The principal human rights official of the United Nations has moved the Supreme Court, seeking to intervene as a friend of the court on a bunch of petitions challenging the Citizenship Amendment Act (...

In a huge diplomatic win for India, the United Nations on Wednesday designated Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist after China lifted its hold on a proposal to bla...

India is no longer a “developing” country, at least not according to the amended list published by the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). Classification of countries is commo...

The Asom Songrami Mancha, a new regional political party, has filed three petitions in the United Nations against the “contentious“ Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019, and termed it a “xenoph...

Muzaffarpur girl Shalini Prasad’s two documentaries have been selected for Global Youth Video Competition. The contest has been co-organised by UN Climate Change, Global Environment Facility’s sma...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday announced that India would raise its target for restoring degraded land from 21 million hectares to 26 million hectares by 2030.Speaking at the 14th session of t...

The Pakistani lawyer who helped free a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy said on Monday he had been forced to flee to the Netherlands for his life, and has no idea where his client is.L...

Political inertia has been one of the stumbling blocks on the path of global mitigatory action against climate change. Greta Thunberg’s denouncement of the passivity of heads of states — the young...

The US has asked Pakistan to swiftly enact a legislation that formally proscribes both Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF)It also criticised the recent removal ...

One by one, five to a grave, the coffins are buried in the red earth of this ill-kept corner of a South African cemetery. The scrawl on the cheap wood attests to their anonymity: “Unknown B/Male.”...