- Monday, March 31, 2025
Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi on Monday (11) urged European governments to protect the children of their citizens who went to live under the Islamic State group, days after the death of a baby born to a London teenager in a Syrian refugee camp. Britain's conservative government has faced…
A grenade explosion orchestrated by a Pakistan-based militant group at a bus stand in the Indian city of Jammu killed one person and wounded at least 32 on Thursday (7), police said. The blast came three weeks after an attack by another Pakistan-based group killed 40 Indian paramilitary police in…
India wants to keep buying Iranian oil at its current level of about 300,000 barrels per day (bpd), as it negotiates with the Washington about extending a sanctions waiver past early May, two sources in India with knowledge of the matter said. India has reduced its purchases of Iranian oil…
Some 18 months after been rescued from stone-throwing children, an Indian street mutt has emerged top dog in an elite bomb- and drug-sniffing squad. "Asha" -meaning "hope" in Hindi was rescued by West Bengal police when they found her being mistreated outside their training facility. "The dog was bleeding when…
A Pakistani delegation will visit New Delhi on March 14, and then host a reciprocal Indian visit in Islamabad, to discuss a draft agreement on a Sikh pilgrimage corridor, Pakistan said on Tuesday (5), indicating that bilateral tensions were easing. The Kartarpur corridor, which will officially open next year, is…
The US said on Sunday (3) it was trying to find out if Pakistan used US-built F-16 jets to down an Indian warplane, potentially in violation of the US agreements, as the stand-off between the nuclear-armed Asian neighbours appeared to be easing. Pakistan and India both carried out aerial bombing…
A flare up between India and Pakistan appeared to be easing on Saturday (2) after Islamabad handed back a captured Indian pilot, amid efforts by global powers to prevent a war between the neighbours. Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, who became the face and symbol of the biggest clash between India…
On a busy day, contract employees in India monitoring nudity and pornography on Facebook and Instagram will each view 2,000 posts in an eight-hour shift, or almost four a minute. They are part of a 1,600-member team at Genpact, an outsourcing firm with offices in the southern Indian city of…
Pakistan has closed its airspace, a European air traffic control agency said on Wednesday (27), amid rising tensions and military activity between Pakistan and India. Brussels-based Eurocontrol, which cordinates the airspace of 41 nations, told airlines in a bulletin that Pakistan's airspace was closed "with immediate effect". Pakistani officials earlier…
Indian jets conducted air strikes against a militant camp in Pakistani Occupied Kashmir (POK) on Tuesday (26), India's foreign secretary said, and a Indian government source said 300 militants had been killed, but Pakistan denied there had been any casualties. The airstrikes hit a training camp of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), the…
