Darlaghat: For truckers transporting cement from Adani's factories in a hilly north Indian state, a US short-seller's critical research report on the giant conglomerate was a godsend they say helped them save their livelihoods. For weeks, around 7,000 truck owners and drivers in India's Himachal Pradesh
Brisbane: Within days of the Indian foreign minister's high-profile visit to Australia, a video is making rounds on social media with the "Khalistan" Flag raised at Indian Consulate in Brisbane. In the video, G-20 foreign ministers have been urged to visit New Delhi's "Widow Colony" inhibited
Warsaw: United States President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been sparring verbally, presenting starkly different views of the world and the Ukraine war, Biden promising to defend democracies and Putin asserting the West was a threat to Russia. In speeches just hours apart,
New York: The families of victims of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks cannot seize $3.5 billion in funds belonging to Afghanistan's central bank, a New York federal judge ruled. The assets, held in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, were frozen on August 15,
Seattle: Seattle became the first US city to outlaw caste discrimination, after its local council voted to add caste to the city's anti-discrimination laws. The move addresses an issue important to the area's South Asian diaspora, particularly the Indian and Hindu communities. India's caste system is
By Muhammad Wasama Khalid, AOP LIPR In India, atrocities and a crime against Scheduled Castes increased by 1.2% in 2021 (50900 cases) over 2020 (50,291 cases), including 2585 incidences of rape against Dalit women. Dalits, also known as Scheduled Castes in India, are a group of people
New Delh: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has said that India has already drifted into fascism. In a rare interview with any Italian publication, Corriere della Sera India’s decadence into fascism, the Wayanad MP said, “Fascism is already there. Democratic structures collapse. Parliament is no longer
Karnataka: A group of students on Wednesday moved to the Supreme Court seeking permission to wear hijab while they appear for examinations in Karnataka government institutes, the Hindustan Times reported. The students said they had joined private colleges following the state government’s ban on the hijab
Kyiv: As missiles streaked across Kyiv's skies one mid-February morning, a group of high school pupils sat against a metro station's walls, scribbling away in notebooks and focused on their teacher Olena's instructions. To avoid the lesson being disrupted by yet another Russian attack, she had
United Nations: The United States proposed that the UN Security Council condemn North Korea's ballistic missile launches and encourage Pyongyang to engage in diplomacy, warning that the 15-member body's failure to respond had become dangerous. China and Russia oppose any further action by the Security Council,