SRINAGAR, Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – The newly elected government in the Indian-occupied Muslim majority territory of Kashmir has passed a resolution asking India to restore the disputed region’s special autonomous status that was scrapped in 2019 by the ruling Hindu nationalist government. More than 50 members of the 90-member le...
India’s Adani Group has halved its electricity supply to Bangladesh. This reduction comes as Bangladesh grapples with power shortages, prompting efforts to bridge the gap by activating additional power plants, according to Rezaul Karim, chairman of the Bangladesh Power Development Board. The Godda coal-fired power plant in the Indian province...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Though thousands of miles away, the residents of a small village Thulasendrapuram in Tamil Nadu, southern India, gathered to pray for the victory of US Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s election. This village is where her maternal grandfather was born, and although Kamala Harris has never visited and has no ...
India has lodged a protest after Canada linked Indian Home Minister Amit Shah to plots targeting the Sikh community on Canadian soil. Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal said on Saturday that a representative of the Canadian High Commission was summoned on Friday and handed a note. Jaiswal said the note conveyed that the Indian [...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – A resolution seeking the restoration of political autonomy for Indian-occupied Kashmir, which was scrapped by the Hindu-nationalist Indian government in 2019, fell through in the first session of the region’s newly elected assembly. The resolution tabled by Waheed Parra, a member of the People’s Democra...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A criminal case has been filed at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 69 associates, accusing them of crimes against humanity during the uprising in July and August this year. The complaint, filed on Oct. 28, seeks an independent investigation into al...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tweeted support for minorities in Bangladesh, and promised to build strong ties with India this week. He wrote on social media platform X: “I strongly condemn the barbaric violence against Hindus, Christians, and other minorities who are getting attacked and looted by mobs in Bangladesh, w...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Five school children were among the seven people killed in a blast that hit a police van guarding a polio team in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, police said. The incident, which also injured 17 others, including four policemen, took place in the Mastung district of Balochistan province. “Terrorists targeted our p...
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has accused jail authorities of mistreatment, claiming he is being treated “worse than animals.” Khan said he was tortured by being confined in a cage, where electricity to his cell was shut off for five days, “leaving me in complete darkness”. He also alleged he was confined to the [&he...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A national court in Bangladesh on Sunday issued arrest warrants for 17 police officers, including the former Dhaka Metropolitan Police chief, on charges of mass killing and crimes against humanity. The International Crimes Tribunal stated that it found prima facie evidence of genocide against all the accused offi...
