India says OIC criticism of BJP leaders’ offensive remarks on Prophet “narrow-minded”

India today termed the comments by Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) as “unwarranted and narrow-minded”. OIC was reacting to offensive remarks by two BJP leaders against Islam. India asked OIC to “stop pursuing its communal approach.”
6 June 2022, 09:44 AM

“Promoting rape culture”: Indian ad raises social media storm

India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has asked YouTube and Twitter to take down two advertisements of a body spray which sparked widespread uproar for “promoting rape culture”.
6 June 2022, 09:14 AM

India’s NIA files chargesheet against 6 for trafficking Bangladeshi, Rohingya women

India’s top counter-terror body, National Investigation Agency (NIA), yesterday (June 5, 2022) filed a chargesheet before a special court in Guwahati against six Indians for their alleged involvement in the trafficking of Rohingya and Bangladeshi women into India.
6 June 2022, 06:57 AM

25 killed in Uttarakhand as bus plunges into deep gorge

At least 25 pilgrims were killed and three critically injured today as a bus carrying them fell into a deep gorge on the way to a temple in Uttarkashi district of India’s Uttarakhand state, officials said.
5 June 2022, 18:45 PM

North Korea fires ‘8 ballistic missiles’

North Korea launched eight ballistic missiles from multiple locations yesterday, South Korea’s military said, a day after Seoul and Washington completed their first joint drills involving a US aircraft carrier in more than four years.
5 June 2022, 18:00 PM

59 Rohingyas found abandoned on Thai island

Fifty-nine Rohingya people have been discovered on a Thai island, saying they were abandoned by traffickers en route to Malaysia, a police officer said yesterday.
5 June 2022, 18:00 PM

Offensive tweets on Prophet don't reflect govt's view: India tells Qatar

Qatar today summoned Indian Ambassador Deepak Mittal and handed him an official note, expressing total condemnation of the controversial remarks made by a now-suspended BJP leader against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
5 June 2022, 15:40 PM

Pakistan's GDP growth will slow down to 5%

Pakistan GDP growth will slow to 5% for the upcoming fiscal year beginning on July 1, from 5.9% in the outgoing year, following budgetary tightening aimed at winning International Monetary Fund (IMF) support, the government said on Saturday.
5 June 2022, 12:46 PM

Sri Lanka in diplomatic spat over confiscated Russian plane

Sri Lanka’s main airport yesterday denied the island nation’s government was behind a decision to detain an Aeroflot aircraft, after Russia lodged a diplomatic protest over the move.
4 June 2022, 18:00 PM

Junta troops ‘burnt down hundreds of houses’

Myanmar junta troops have torched hundreds of buildings during a three-day raid in the country’s north, local media and residents said, as the military struggles to crush resistance to its rule.
4 June 2022, 18:00 PM

Blast at India chemical factory kills at least 10

At least ten people were killed and 22 injured in an explosion at a chemical factory in northern India’s Hapur district yesterday, a police official said.
4 June 2022, 18:00 PM

Hong Kong drives memories underground

Hong Kong authorities yesterday detained multiple people as they pounced on any attempt at public commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, as China vies to remove all reminders of the deadly event.
4 June 2022, 18:00 PM

At least 10 killed in chemical factory fire near Delhi

At least 10 people were killed and 22 injured in a chemicals explosion at an electronics factory in northern India's Hapur district on Saturday, a police official said.
4 June 2022, 17:03 PM

5 boys “from influential families” rape teenager in Hyderabad

One person has been arrested in connection with the gang-rape of a 17-year-old girl inside a car last week in Hyderabad, NDTV reports quoting Indian police.
4 June 2022, 05:55 AM

China to launch new crewed mission to build space station

China will launch a spacecraft on Sunday carrying three astronauts to the core module of the unfinished Chinese space station, where they will work and live for six months as construction enters advanced stages.
4 June 2022, 03:33 AM

Pak Taliban declares indefinite ceasefire

The Pakistani Taliban on Thursday declared an indefinite ceasefire with Islamabad, saying “substantial progress” had been made in peace talks in the Afghan capital. The TTP is a home-grown movement but shares roots with the Afghan Taliban, who Pakistan has claimed lets its fighters to stage assaults from Afghan soil.
3 June 2022, 18:00 PM

India hits back at ‘biased’ US

India yesterday defended its record on religious tolerance and rebuked the United States for its own rights issues after a report accused Indian officials of supporting attacks on minority worshippers.
3 June 2022, 18:00 PM

‘Turkiye’, not Turkey

Turkey has told the United Nations that, at the behest of its president, it wishes from now on to be called “Turkiye” in all languages, the UN announced Thursday.
3 June 2022, 18:00 PM

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka seeks UN help on food shortages

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is seeking urgent United Nations help to build a stockpile of essential foods, the prime minister’s office said yesterday, after authorities warned of looming starvation.
3 June 2022, 18:00 PM

Bangladeshi boy injured by BSF stun grenade wants to return home

A 10-year-old Bangladeshi boy, undergoing treatment at an Indian hospital for injuries from a stun grenade hurled by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF), has made desperate pleas to return to his parents in Bangladesh.
3 June 2022, 16:01 PM