United Nations: A United Nations report pinpointed a series of actions taken by India in the disputed region of Kashmir over the years that have impaired the peacekeeping responsibilities of the Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP), which monitors the Line of Control
New York: Pakistan called the international community, especially United Nations, to live up to their promises and take measures as enshrined in the UNSC resolutions. Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto said, “It must also call for an immediate cessation of human rights abuses and a reversal of
New Delhi: India’s government expects economic growth to slow in the financial year that ends on March 31 as pandemic-related distortions ease and pent-up demand for goods levels out going into 2023. Gross domestic product (GDP) will likely rise 7 percent in the current fiscal year
Bengaluru: A Dalit woman was assaulted by a temple head in Bengaluru city of the Indian state of Karnataka. A video of a woman being kicked, dragged and beaten with sticks in the temple is making rounds on social media. Indian media reported that the victim Hemavathi
New Delhi: A group of civil servants on Saturday sought action against Bharatiya Janata Party MP Pragya Thakur for urging Hindus to stock weapons at home to give “befitting reply” to those who try to attack their homes. Addressing an event organised by the Hindu Jagarana
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday sent a man accused of urinating on a female co-passenger on an Air India flight in November to judicial custody for 14 days, PTI reported. The man, identified as Shankar Mishra, was arrested by the Delhi Police from Bengaluru
Panipat: The President of Indian National Congress, Mallikarjun Kharge, has said that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is misusing the power to destabilise the democratically elected state governments through various means including misuse of Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Income tax. Addressing a rally in Panipat city of
Srinagar: In Indian Administered Kashmir , justice continues to elude the victim families of gory Sopore massacre for the past 30 years whose relatives were killed by Indian Forces on January 6, 1993. The Indian forces had martyred over 60 people and set on fire more
Istanbul: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Vladimir Putin in a phone call that peace efforts in the Russia-Ukraine war should be supported by a unilateral ceasefire and a "vision for a fair solution", the Turkish presidency said on Thursday. Erdogan and the Russian president have spoken
United Nations: In in an appeal to governments everywhere, UN human rights chief Volker Turk has called for ending arbitrary detention “once and for all.” “At the start of this year – the 75th anniversary year of the” Universal Declaration of Human Rights”– I call on