In a strong condemnation, the Community Network Against Protected Areas (CNAPA), representing indigenous peoples and forest-dwelling communities, has criticized the alleged “fake encounter” of two Muslim youths reportedly carried out by armed forest guards at Assam’s Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary. Jaliluddin and Sameeruddin, residents of Dhingbari Chapari village in Nagaon District, tragically lost their lives on...
UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman says waving the Palestinian flag or chanting “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” could be a crime. The UK government has urged police chiefs to consider whether waving a Palestinian flag could be a criminal offence in the wake of calls by senior figures for people deemed...
Death toll continues to rise as relentless Israeli air strikes unabated. According to Palestinian ministry of health, 413 Palestinians fatalities reported including 78 children and 41 women, meaning the total death toll is now a1,070 and in addition to more 2,300 wounded in the Gaza Strip as a result of the occupation’s aggression. Gaza is...
“The Kingdom is closely following the developments of the unprecedented between a number of Palestinian factions and the Israeli occupation forces,” the foreign ministry said in a statement posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. Saudi Arabia called for “an immediate halt to the escalation between the two sides, the protection of civilians, and the...
More than 200 Palestinians have been killed and 1,600 people also wounded in air attacks carried out by the occupier Israel after militants in the Gaza Strip launched an unprecedented infiltration against Israel that killed at least 40 people. The Hamas militant group ruling Gaza strip, world’s largest open air prison said that the beginning of...
The United States is doing all in its power to thwart the exercise of inalienable rights of Palestinian people to have their own independent state, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the General Debate of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly. “It is impossible to fully normalize the situation in the...
BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri’s anti-muslim slurs against Muslim MP Danish Ali in Parliament during a debate in parliament about India’s moon mission is disgusting and reprehensible but not shocking. It is not uncommon in today’s India and Bidhuri’s comments reflect the image of majoritarian democracy. Ramesh Bidhuri’s threatening and islamophobic remarks can be heard calling Muslim...
Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev said in a TV address to the nation that the military operation was over, and the Armenian population in Karabakh can now breathe easy. They are our citizens. We have no hostility toward the Armenian people. We held those at the top of the criminal regime accountable. He also seemd to offer...
A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan today concluded hearing arguments of the convicts in the batch of pleas challenging the premature release of 11 men who had gang-raped Bilkis Bano and brutally massacred her family members during the 2002 Gujarat carnage. Bilkis Bano has filed a petition Supreme Court against the remission...
A disturbing and shocking video went viral on social video, Kashmiri muslim students of Desh Bhagat University (DBU) in Punjab were reportedly beaten by university staff, police and local goons allegedly hired by the staff after students, raised concerns over the university’s admission practices. Scores of Kashmiri students pursuing nursing degrees at Desh Bhagat University...