Afghanistan

Pompeo condemns China’s Xinjiang crackdown during Central Asia tour

3:24 pm February 2, 2020

Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan): US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on countries to offer asylum to ethnic minorities fleeing China’s troubled Xinjiang region during a visit Sunday to oil-rich Kazakhstan — a country that borders the region. “We ask simply for them to provide safe refuge and asylum for those seeking to flee China,” Pompeo said […]

Plane crashes in eastern Afghanistan: officials

8:09 pm January 27, 2020

Ghazni (Afghanistan): A plane crashed in eastern Afghanistan’s Ghazni province Monday, officials said, but it was not immediately clear how many people were on board, or if it was a passenger or military jet. “At around 1:10 pm (0840 GMT) a plane crashed in Deh Yak district of Ghazni province. The plane is on fire […]

Amit Shah in Tamil Nadu and Kerala on Sunday

Voting for BJP will prevent thousands of incidents like Shaheen Bagh, says Shah in Delhi

11:03 pm January 26, 2020

New Delhi: Voting for the BJP in Delhi polls will prevent “thousands of incidents like Shaheen Bagh”, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said at an election meeting on Sunday. Shah attacked the opposition leaders including AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on various issues and asserted that only Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]

US stresses equal protection under India’s new citizenship law

7:47 pm January 25, 2020

Washington: Amid protests over the Citizenship Amendment Act in India, a top American diplomat has underscored the importance of the principle of equal protection under the law. Acting Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Alice Wells, who has just returned from a trip to the region besides attending the Raisina Dialogue in […]

Brazil's Bolsonaro rejects COVID-19 shot, calls masks taboo

‘Dynamic democracy’ India will solve ‘internal matter’ CAA, Kashmir: Brazil

7:25 pm January 23, 2020

New Delhi: The amended citizenship law and the situation in Kashmir are internal issues of India and the country with its dynamic democracy will find solutions to these “challenges”, Brazilian envoy Andre Aranha Correa do Lago said on Thursday. The envoy told PTI in an interview that his country was following developments on the two […]