Hindu community leaders in the US have expressed disappointment over a decision by the city administration here of excluding Diwali from its list of school holidays
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6th Dec 2023 | Updated at 12:14am 6th Dec 2023
Kamala Shirin picked as US envoy to Indonesia
- 25 Oct 2023
WASHINGTON: Former State Department official Kamala Shirin Lakhdhir has been picked by President Joe Biden to serve as Ambassador to Indonesia. Kamala has served in the Department of State for almost 30 years, most recently as an executive secretary.
Sikh mayor in US receives death threats
- 25 Oct 2023
New Jersey: The first Sikh mayor in the US, Ravinder S Bhalla, claims to have received a string of death threats addressed to him and his family. Speaking to the media, he claimed that the letters he received in the mail initially requested...
No wish for revenge, Nawaz tells supporters on return
- 25 Oct 2023
Islamabad: Pakistan’s former three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif arrived home on Saturday, ending a four-year self-imposed exile in London and restarting his political journey ahead of the general elections with a huge rally at Minar-e-Pakistan...
Bilawal to attend SCO meet in Goa, India plays it down
- 26 Apr 2023
Pakistan's foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will attend SCO foreign ministers meet which India is hosting in Goa on May 5.The Indian administration didn't explicitly rule out a meeting between S Jaishankar and Bilawal, but it didn't seem...
Protesters rally in Bangladesh to demand fresh elections
- 14 Dec 2022
Tens of thousands of supporters of Bangladesh's largest opposition group have assembled in Dhaka to oppose the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina-led administration and call for fresh elections.
Temple, homes and shops of Hindus vandalised in Bangladesh
- 20 Jul 2022
Dhaka: A temple, shops and several houses of the Hindu community have been vandalised in southwestern Bangladesh by some unidentified people over a Facebook post allegedly belittling Islam, in the latest spate of violence targeting the religious...
PM Modi leads Yoga day event at United Nations
- 28 Jun 2023
Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the celebration of International Yoga Day at the United Nations in New York and urged people "to join hands together to realise the goal of one earth, one family, one future"
“NO BETTER ALLY THAN THE UK”
- 25 Nov 2020
Recently appointed Indian-American Chief of Staff to Acting Defence Secretary speaks about 9/11, Kashmir, safeguarding regional security in the Indian Ocean through the Quad and the UK-USA special relationship.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa calls for constitutional changes to curb minority parties
- 08 Jan 2020
Sri Lanka’s new president endorsed amending the constitution to reduce the power of minority political parties, saying the country wasn’t suited to a system that creates unstable governments “constantly under the influence of extremism”.
Trouble brewing in post-election Sri Lanka
- 11 Dec 2019
Weeks after the election of hardliner Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the president of Sri Lanka, the prospects for justice and reconciliation between the different communities on the island lie in tatters.
Nepal PM Prachanda likely to visit India next month
- 22 Mar 2023
Kathmandu: Nepal’s PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ is likely to travel to India on an official visit next month - his first foreign trip since assuming the office for the third time in December last year, a media report said.
Nepal ruling coalition bags 90 seats out of 165
- 07 Dec 2022
Kathmandu: The top leaders of Nepal’s five-party ruling coalition on Monday met at PM Sher Bahadur Deuba’s official residence to review the general elections and discuss the formation of a new government.
Three generations, three journeys
- 05 Sep 2022
Rakesh Patel, a 47-year-old commodity trader took a plunge to visit Greenland. Speaking to Asian Voice, he said, “Over a hundred years ago, our grandparents emigrated from India to Africa in search of a better life. In 1972, our parents had...
‘2024, MODI ONCE MORE’
- 04 May 2022
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a grand welcome by the diaspora in Germany, on his three-nation Europe trip.
A day after Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that Indian fishermen may be shot if they “intruded” into his country’s waters, India's external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj raised the matter with the Sri Lankan government...
Pakistan had about 120 atomic weapons, 10 more than India, in its nuclear arsenal last year, according to a new interactive infographic unveiled by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
For the first time the opening prayer for the Idaho state senate was said by a Hindu cleric amid protests by some senators who claimed the United States was a Christian nation and denounced Hinduism, local media reported.
A Sri Lankan court has banned the feared brother of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa from foreign travel, police said on Tuesday, over allegations he used a commercial floating armoury as weaponry for a "private army"
Official figures reveal that the number of British parents who choose foreign surrogates to have their children have risen.
Official figures reveal that the number of British parents who choose foreign surrogates to have their children have risen.
New reports suggest that Mohammed Emwazi, the Isis terrorist famously known as “Jihadi John” had kidnapped and ordered two schoolboys to strip to their underwear at gunpoint before abandoning them on the motorway.
The masked "Jihadi John" killer who fronted Islamic State beheading videos has been identified as Mohammed Emwazi, a British computer programming graduate...
Yet another Hindu temple in the US was vandalized, with several windows broken and the word “fear” painted on its wall. This is the second such incident in America's Washington state this month.
