Kolkata: The police officer in charge of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's security when she was injured during a visit to the state's Nandigram, just weeks before the elections, has been suspended by the Election Commission. "Vivek Sahay IPS, Director Security

The Metropolitan Police's handling of a vigil in south London to mourn Sarah Everard has been widely criticised from across the political spectrum. Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey called for Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick to resign over the "utterly disgraceful"

Four people died and two more were injured after a military plane crashed while trying to land in Kazakhstan’s largest city Almaty, authorities said. “According to preliminary data, four people died, and two injured were sent to the nearest hospital,” the emergencies

Emboldened by its cost-free expansion in the South China Sea, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s regime has stepped up efforts to replicate that model in the Himalayas. In particular, China is aggressively building many new villages in disputed borderlands to extend or consolidate its

Emboldened by its cost-free expansion in the South China Sea, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s regime has stepped up efforts to replicate that model in the Himalayas. In particular, China is aggressively building many new villages in disputed borderlands to extend or consolidate its

MINNEAPOLIS – City leaders approved a $27 million settlement Friday with the family of George Floyd in a wrongful death lawsuit over his death in police custody that spurred protests worldwide and a national reckoning on racial justice. The Minneapolis City Council unanimously

Brussels: Senior European Union leaders have agreed to target China with sanctions over its human rights abuses, blacklisting four people and one entity in Xinjiang, according to several diplomats. The EU will be imposing sanctions on Chinese officials for the first time since the

New Delhi: European Union (EU) Ambassador to India Ugo Astuto — who has twice been to Kashmir as part of the foreign envoys’ visit after the scrapping of Article 370 — said the people in the Valley are now looking towards the “organisation” of the legislative

At least three anti-coup protesters were killed overnight in Myanmar's largest city Saturday, as hundreds defied a curfew to hold vigils in honour of those killed since the military seized power. The junta has deployed increasing use of force against daily protests since the

Washington: The US on Tuesday (local-time) emphasised that the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) is a grouping of important friends and allies of Washington that is predicated on shared interests, ahead of first-ever leader level meet scheduled on coming Friday. Replying to a

New Delhi: Amid crackdown on illegal residents in the country the Union Home Ministry in a written reply in Rajya Sabha informed the house that more than 3,000 people were apprehended trying to illegally enter into India in past two years. The MHA said: "116 nationals from

New Delhi: Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she was attacked today while in Nandigram, where she had gone to file her nomination for the coming elections. The Chief Minister said she was attacked by four or five people at a time when there was no police officer around her.

Police officers from Myanmar have told the BBC they fled across the border into India after refusing to carry out the orders of the military which seized power in a coup last month. In some of the first such interviews, more than a dozen defectors told us they escaped, fearing they'd

Geneva: An exiled Kashmiri leader has lambasted Islamabad for using Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit Baltistan as its colonies for over seven decades and exploiting its natural resources. Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri, the chairman of the United Kashmir People's National

New Delhi: Ahead of Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) head of states meet, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga had a telephonic conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier today. The conversation lasted for forty minutes. The two leaders shared the recognition that

London: India on Tuesday called the UK Westminster discussion on press freedom and farmers' stir as "one-sided and based on false assertions". The High Commission of India asserted that the question of lack of press freedom in India does not arise as the foreign media,

The ceasefire that India and Pakistan announced through their first joint statement in several years on 22 February gave the impression of having come out of the blue. But that is exactly how it should have been, given the highly charged emotions that prevail in the two countries

GENEVA: At least a dozen people and possibly up to 23 have been killed in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province where Revolutionary Guards and security forces have used lethal force against fuel couriers from ethnic minorities and protesters, the United Nations said on Friday. Iran

People gathered outside the Chinese Consulate in Vancouver on March 7 to protest against China on several issues. The protest was organized by 'Friends of Canada India' along with Canada Tibet Canada, East Turkistan Association of Canada, Friends of Canada India Organization,

Dozens of Myanmar protesters who had been cornered overnight by security forces in Yangon have escaped from the area where they were trapped. About 200 people were caught in a four-street area in Sanchaung district which the police sealed off. At least 40 people were arrested and