KHARTOUM: Hundreds gathered in the Sudanese capital Khartoum Wednesday to pray for peace on the first day of the Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday, but gunfire shattered the brief respite, residents said. Witnesses in the capital's twin city of Omdurman late Wednesday reported air strikes and anti-aircraft
NEW YORK: Global heating incrementally boosts the intensity of extreme rainfall at higher altitudes, putting two billion people living in or downstream from mountains at greater risk of floods and landslides, researchers said Wednesday. Every degree celsius of warming increases the density of major downpours by
Srinagar: Experts on Thursday termed India’s belligerence as the biggest threat to peace and stability in the region, which is creating war hysteria and deflecting the world attention from serious human rights and war crime situation in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). They
Srinagar: The Eid-ul-Azha celebrations continued though the festivity is missing due to anti Muslim policy of Modi regime and Indian military and police siege in Srinagar and other areas in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The Modi regime led by BJP-RSS disallowed people to offer
New Delhi: Accusing the Canadian government of being lax towards Khalistan supporters on its shores, external affairs minister S. Jaishankar claimed that its response was driven by “vote-bank compulsions”. Jaishankar was speaking at an event in New Delhi’s India International Centre on Wednesday, June 28 commemorating
GUWAHATI, India, Reuters: Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi was stopped by local police on Thursday and teargas fired near his convoy when the 53-year old scion of the Congress party was on his way to visit the violence-hit northeastern Manipur state. At least 80 people have
NEW DELHI: Authorities in the United States are making inquiries about the representations that the Adani Group made to its American investors in the wake of the allegations of stock manipulation by Hindenburg Research, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The inquiries have been sent by the US
NEW DELHI: In response to the assertions of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), a reference to abolition the Muslim Personal Law, Congress leader P Chidambaram said it cannot be forced on people by an “agenda-driven majoritarian government” as it
NEW YORK: A vote by the Security Council to end a UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, at Mali's own request, was postponed to later this week due to ongoing talks, diplomatic sources said. Mali's Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop took the world by surprise on June 16
BOLIVIA: After dozens of victims accused more than 30 members of the Catholic Church, a probe has been launched by the Bolivian prosecutors amid countrywide anger. The case has sparked outrage in Bolivia, with many calling for justice for the victims and greater accountability from the