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India10:30 GMT 29.09.2020Get short URLHuman rights organisation Amnesty International has come under the scanner of Indian investigative agencies, which have also conducted raids on their offices in various states over alleged violations of foreign funding norms.Mentioning the "incessant witch-hunt of human rights organisations" in India by the Prime Minister ...

#Pakistan News India has frozen the rights group's bank accounts, forcing it to let go of staff and pause all ongoing campaign and research work. In this August 24, 2016 file photo, members and activists of India's governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) protests against Amnesty International in Bangalore, India. ...

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday paid tributes to freedom fighter Bhagat Singh on his 113th birth anniversary. Shaheed Bhagat Singh (Photo: ANI)Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday paid tributes to freedom fighter Bhagat Singh on his ...

Despite having a free hand for nearly a year to politically turn around Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian government continues to lose the support of local populations even as the India-China military stand-off continues in Ladakh. If Farooq Abdullah is to be believed, Kashmiris are so angry ...

NEW DELHI: An assurance that India will use its vaccine production and delivery capacities for the benefit of the entire world, a strong pitch for UN reforms and a subtle message to China — that India's friendship with any country is not targeted at a third country — formed ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) oldest ally in Punjab and at the national level, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has quit the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) over the Narendra Modi government’s controversial farm Bills. SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal made this announcement after holding a core ...

Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal. (Photo: AFP)A week after it walked out of the Narendra Modi government, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Saturday decided to quit the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) over the three farm bills that it says are not in the interest of ...

India as the world’s biggest vaccine maker will use its resources “for all humanity” in the battle against coronavirus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the United Nations on Saturday.In his address to the virtual UN General Assembly Modi made no direct mention of climate change or of India’s current ...

The UN General Assembly this year is largely being held online due to the coronavirus pandemic. Majority of world leaders are delivering pre-recorded speeches at the summit in New York. Some of the priority issues for India at the ongoing 75th session of UN General Assembly will be to ...