Ayodhya, India – Ayodhya and its twin city Faizabad in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) are in a state of heightened anxiety as the country’s top court is expected to deliver its verdict in the seven decades old legal dispute over a spot of land that Muslims and Hindus both[…]
India and Pakistan blamed one another for cross-border shelling in the disputed Kashmir region which killed and injured soldiers and civilians on both sides and made it one of the deadliest days since New Delhi revoked Kashmir’s special status in August. Officials from the two countries accused each other’s militaries of[…]
A 3-year-old child survived a fall from 10-meter-high balcony in India, suffering no injuries whatsoever, after it landed onto the back seat of rickshaw, which by a remarkable coincidence was passing right below that exact moment. The incident in Tikamgarh district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh was caught[…]
CLICK HERE TO WATCH Five days of torrential downpour in India have left at least 148 people dead, as record monsoon rains create the worst flooding conditions the country has seen in decades. The bulk of the fatalities were reported in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where 111 are[…]
Two-thirds of people who commented on a plan to erect a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Cape Town objected – but the city council is going ahead anyway. One of the objectors, who said the Indian nationalist leader was “a person who expressed extreme racial views against black people”, said[…]
The Muslim Judicial Council of South Africa (MJC) says while it condemns India’s recent occupation of Kashmir in the strongest terms, the challenges faced by the people of Kashmir today are merely another chapter in its long history of imperial oppression, which pre-dates 1947. The MJC is expected to engage[…]
New Delhi, India – McDonald’s has faced boycott calls in India from right-wing Hindus after the global fast-food chain said its outlets served halal meat. The controversy erupted after McDonald’s India said on Twitter that all its restaurants are halal certified. “All our restaurants have HALAL certificates. You can ask the[…]
India, Pakistan, Turkey, Russia or even Iran must shoulder the burden of fighting “terrorists” in Afghanistan, President Trump has declared, insisting it would be ‘unfair’ if the US spends another 19 years cleaning up its mess. “Look, India is right there. They are not fighting it. We are fighting it,”[…]
Five Indian soldiers and three Pakistani troops were killed in an exchange of gunfire across the de facto border of the disputed Kashmir region, the Pakistani Army claimed in a statement. The chief spokesman, Major General Asif Ghafoor, said in a tweet that the Indian troops had “increased fire” along the LOC,[…]
The Indian government has revoked the special status of Indian-administered Kashmir in its constitution, the most far-reaching political move on the disputed region in nearly 70 years. A presidential decree issued on August 5 revoked Article 370 of India’s constitution that guaranteed special rights to the Muslim-majority state, including the right to its own[…]
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