Washington D.C.: United States (US) President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron sat down for the centerpiece talks of a pomp-filled French state visit, with the two leaders eager to talk through the war in Ukraine, concerns about China’s increasing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific
Kabul: The United Nations’ mission to Afghanistan said they had asked the Taliban to hold a ‘credible investigation’ into reports of extrajudicial killings, including of children.
Washington: The United States (US) , South Korea, and Japan have imposed sanctions on North Korean officials connected to the country's weapons programs after North Korea's latest and largest intercontinental ballistic missile test.
Srinagar: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) amid ongoing raids on political and social activists by the India’s Hindutva regime, New Delhi has announced to seal 100 more educational institutions and properties belonging to the Jamaat-e-Islami.
New York: Pakistan told a UN Security Council Arria-Formula meeting that India is “actively” sponsoring terrorism against it, but warned that Islamabad would continue to counter those terrorist threats effectively
New Delhi: The Indian government has faced flak after it has discontinued the scholarship of minority students from class I to VIII citing free and compulsory education given under the Right to Education Act (RTE) 2009.
New Delhi: The Karnataka-Maharashtra border dispute became an issue at a college festival in Belagavi recently, when a student was allegedly beaten up after raising a Karnataka flag. This has led to protests by pro-Karnataka groups in the district.
Tamil Nadu: Police officials in southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu are looking for school officials, including the principal, who allegedly forced six children from a marginalised community to clean a toilet in the premises, leading one of them to contract a mosquito-borne viral infection.
Tamil Nadu: A school principal in Tamil Nadu's Erode district was allegedly forcing six Dalit students to clean a school toilet.
United Nations: Pakistan told a briefing session at the United Nations the work of the ISIL and al-Qaida Sanctions Committee has been politicised by “a non-permanent member” — a reference to India — who blocked measures to blacklist Tehreek-i-Taliban (TTP) militants carrying out attacks inside