India on Friday said public representatives are expected to respect the independence of the judiciary in other democracies, responding to reports that New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani wrote a letter to jailed activist Umar Khalid. “Expressing personal prejudices does not behove those in office,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said at a weekly press...
Bangladesh border officials confirmed detaining the group in the no-man’s land along the border Fourteen members of a Bengali Muslim family from Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district were allegedly pushed into Bangladesh by the Border Security Force (BSF) in December, a relative said, reported Scroll.in The family, which includes men, women, and children, has lived in Odisha...
The bill, which Senator Lindsey Graham said could be taken up in Congress as early as next week, would authorise tariffs of up to 500% on imports from countries continuing to purchase discounted Russian crude. U.S. President Donald Trump has approved draft legislation that would allow Washington to impose steep tariffs on countries buying Russian...
Police described the detainees as “jihadist elements” acting on instructions from Bangladesh-based groups and accused them of seeking to establish ‘Muslim supremacy’ India’s northeast. Police in Assam and Tripura have arrested 11 people for suspected links to banned extremist groups based in Bangladesh, authorities said on Tuesday, Scroll.in reported. Ten of the arrests were made...
In a separate incident, Arunachal Pradesh Police arrested five residents of Kashmir on Thursday on suspicion of spying Police in Karnataka have arrested three men from Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh on suspicion of passing sensitive information related to the Indian Navy to contacts in Pakistan, The Indian Express reported on Sunday. One of the accused,...
Amnesty International accused major global fashion brands on Thursday of benefiting from the repression of garment workers in South Asia, saying factory owners and governments in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are complicit in widespread labour rights abuses. In two reports released the same day, the human rights group said the industry’s business model...
Muralidhar, one of India’s most prominent jurists, practised at the Supreme Court of India for nearly two decades and served as counsel to the National Human Rights Commission before being appointed a judge of the Delhi High Court in 2006
By M Burhanuddin Qasmi Following the “absolutely not” stance of Pakistan’s democratically elected and widely admired former Prime Minister Imran Khan — who refused to allow the United States to use Pakistani airspace and bases against Afghanistan after America’s humiliating withdrawal in August 2021, the country’s deep state — the military establishment, appears to have...
United States senator Ghazala Hashmi, a Hyderabad-born Democrat, has made history with her groundbreaking bid for the post of lieutenant governor in the American state of Virginia, reported India Today. If elected on November 4, she will become the first Muslim and the first Indian-American to hold a statewide office in the state. She is...
A 25-year-old Dalit man, Gyan Singh Jatav, was allegedly abducted, brutally assaulted, and forced to drink urine twice by three men in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind district after quitting his job as a driver, reported PTI. Jatav, who was working as a driver for Sonu Barua, one of the accused, had recently left his job. Upset...