03-10-2022 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BATHINDA: Secessionist group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) have released raw footage of “Khalistan-Pakistan Zindabad” and “Muslim-Sikh Bhai Bhai” slogans inscribed at Divisional Forest Office Bathinda, a stronghold of Aam Admi Party (AAP). The walls of the government office were also painted with slogans “Hindustan Murdabad” …

03-10-2022 OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso’s overthrown military chief agreed to step down two days after army officers announced his deposition in the country’s second coup in a year. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba “offered his resignation in order to avoid confrontations with serious human and material consequences”, according to a statement on Sunday …

02-10-2022 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ WASHINGTON: US Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday reminded top female Democrats of their duty to fight for reproductive rights and how electing two more Democratic senators in the upcoming midterm elections is critical to that fight. “If there were ever any reason …

02-10-2022 CARACAS: Venezuela freed seven Americans in exchange for the release of two nephews of President Nicholas Maduro’s wife jailed for years by the United States on drug smuggling convictions. The swap of the Americans on Saturday, including five oil executives held for nearly five years, is the largest trade …

02-10-2022 FLORIDA: Rescuers searched for survivors among the ruins of Florida’s flooded homes from Hurricane Ian while authorities in South Carolina began assessing damage from its strike. Now weakened to a post-tropical cyclone, Ian was expected to move across central North Carolina on Saturday then move into Virginia and New …

02-10-2022 JAKARTA: Indonesian police say at least 129 people have been killed and dozens injured after a stampede at a football match in the province of East Java. In a statement on Sunday, police said supporters of Arema FC stormed the pitch at the Kanjuruhan stadium in the eastern city …

01-10-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report TEHRAN/ ZAHEDAN/ QUETTA: An attack by armed separatists belong with Daesh (ISIS/ ISIL also known as hostile Taliban) on a police station in a southeastern city killed 19 people, including four members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps. The assailants in Friday’s attack …

01-10-2022 ADDIS ABABA/ OUAGADOUGOU: The African Union Chief Moussa Faki Mahamat has condemned the “unconstitutional change of government” in Burkina Faso after the second coup in less than a year in which a group of junior army officers removed military ruler Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba. “The chairperson calls upon the military …

01-10-2022 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies KABUL/ ISLAMABAD UNITED NATIONS: The martyrdom toll from a suicide bombing at an education centre in the Afghan capital has risen to 44, according to the United Nations mission to the country, as women reportedly took to the streets to protest …

01-10-2022 MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed treaties on Friday to annex four Ukrainian regions partly occupied by his forces, escalating his seven-month war and taking it into an unpredictable new phase. “This is the will of millions of people,” he said in a speech before hundreds of dignitaries in …