Members of the Sikh community on Thursday demonstrated outside the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi against Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, General Counsel of Sikhs for Justice and Pakistan’s spy agency ISI, for instigating Khalistan and Referendum 2020 movements in the Indian national

The 21-year-old executive assistant accused of killing and decapitating his boss at the tech CEO's luxury Manhattan condo pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, his attorneys said Sunday. Tyrese Haspil, a native New Yorker, has had no prior contact with the criminal justice

About 273 million Indians moved out of multidimensional poverty between 2005-6 and 2015-16, according to a UN report, which noted that India has recorded the largest reduction in the number of people living in this category. The data, released by the United Nations Development

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz has been admitted to hospital, suffering from inflammation of the gall bladder, according to state media. The 84-year-old ruler, who has ruled the country since 2015, was undergoing medical checks in the capital, state news agency

A recent US report has claimed that China has discreetly initiated a maritime law enforcement initiative with an aim to enhance marine environmental protection and combat “illegal activities in key areas”, including offshore oil exploration as well as shipping and related operations.

As China is now fixing its eyes on Bhutan by declaring a Bhutanese wildlife sanctuary along their border as a disputed territory, Bhutan swiftly jumped to its feet and issued a demarche to China. The demarche was a follow-up to protests earlier against Beijing’s attempt to make a

Iran has halted the executions of three men who were sentenced to death over anti-government protests last year, according to one of their lawyers. Babak Paknia told reporters that a request for a retrial had been accepted by the supreme court. The decision comes after a hashtag

India is the hardest-hit country with 1,078,782 cases, 26,838 deaths and 677,856 recoveries from coronavirus in Saarc regions at 15:20 pm till Sunday (Bangladesh Time), according to latest data from worldometer. Pakistan is the second worst-hit Saarc regions with 5,568 deaths and

It seems that China is following a double standard as far as environmental safety issues are concerned as despite earning applause for promising to make a clean environment, the dragons remain the highest producer of coal in the world. "While China – the world’s largest coal

The Chinese government is pressuring the families of soldiers who died in a violent border clash with India in June not to conduct burials and in-person funeral ceremonies in an attempt to cover up an episode that Beijing appears to consider a blunder, according to a U.S. intelligence

Geneva: Members of the Pashtun community gathered at Broken Chair in Geneva and demanded an investigation into the human rights violation committed against them by Pakistan. Life of Pashtun people on Pakistani grounds has never been an easy affair. Fight for basic human rights and

London's police force has suspended an officer pending an investigation after footage emerged of him kneeling on the side of a Black suspect's head and neck. Footage of the arrest in north London on Thursday shows two officers holding down the handcuffed man. At the

China appears to have failed to secure its "expansionism" beyond Pakistan and North Korea, neither of which has a viable alternative. Both Islamabad and Pyongyang -either willingly or unwillingly succumbed to China's tactics. "Yet today as the world stares at the inevitable and

Eight people have died in Thursday's two separate cases of building collapse in Mumbai, caused by heavy rain.  Rescue operations at the site of the building collapse in south Mumbai's Fort area continued this morning, with the death count touching six.  Four bodies were

India added a record number of Covid-19 cases - nearly 35,000 - in the last 24 hours, breaching the one million mark. It has the world's third-largest case load, after the US and Brazil - the only three countries so far to record more than a million coronavirus cases.

New York police identified a person of interest in the death of tech entrepreneur and Pathao co-founder Fahim Saleh, who was found decapitated and dismembered in his Manhattan apartment earlier this week, said police sources.  Police also said that the victim was tased before he was

There is another lockdown underway, forced by falling artillery shells rather than invading viruses. This one also requires frightening choices between bad options. Cross-border shelling between Pakistan and India has intensified in recent months along the Line of Control in Kashmir,

Kashmiri writer and intellectual Junaid Qureshi lambasted on the All Party Hurriyat Conference saying that it propagates the ideology and propaganda of Pakistan and never worked for the welfare of the Kashmiri people. While interacting with Dr Shabir Choudhary, a writer and political

Pakistan has restored the bank account of  Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief and 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafeez Saeed and five others, media reports said. The restoration of bank accounts has taken place following formal approval of the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security

China uses corrupt leaders of economically weak countries to make inroads into those nations- Nepal being a case in point, suggests a report in Global Watch Analysis. Roland Jacquard, the author of the article, explains that “this enables Chinese companies to not only further their