Karachi: Three people were killed and two others injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire in a Pashtun-dominated area of Pakistan's Balochistan province, police said. The killings took place late Saturday in the Masezai area of the Killa Abdullah district. The area is socially and culturally...
Taipei(Taiwan): Taiwan's coast guard accused China of harassment after a Chinese vessel entered restricted waters near a disputed coral island administered by Taiwan in the South China Sea. China claims democratically ruled Taiwan as its own breakaway province and has not ruled out the use...
Hanoi: National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval arrived in Hanoi Sunday on an official visit during which he will meet the Vietnamese leadership in line with the India-Vietnam Enhanced Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. India and Vietnam elevated bilateral relations to an Enhanced Comprehensive Strategic Partnership during...
Dhaka: At least 15 people have been killed in mob beatings in Bangladesh in October alone, highlighting the continuing failure of repeated government assurances to curb such violence, according to a recent report by a leading Bangladeshi newspaper. In an opinion article examining the persistence...
Kathmandu: Six Indian tourists, including two women, have been stranded in the Shey-Phoksundo National Park area of Nepal since Saturday afternoon due to heavy snowfall, with security personnel mobilised and efforts underway to rescue them, officials said Sunday. The tourists had gone to the Dho...
New York: The theft of billions of dollars from Binance within a matter of minutes, the biggest crypto heist in history, was orchestrated by North Korean hackers, the FBI has said. The bureau said in a statement Saturday that this week's attack was tied to...
Washington/Atlanta: US President Donald Trump said that he would invite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the G20 summit, hours after Secretary of State Marco Rubio left open the possibility of his participation in the December gathering in Florida. The development followed questions in Atlanta about...
Washington: US President Donald Trump Saturday named Pickaxe Mountain as an Iranian site that needed to be dealt with, while saying negotiations with Tehran were progressing and leaving open whether diplomacy would produce an agreement. Speaking to reporters in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said there...
Cape Canaveral: An aging NASA telescope is barely clinging to space after a failed rescue effort left it tottering lower and lower. The US Space Force predicts the Swift Observatory will come crashing down on or around Friday. Most of the 1 ½-ton telescope is...
Chernihiv Region(Ukraine): Evacuees from Russian-occupied Oleshky in Ukraine arrived in Belarus Saturday on their way back to Ukraine, part of a major rescue operation carried out under the most significant truce since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine 4½ years ago. The ceasefire in Ukraine's southern...
The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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