New Delhi: India’s government said that it has approved three proposals worth Rs42.76 billion rupees ($523.03m) to purchase equipment for its army and navy. The country has long been building and modifying its conventional arsenal as a Sweden-based institute Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in
Oslo: Realization of right to self-determination of Kashmiris in Indian Administered Kashmir is a “whole-some” process which demands all segments of Kashmiri resistance movement will have to work in tandem with each other to defeat the enemy, speakers said at a conference in Norway. Addressing right
Doha: Reports are making the rounds on social media claiming that Qatar has expelled India’s Defence Attaché for alleged involvement in espionage for Israel. It is pertinent to mention here that eight former Indian Navy officials were detained in Qatar last year on charges of espionage. The
Bengaluru: Ten months after the Karnataka High Court held that the "hijab does not form a part of the essential religious practice in the Islam faith", a comprehensive report by a noted human rights organisation found that Muslim students bore the brunt of a "climate
London: Renowned Pakistani commentator and foreign policy expert Mosharraf Zaidi has said that India’s occupation of Kashmir served not only to make the region less stable and less secure but also undermined the UK and other Western powers’ goals in the so-called Indo-Pacific region. Zaidi said
Bengaluru: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) goons assaulted a 20-year-old Muslim youth for talking to a Hindu girl in the Indian state of Karnataka. The Hindu extremists severely thrashed the youth namely Hafeez for talking to the Hindu girl in Dakshina Kannada district of the state. The duo
New Delhi: More than 1.8 lakh people gave up their Indian citizenship in the first 10 months of 2022, the Congress said, while taking a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Amrit Kaal’. Quoting from figures given by the Ministry of External Affairs, party spokesperson Gaurav
New York: Ahead of the 21st anniversary of the opening of the Guantánamo Bay detention center, where the United States has detained nearly 780 Muslim men without charge or trial over the years. Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International’s Americas director, said: “It’s tragic that 21 years after
London: Britain is considering supplying Ukraine with tanks for the first time to help the country fight Russian forces, Sky News reported, citing unnamed sources. Discussions have been taking place "for a few weeks" about delivering the British Army s Challenger 2 main battle tank to
Brest: Worldwide acts of piracy fell to their lowest level last year since statistics were first established in 2008, a maritime security body said on Tuesday. The Maritime Information Cooperation and Awareness Center (MICA), which is operated by members of the French Navy and partner navies,