22-03-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: The annual US report on human rights practices released on Monday listed “significant human rights issues” and abuses in India, including reported targeting of religious minorities, dissidents and journalists, the US State Department said. The findings come nearly a year after Secretary …

22-03-2023 PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron will give a televised interview, his office said on Tuesday, after his government fended off two no-confidence votes in parliament over a controversial pension’s overhaul that has sparked mass protests. Macron’s government used a constitutional measure to adopt the reform, which pushes back the …

22-03-2023 JERUSALEM/ DUBAI: The Palestinian Authority, Egypt and Jordan have condemned as “racist” a firebrand Israeli minister’s remarks denying the existence of the Palestinian people, with Amman summoning Israel’s ambassador for a rebuke. Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is part of veteran leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-right government that took …

22-03-2023 PENNSYLVANIA/ COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will get the first $330m tranche of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout package in the next two days, says the global lender, putting the onus on the cash-strapped country to rein in its debt to sustainable levels. Economic mismanagement, coupled with the effects of …

22-03-2023 RIYADH: A US citizen jailed in Saudi Arabia for posting criticism of the kingdom’s government on Twitter has been released from prison, but remains banned from travelling, according to his son. Saad Ibrahim Almadi, 72, was jailed for 16 years by a criminal court in 2022 before an appeals …

New delhi ‘Mar ’21 ‘2023-President Droupadi Murmu has greeted citizens on the eve of Chaitra Sukladi, Ugadi, Gudi Padwa, Cheti Chand, Navreh and Sajibu Cheiraoba. In a message, the President said, these festivals, which are celebrated on the arrival of the Indian New Year, are symbols of faith and carriers …

New Delhi ‘Mar ’21 ‘2023-Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the new International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Area office and Innovation Centre in India in New Delhi on Wednesday (22 March 2023). ITU is the United Nations specialised agency for information and communication technologies and its Headquarters is in Geneva. India …

New Delhi,Mar 21 2023-Central Bureau of Investigation, CBI has said that its Global Operations Centre continues to closely monitor movements of wanted criminals like Mehul Choksi in close coordination with foreign law enforcement agencies. It said that CBI is not reliant only on INTERPOL channels. The agency said, extradition request …

Chandigarh’Mar 21 2023-Explaining how fugitive and Khalistan ideologue Amritpal Singh is still absconding while over 150 people have been arrested in connection with the March 18 crackdown, Punjab Police Inspector General Sukhchain Singh Gill said here on Tuesday that he escaped by changing clothes in a gurdwara and fled on …

New Delhi’mar’21 2023-The BJP is the world’s most important foreign political party and it may also be the least understood, according to an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal authored by Walter Russell Mead. “India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is, from the standpoint of American national interests, the most …