Karachi: Religious minorities in the Islamic state of Pakistan face a real and constant threat of extinction. Almost every day there are reports of Hindu, Sikh and Christian girls being abducted and forcefully converted to Islam as the Islamic...
Colombo: Sri Lanka will ban wearing of the burqa and shut more than a thousand Islamic schools, a government minister said, the latest actions affecting...
WASHINGTON: Vanita Gupta, President Joe Biden's nominee for the Justice Department's No. 3 post, expressed regret for her past "harsh rhetoric" and said...
Kampala: Kampala has called a crisis meeting over the deadlock between Uganda and Kenya, which saw Nairobi ban maize imports from the country. In an interview, Julius Maganda, the State minister for the East African Community (EAC) Affairs,...
New Delhi: The Election Commission ordered the removal of Vivek Sahay, West Bengal director of security, the suspension of Purba Medinipur SP Pravin Prakash...
New Delhi: Following recent tensions in ties, not least because of Sri Lanka’s decision to cancel an agreement with India and Japan for jointly developing...
Actress Priyanka Chopra and husband/singer Nick Jonas announced the nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards on Sunday, via a global livestream. The couple...
The Golden Globe Awards this year saw two important South Asian nominations – British-Indian actor Dev Patel, and British-Pakistani actor Riz Ahmed. While...
Beijing: With China's labour force shrinking under the impact of the now abandoned one-child policy, the world's second-largest economy is turning to machines to try to fill the gap. The working-age population - defined as those from 15 to 59...
The Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA) led by Congress in the Union territory of Puducherry finalised the seat-sharing pact for the assembly polls. As per the deal signed at the DMK headquarters in Chennai, Congress will contest in 15 seats,...