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,
New Delhi: The brutal killing of a 16-year-old girl in a crowded public alleyway in India's capital has once again sparked outrage over the safety of women and the pervasive violence perpetrated against them. The incident, which unfolded on Sunday, was captured on a security camera
Srinagar: Narendra Modi-led Indian government is pursuing the Hindutva agenda of the extremist Hindu organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the same is clearly visible in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and in India’s Manipur state. India under communal Narendra Modi is moving systematically
Srinagar: National Panthers Party President, Harsh Dev Singh has said that the Modi-led Indian government is desperately attempting to usurp the rich lithium resources recently found in Reasi district which otherwise belong to and is property of the territory and its people. Harsh Dev Singh was