Jakarta: Southeast Asian ministers at the end of two-day talks in Indonesia on Saturday urged Myanmar's junta to implement a five-point peace plan agreed two years ago to create a path towards ending the country's political crisis. Indonesia -- Southeast Asia's biggest economy -- is the
Juba: Tens of thousands of people sang, drummed and ululated as Pope Francis arrived in South Sudan for an unprecedented joint "pilgrimage of peace" with his Anglican and Scottish Presbyterian counterparts. The young African country broke away from Sudan to become independent in 2011 after decades
Dubai: A former senior official at Britain’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is taking the UK government to court test the legal protections for whistleblowers, amid concerns they are not sufficient to protect civil servants. Josie Stewart, who worked at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Washington: The political uproar over a suspected Chinese spy balloon drifting over the United States did not just derail a planned visit to Beijing by the top US diplomat, it also threatens to upset attempts by both countries to steady an increasingly rocky relationship. The reaction
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti has said that the so-called anti-encroachment drive launched in Indian Administered Kashmir is a new weapon for the BJP’s Hindutva government to persecute the Kashmiri people and uproot them from their homes. Mehbooba Mufti talking to reporters in Srinagar
New Delhi: The Supreme Court lamented that despite the court passing many orders, nobody is taking action against hate speeches. A bench of Justices K.M. Joseph, Aniruddha Bose and Hrishikesh Roy made the observation while a lawyer requested an urgent hearing against the Hindu Jan Akrosh
Mumbai: In November last year, the Telangana high court laid down three strict conditions while setting aside MLA Raja Singh’s preventive detention order. Singh, who has over 100 criminal cases against him, had spent 76 days in jail under preventive detention for stoking communal tensions
Assam: Police in Assam have arrested more than 1,800 men for marrying or arranging marriages to underage girls, launching what the eastern Indian state's chief minister said was the start of a sustained crackdown on the practice. Police began the arrests on Friday night, and more
Ever since Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in India, there has been a rise in the production of Hindutva pop and anti-Muslim music. What was earlier fringe has now become mainstream. Blazing anti-Muslim music that caters to Hindutva ideology during Hindu festivals and other
Brussels: NATO allies on Friday threw their weight behind U.S. complaints that Russia is violating the New START nuclear arms control treaty and called on Moscow to come back into compliance. "NATO Allies agree the New START Treaty contributes to international stability by constraining Russian and