India’s Modi opens controversial Hindu temple in Ayodhya in grand event ahead of elections
Millions of Indians watched the ceremony on television, with news channels running non-stop coverage of the event, portrayed as a religious spectacle.
US’ CIA uncovers how Islamic State’s Afghanistan branch planned and carried out Iran blasts
ISIS on Thursday claimed responsibility for the bombings, saying two operatives wearing explosive suicide belts staged the attack during a memorial service for Qassem Soleimani, a senior military commander assassinated in Iraq in a 2020 US drone strike.
Japan quake: 3,000 crew of army firefighters and police rescuers rush to reach survivors
Authorities have confirmed 48 deaths so far, all in Ishikawa prefecture, NHK reported. Many of those are in Wajima, another hard-hit city on the remote northern tip of the Noto Peninsula.
South Korean opposition leader Jae-myung stabbed in the neck by knife-wielding attacker
President Yoon Suk Yeol expressed deep concern about Lee’s health and ordered authorities to investigate the attack, saying such violence would not be tolerated, according to Yoon’s office.
Japan Meteorological Agency issues tsunami warning as powerful earthquake strikes central region
More strong quakes in the area, where seismic activity has been simmering for more than three years, could occur over coming days, JMA official Toshihiro Shimoyama said. In comments to the press shortly after the quake struck, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida also warned residents to prepare for more disasters.
How Indian state-funded Research and Analysis Wing criminal gang has infiltrated US, Canada and Europe
ikh diaspora activists have alleged Indian government involvement in the mysterious deaths of other dissidents, including, most recently, a 35-year-old British citizen named Avtar Singh Khanda, who died this year in what his family claims to be a case of poisoning.
Revealed: How India plans, carries out sophisticated scheme to kill exiled Sikh separatists
The document instructs officials at its consulates to cooperate with Indian intelligence agencies to confront the groups Sikhs for Justice, Babbar Khalsa International, Sikh Youth of America, Sikh Coordination Committee East Coast, World Sikh Parliament, and Shiromani Akali Dal Amritsar America. It suggests that Nijjar and several other “suspects” are affiliated with one of these groups, Babbar Khalsa International. Babbar Khalsa International is proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the US and Canada, but the other organisations named in the document are considered legal in both countries
11 climbers killed, 49 evacuated and 12 missing as Indonesia volcano erupts, search suspended
This year, it erupted between January and February and was spewing ash around 75 metres-1,000 metres from the peak. Indonesia sits on the Pacific’s so-called “Ring of Fire” and has 127 active volcanoes, according to the volcanology agency.
27-year-old Indonesian police officer becomes youngest ever woman to be honoured with top UN award
Rismayanti is a crime database officer with the UN mission MINUSCA. She, a statement has it, helped conceptualise and develop a criminal database that enables UN police to map and analyse crime and disorder hotspots.
Air pollution in Indian capital New Delhi turns ‘severe’ and authorities order schools shut
People in New Delhi woke up to a thick layer of toxic haze on Friday and some schools were ordered to shut for two days as the air quality index (AQI) entered the “severe” category in several parts of the Indian capital. A filthy smog forms over Delhi every winter...
