Amid the violence that has gripped Bishkek, the family members of Ayesha Shirin Roy, a girl from Gaurela Pendra Marwahi, who is stuck in Kyrgyzstan, said their niece is scared by the prevailing unrest and wants to return to her homeland.
In perhaps the first acknowledgement of its kind on a global forum that the "new India is a dangerous entity", Pakistan's Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations, Munir Akram said, invoking the alleged targeted and extra-judicial assassinations in his homeland and elsewhere.
The Centre's much-debated Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), by which members of religious minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, who settled in the country as refugees after fleeing alleged persecution in their homelands, are to be given permanent Indian residency; could well
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, known for his dissident stance against the Islamic Republic, has fled his homeland amidst an eight-year prison sentence handed down by the Islamic Revolution Court.
Referring to the conflict in the Middle East and the Israel-Palestine issue, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Wednesday said that India supports a homeland for the Palestinians and is public about its stand.
Shabir Choudhry, an activist and writer originating from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and currently residing in London, has been actively drawing attention to the deteriorating situation in his homeland.
According to the Japan-based news website, Chinese professor, Fan Yuntao, 61, who returned to his country in February last year, was contacted by Chinese authorities before his disappearance, adding he may have been detained.
Jaishankar's statement came after Ann Tessa Joseph, hailing from Thrissur, Kerala, one of the 17 Indian crew members of the Israel-linked cargo ship 'MSC Aries' that was seized by Iran on April 13, returned safely to her homeland, in a major diplomatic win for New Delhi.
Prithviraj Sukumaran's latest release 'Aadujeevitham' draws inspiration from the life and experiences of Najeeb Muhammad alias Shukoor, who, in the '90s, left his homeland for the Persian Gulf states to support his family but ended up working as a slave/goatherd in a desert for over three ye
Jaishankar stated that what transpired on October 7 was a 'terrorist attack' but also acknowledged, in reference to the Israeli counteroffensive in Gaza, that every response must take into account something called international humanitarian law.
Actor Priyanka Chopra, who is currently on a visit to her homeland, offered prayers at Ram Janmabhoomi Temple in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh with her husband, singer Nick Jonas and daughter Malti Marie.