Jul 18, 2019 India’s lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 will be launched on the 22nd of this month. The national space agency ISRO has announced that it will be launched onboard the booster GSLV Mark-Three on Monday, at 2:43 pm from the spaceport at Sriharikota. Originally Chandrayaan-2 was scheduled to be launched …

Jul 18, 2019 , India has called upon Pakistan to release and repatriate its national Kulbhushan Jadhav following International Court of Justice’s judgment. Making a statement in the Rajya Sabha, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said the ICJ’s judgment is not only a  vindication for India and Jadhav but for …

18 July, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies BEIRUT/ BEIJING: Last week, 22 mostly Western countries launched the world’s first major collective challenge to China’s crackdown on Uyghur Muslims and other minorities. In a joint statement to the High Commissioner of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, the nations criticized Beijing for what …

18 July, 2019 By Aurangzeb Alamgir It is said that “economic growth doesn’t mean anything if it leaves people out.” The above mentioned quote seems pretty much true because there is no growth without deprived human development sector and it is the dilemma of third world that artificial boom in …

18 July, 2019 By SJA Jafri + BBC NEW DELHI: As many as 23 teenagers in the southern Indian state of Telangana have killed themselves since their school-leaving exam results were announced in April. BBC Telugu’s Deepthi Bathini explains why the results have become controversial. Thota Vennela enjoyed cooking, watching …

18 July, 2019 MEXICO/ NEW YORK: A US judge has sentenced Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán to life in prison plus 30 years. Guzmán, 62, was found guilty of 10 charges, including drug trafficking and money laundering, by a federal court in New York in February. He escaped …

17 July, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies HAGUE/ ISLAMABAD: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has asked Pakistan to review its order of death sentence awarded to Kulbhushan Jadhav, on charges of espionage and conspiracy against Pakistan. As the ICJ put the death sentence of Kulbhushan Jadhav on hold, …

17 July, 2019 WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives has voted to condemn President Donald Trump after a series of attacks aimed at four congresswomen. The symbolic resolution denounced Mr Trump’s “racist comments that have legitimized fear and hatred of New Americans and people of color”. Trump had been accused …

17 July, 2019 By SJA Jafri + Agencies CANBERRA/ BEIJING: The Australian government has called on China to allow an ethnic Uighur mother and son to leave the country, following a public plea from the child’s father. Rights groups say China is holding about a million Uighurs and other Muslims …

17-07-2019 TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: In a marked sign of a potential change in Iran’s policy, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the country’s missile program could be a topic for negotiation with the United States. The unprecedented remarks contradict previous statements by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who on various occasions …