An international arbitration tribunal on Tuesday ruled against China's claims to rights in the South China Sea, backing a case brought in by the Philippines. Beijing has trashed the ruling as "null and void"....
The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Centre on a plea that Jammu and Kashmir's majority population -- Muslims -- should not be allowed to reap the benefits of the Central schemes for the welfare of minorities. Notice was also issued to the Jammu and Kashmir state and the National Minorities Commission. The bench ...
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi has called on secular parties to unite to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Gandhi told a gathering of leaders of different parties and Muslim groups here that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the RSS were dividing the country both on religious and caste lines. "It is easy to divide the people but rather dif...
A little-known political party has put up banners in 13 Pakistani cities urging Army chief General Raheel Sharif to impose martial law and form a government of technocrats. The banners have been unveiled in Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Sargodha and Hyderabad among other cities, media reports said on Tuesday. Accord...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday chaired a high-level meeting to review the law and order situation in Jammu and Kashmir. "The Prime Minister is chairing a high level meeting on the situation in Kashmir," the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) posted on Twitter. Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Defence Minister Manohar Par...
The mastermind behind the December 2014 massacre at Peshawar's Army Public School, has been killed in a US drone strike in Afghanistan senior Pakistani security officials claimed. The officials told Dawn on Monday that Umar Mansour was killed, along with another militant leader Qari Saifullah, in the US drone attack in the Bandar ...
British Home Secretary Theresa May on Monday was confirmed as the new leader of the Conservative Party with "immediate effect" and set to succeed David Cameroon as Prime Minister of Britain on Wednesday....
Amid recurring clashes in curfew-bound Kashmir Valley, three injured protesters died in hospitals here on Monday, taking the death toll to 32 in three days of bloodshed following the killing of a top militant that has sparked fresh India-Pakistan tensions....
Former Gujarat BJP MLA Yatin Oza, who was once close to BJP President Amit Shah, has alleged that Shah had a secret pact with AIMIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi ahead of the Bihar polls last year....
The Kasargode police on Monday registered nine 'missing persons' complaints and formed a 27 member team led by a Deputy Superintendent of Police to look into the case of 17 persons said to ...
