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Protest against persecution of minorities in Bangladesh raises concerns at
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
A press conference in Geneva raised serious concerns over the persecution of minorities in Bangladesh, highlighting impunity, the release of convicted terrorists, and rising crimes against women. Speakers called for urgent UN intervention and criticised the government's failure to uphold the
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Runa Laila says she is unaware of invitation to visit Pakistan
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Bangladeshi singer Runa Laila has denied receiving an invitation to visit Pakistan, despite Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's statement that a Bangladeshi cultural delegation led by her was invited.
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Parliamentary standing committee report recommends creation of Anganwadi w
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
"The Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth, and Sports under my Chairmanship has unanimously passed its DFG Report for the Ministry of Women and Child Development," Singh posted on X, recommending, "Doubling of honorarium due to Anganwadi workers and creation of an Anganwad
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Ben Stokes, Brydon Carse unavailable for selection as England preepare the
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
The England cricket team willl continue to miss the services of their skipper Ben Stokes and right-arm seamer Brydon Carse in the upcoming Test series against India and the Ashes as they are still recovering from their respective injuries.
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UKPNP condemns Pakistan's ranger deployment, job quota in PoJK
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
The United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) has condemned Pakistan's deployment of Ranger Forces in Pakistan-occupied Jammu & Kashmir (PoJK) and the 25 per cent job quota for Pakistani nationals, calling these moves violations of international law and efforts to alter the region's
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Shift in financial markets from US exceptionalism to un-exceptionalism tri
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Amid the ongoing tariff threat environment, the financial markets have begun shifting their perspective on the US economy, which has impacted the USD.
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UN Security Council condemns attack on peacekeeping mission in Central Afr
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
The United Nations Security Council has strongly condemned the recent attack on the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) in the village of Tabani, located 24 kilometres west of Zemio in the Haut-Mbomou prefecture, which re
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BYC leader Sibghatullah Shah Ji Baloch detained in Quetta amid crackdown i
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
The central member of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), Sibghatullah Shah Ji Baloch, has been detained by Pakistani forces at his home in Quetta and is currently unaccounted for, according to a post from the BYC reported by The Balochistan Post (TBP).
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UN experts urge China to explain detention of Tibetan environmental activi
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Three UN Special rapporteurs, Mary Lawlor, Astrid Puentes Rian, and Irene Khan, issued a collective statement expressing their concerns regarding the summoning and interrogation of Tibetan environmental activist Tsongon Tsering in Ngaba, Sichuan, as reported by the Central Tibet Administrat
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"Our demand to government is to implement Article 15(5)": Congress MP Jair
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
He said, "In the first phase, we did it in government educational institutions, Delhi University, IITs, IIMs. In January 2014, the Supreme Court unanimously said that the amendment made in the Constitution, Article 15(5), is not against the basic structure of our Constitution...Then election
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BRS hits out at Congress govt in Telangana over detention of journalist co
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
"The draconian police overreach in Telangana is alarming. Journalists are being detained & dissenting voices arrested. This blatant suppression of free speech and expression is unacceptable. And Rahul Gandhi goes to town preaching about democracy and free speech. The double standards are
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Kerala Catholic Bishops Council urges MPs to support Waqf Bill
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
The statement issued by Fr. Thomas Tharayil of the KCBC secretariat said that provisions in the Waqf law, which legitimise the "illegal claims" in such a way that people in Munambam are unable to exercise their revenue claims on the land, need to be amended.
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