SRINAGAR, India – A lockdown in Indian-administered Kashmir has cost its economy more than $2.4 billion since the government stripped it of its special status, officials of the Himalayan region’s main trade organisation said on Wednesday. “In the last 120 days we have witnessed how each and every […]
NEW DELHI – India’s top court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal against the death penalty by one of four men convicted of gang-raping and murdering a woman on a bus in New Delhi, saying it found no reason to review the sentence. Four men were convicted of the […]
NEW DELHI: – India’s Supreme Court turned down a plea on Wednesday to stop the implementation of a new citizenship law based on religion that has set off violent protests in the country, but said it would hold hearings next month on the sweeping measure. The Citizenship Amendment […]
Jammu, Dec 18: Lawyers of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court and its subordinate courts across Jammu region resumed work on Wednesday after over 40-day strike, officials said. The lawyers, affiliated with the Jammu chapter of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association, went on an indefinite strike […]
New Delhi, Dec 18: Protest against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens outside Jamia Millia Islamia University here entered third day on Wednesday. The protesters, including students and local residents, hung a large map of India outside the varsity gate number 7 showing […]
Kolkata, Dec 18: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hit the streets for the third consecutive day against the amended citizenship law and NRC. TMC supremo Banerjee, along with her party colleagues, began a protest march from Howrah Maidan which will culminate at Dorina Crossing at Esplanade […]
New Delhi, Dec 17: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Wednesday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his Pakistan citizenship jibe at the main opposition party. He was responding to the challenge posed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the opposition to publicly declare that they are […]
Every year brings an avalanche of lists about pop culture — best films, best books, best albums. Attempting to define a decade in the world of entertainment is, at best, daunting. But hey, we are going to give it a try. Here are some of the key trends […]
A group of Muslim women who formed a barricade around a male student being attacked by baton-swinging police have become symbols of the protests currently gripping India. In a video that has gone viral, the four young women rush to surround the young man as police in riot […]
Forty-nine journalists were killed across the world in 2019, Reporters Without Borders said Tuesday, the lowest death toll in 16 years. The “historically low” number mostly died covering conflicts in Yemen, Syria and Afghanistan, the Paris-based watchdog said, which warned that “journalism remains a dangerous profession”. Some 80 […]
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