Assam: Senior Trinamool Congress leader and ex- Meghalaya chief minister Mukul Sangma has termed the killing of six people including five Meghalaya villagers in Assam Police’s open firing on the Assam-Meghalaya boundary as “genocide.”
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that his party started the Bharat Jodo Yatra because all democratic routes in the country have been shut by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Geneva: The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will hold meeting this week to consider launching an international investigation into the deadly crackdown on mass protests rocking Iran.
London: Lawyers for a woman who was stripped of her British citizenship after traveling to join the Daesh group in Syria challenged the decision, arguing she was a victim of child trafficking.
Moscow: The United States (US) opposes any military action that destabilizes the situation in Syria, a State Department spokesperson said, amid an escalation in retaliatory strikes by Kurdish militia near Syrian border.
Athens: Greece’s coast guard was rescuing a fishing boat with up to 500 migrants onboard in strong winds southwest of Crete.
Jakarta: The death toll from an earthquake that hit Indonesia's Cianjur town has risen to 268, the local government said on Tuesday.
Srinagar: Many Kashmiri journalists refused to file fabricated stories on Kashmir and opted to resign from several English newspapers instead of the toeing the Modi regime’s line to advance the Hindutva agenda in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
Shopian: Indian police in Shopian district sealed nine properties worth more than Rs 2.58 crore belonging t Jamaat-e-Islami, the State Investigation Agency (SIA) said
Srinagar: The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir has dismissed a petition seeking to make Hindi the official language in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).