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India, UK hold discussions on security cooperation

"HC @VDoraiswami met @TomTugendhat, Minister for Security, for a wide ranging discussion on bilateral and wider security cooperation," Indian High Commission in the UK tweeted on Thursday.

2023-03-23T21:07:14.132265+00:00 IST

China interrupts Dolkun Isa at UNHRC on issue of Uyghurs

China at the UNHRC interrupted Uyghur Congress President Dolkun Isa from making his statement about human rights situation of Uyghurs in

2023-03-23T17:06:50.808171+00:00 IST

Opening Sharda Peeth Corridor is "welcome step": PoK activist

India is planning to open a corridor in the PoK for the Sharda Peeth Pilgrimage. The announcement was made by Home Minister Amit Shah after he virtually inaugurated the Sharda Devi temple at Teetwal in Kupwara district today.

2023-03-23T16:04:39.715048+00:00 IST

"Human rights violation escalating in Balochistan after CPEC"

Baloch Voice Association President Munir Mengal said that situation in Balochistan demands immediate attention due to the "systematic abuse of human rights and the disregard for the basic freedoms and liberties of its people."

2023-03-23T15:27:29.820958+00:00 IST

India slams Pakistan at UN Human Rights Council

Indian diplomat said that the democracy of India is mature enough to address any issues, including those instigated from outside. He said that minorities in Pakistan face blasphemy laws, systemic persecution, discrimination, denial of basic rights and freedoms, enforced disappearances and killings.

2023-03-23T13:40:18.024136+00:00 IST

Kashmir on path of development, peace, activist informs UNHRC

Akhtar told the UNHRC that for Kashmiri women too, accessible schemes have made it possible to pursue their educational and professional pursuits without being affected by the patriarchal structures.

2023-03-23T13:06:30.926714+00:00 IST

UK:Indian High Commission security breached, police under scanner

The pro-Khalistan supporters shouted slogans and threw water bottles and ink at the Indian High Commission. The police had deployed forces in 24 buses as well as the mounted police, however, they were successful in vandalizing and defacing the premises, putting the police under the scanner, and questioning their security promises to the Indian High Commission.

2023-03-23T11:48:27.981098+00:00 IST

UK Foreign Secy says attack on Indian mission "unacceptable"

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said in a statement that the acts of violence towards staff at the Indian High Commission in London are unacceptable. He said that the police investigation is ongoing and UK Government is in close contact with the Indian High Commission in London and the Indian Government in New Delhi.

2023-03-23T02:50:38.241457+00:00 IST

UK imparts training to Ukrainian soldiers, aims for 20k personnel

The UK has already trained 10,000 newly recruited Ukrainian soldiers since June 27 last year.

2023-03-23T01:09:41.110824+00:00 IST

Pashtun activist at UN exposes Pakistan's ties with TTP

In his intervention Fazal-ur-Rehman Afridi said, "We would like to turn the council's attention towards a deteriorating security situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Pakistan having grave implications for the basic fundamental rights and lives of Pashtun ethnic minority."

2023-03-22T23:56:03.618013+00:00 IST

Uyghur activist asks China to enforce UN recommendations

Zumretay Arkin of the World Uyghur Congress in her intervention during the 52nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council said, "It is with increasing concern that we monitor the situation in the Uyghur Autonomous Region."

2023-03-22T23:09:12.458694+00:00 IST

"PoK, Gilgit Baltistan witness rise in human rights abuses"

While giving an intervention during the 52nd Session of the Council, Nasir Aziz Khan, the central spokesperson of the United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) said, "Our organization would like to draw your attention to the serious human rights abuses that are taking place in Pakistan and its administered Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan."

2023-03-22T23:07:53.077563+00:00 IST

China's expansionist designs in South Asia exposed at UNHRC

Junaid Qureshi said: "In the past year, the debilitating impact of this Chinese strategy has been exposed a few times."

2023-03-22T20:55:40.888215+00:00 IST

Former UK PM Johnson grilled over lockdown-era parties

Johnson was asked repeatedly whether he attended parties, broke lockdown rules, misled Parliament, and should resign.

2023-03-22T17:29:25.895017+00:00 IST

Indian High Commission in UK raises giant Tricolour

In an epic reply to Khalistani supporters who vandalised the Indian High Commission in the UK, it put up a giant Tricolour atop the building.

2023-03-22T17:20:19.523107+00:00 IST

"India believes Council needs to function in cooperative manner"

India strongly believes that Council needs to function in a "cooperative, objective, non-confrontational and non-politicized manner," Pawankumar Badhe, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of India, said at the 52nd Session of the Human Rights Council, which is being held from February 27-April 4.

2023-03-22T16:54:20.151407+00:00 IST

25 people injured after ship tips over at Edinburgh dockyard

Twenty-five people have been injured after a ship tipped over at an Edinburgh dockyard. The Scottish Ambulance Service said 15 people had been taken to hospital and 10 people were treated at the scene of the incident at Imperial Dock, Leith.

2023-03-22T15:31:50.142177+00:00 IST

No freedom of expression in PoK, activists to UN

People in PoK gave many examples where the students and political activists from the region are not allowed to express their opinions and they are treated as enemies and threatened.

2023-03-22T14:13:21.688202+00:00 IST

Xi departs Russia but fails to achieve breakthrough in Ukraine

Both leaders did not discuss a Kyiv-proposed peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. He said that Kyiv's proposal was a matter of Sino-Ukraine relations.

2023-03-22T11:53:49.851494+00:00 IST

Indian NGO asks UN to add more provisions for disabled people

They organised a side event during the ongoing 52nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council with a theme titled "Impact of Covid-19 on Disabled in India" in Geneva on Wednesday.

2023-03-22T10:45:30.622831+00:00 IST

Samarthanam raise concern over impact of post-Covid on disabled

The first and second waves of COVID19 had adversely affected globally to persons with disabilities. Thousands of persons with disabilities lost their lives due to infection of COVID19, starvation, and hunger, without medication and treatment, rehabilitation services and got secondary complications without therapeutic interventions.

2023-03-22T10:40:13.200191+00:00 IST