smart meters by the
Srinagar: Human rights activist and Chairman of Kashmir Institute of International Relations Altaf Hussain Wani has urged UN Secretary General António Guterres to urgently intervene to prevent the unlawful execution of the Kashmiri leader Mr. Yasin Malik who has been languishing in India’s Tihar jail. In
The Hague: A UN court slapped two former Serbian spy chiefs with longer prison sentences Wednesday in the last major Hague war crimes trial from the 1990s Bosnian conflict. Judges rejected appeals by the late Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic’s state security service boss Jovica Stanisic and
Zvecan: The US-led military alliance NATO is planning to send 700 extra troops to Kosovo and put another battalion on high alert to go in as unrest in the region has intensified since ethnic Albanian mayors took office in the country’s northern Serb-majority area after
United Nations: For the first time since fighting broke out in Sudan on April 15, UN humanitarians have been able to reach desperate families trapped in the conflict’s epicenter, Khartoum, with food assistance, the World Food Programme (WFP) reported. WFP’s Country Director in Sudan, Eddie Rowe,
Washington: Former US State Department and nuclear regulatory officials on Wednesday urged the US Energy Department to reconsider a plan to use bomb-grade uranium in a nuclear power experiment, saying that its use could encourage such tests in other countries. The Energy Department and two companies
New Delhi: India has announced to hold the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of State Summit via video conference on July 4. Announcing the decision, the Indian foreign ministry said the 22nd SCO meeting would be held virtually and be presided over by Indian
Mumbai: On a hot summer afternoon, 23-year-old Nizamuddin Abdul Rahim Khan is playing cricket on a muddy, unpaved road in the Rafiq Nagar slum in India's financial capital, Mumbai. Here, there is scant evidence of India's fast-growing economy. Bordering what was once Asia's largest garbage dumping ground,