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India slams Pakistan at UNHRC, warns against spreading propaganda, attempt
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
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 ki
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More than quarter of world's population has no safe drinking water: UNESCO
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
More than a quarter, 26 per cent of the world's population, comprising approximately 2 billion people, do not have safe drinking water and 3.6 billion or 46 per cent lack access to safely managed sanitation, according to the report, published by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water and released a
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UN: Pakistan Mission flooded with calls for protection of Christians
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Letters of protest by the organizations point to the systematic persecution of Christians, resulting in unjust punishments citing blasphemy, forced marriages of young Christian girls to older Muslim men, forced conversions in various parts of Pakistan and usurping of land and belongings of C
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Akhilesh Yadav blames Yogi government after UP man's Sarus crane 'friend'
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
He said that bird lovers from around the world will agitate if the state government is unable to find 'Sarus'.
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UK Foreign Secretary says attack on Indian High Commission "unacceptable"
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
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 I
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Pashtun activist at UN exposes Pakistan's ties with Tehreek-e-Taliban Paki
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
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."
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Uyghur activist asks China to enforce UN recommendations to curb human rig
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
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."
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PoK, Gilgit Baltistan witness rise in human rights abuses, activists infor
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
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 Pakist
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China's expansionist designs in South Asia exposed at UNHRC
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Junaid Qureshi said: "In the past year, the debilitating impact of this Chinese strategy has been exposed a few times."
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UP: Wife, relatives booked for 'killing' doctor in Lucknow
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A case has been registered against four persons for allegedly killing a Unani doctor including his wife under Ghazipur police station area of Lucknow following a complaint filed by the deceased 's brother.
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Punjab assembly passes resolution to name Ludhiana airport after Shaheed K
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The Punjab Vidhan Sabha, led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution to request the Government of India (GOI) to name the upcoming International Airport at Indian Air force Station Halwara, Ludhiana as Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha International Airport.
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ISSF World Cup: Sarabjot Singh wins men's 10m Air Pistol gold
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Manu Bhaker and Yashaswini Singh Deswal were unable to get past the qualification round in the 10m Air Pistol competition
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